On February 5, Beijing time, the Japanese Table Tennis T League continued, and Makoto Yoshimura, who had worked with Ishikawa Yoshinori to win the Mixed Doubles Championships of the World Table Tennis Championships, was once again upset, following the January national championships and losing again to 30-year-old veteran Kenta Matsudaira, who had long since withdrawn from the national team.
In addition, Japan's national singles champion Yukiya Utada was also almost overturned, 0-2 behind the three consecutive sets to reverse Shinosuke Daiden, while the main player of the Tokyo Olympics, who defeated Ma Long Xuxin and others, Niwa Takashi lost 1-3 to the unknown 18-year-old Ichiki Hamada, and this athlete did not even have a world ranking, which was really surprising.
It seems that the "inner volume" situation of Japanese men's table tennis is really very serious, no wonder Zhang Benzhi and the national championships in recent years have not won the singles championship!
Makoto Yoshimura and Kenta Matsudaira are all familiar table tennis players, the former having won the mixed doubles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships in 2017 with Yoshijun Ishikawa, and the latter is a famous player who rose in 2009, defeating Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Xu Xin and others, but has long since withdrawn from the Japanese national team and disappeared from the international competition stage.
But not long ago, Kenta Matsudaira played well at the Japan National Championships, eliminating Makoto Yoshimura, who was in very good shape (Yoshimura defeated the biggest favorite who won the championship at that time), and then advanced to the final, but unfortunately he did not go to the end, losing to Toue Hayabusa to be the runner-up, so this time everyone also wanted to see if Yoshimura Makoto could "revenge" successfully in the T League, and he planted again.
In the battle between Ryukyu and Caiyu, Makoto Yoshimura and Kenta Matsudaira appeared in the second set, and the two sides fought another tiebreaker battle: Yoshimura Makoto first lost the first set 7-11, and then forced the opponent into a desperate situation 11-9, 11-8. At the crucial moment, Kenta Matsudaira fought backwaters, and then reversed 11-5, 11-8, and defeated Makoto Yoshimura 3-2 with a large score.
It is worth mentioning that in the previous national championships, the two played 7 rounds to divide the victory and defeat, the result is that Yoshimura Makoto lost 3-4, this time he lost 2-3 to the other side, it seems that the combat effectiveness of the veteran really can not be underestimated!
In the third set, Yoshimura's teammate Yukiya Utada was also almost upset, facing the less well-known Shinozo Daiden, he first lost two sets in a row 5-11, 8-11, and was almost swept out, but fortunately he won three consecutive rounds (11-8, 11-9, 11-9), thus saving the situation on the field.
But Japan's Olympic main Niwa Takashi (the highest ranking in the world, currently ranked 23rd) is not so lucky, in the face of no world ranking at all, completely unknown Hamada Kazuki, he chased 0-1 to 1-1 after the complete collapse, and then lost 1-3 (7-11, 11-8, 5-11, 8-11), continuing the bad state in recent years, I really did not expect!
It seems that there are so many domestic war masters in Japanese men's table tennis, I wonder if they can have a good performance in foreign wars in the future? So let's wait and see!