In a focus match in the Japanese Table Tennis T League, Zhang Benzhi and his Tokyo club lost 1-3 to world champion Makoto Yoshimura's Ryukyu club, but the only one who scored one point for the Tokyo men's team was the 15-year-old genius Matsushima Huikong, who fought with the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles champion Masaharu Yoshimura in a five-set battle to finally win 3-2 (11-9/11-7/7-7-11/9-9-11/11/11-9) and is expected to become the successor of Zhang Motoharu, who was trained by the Japanese team.
This season's Japanese table tennis league seems to be a bit star-studded, the leader of the women's team, Ito Mimachi, has missed the league for two consecutive seasons, Hirano Miyu and Ishikawa Yoshijun, two Main Players of the Tokyo Olympics, have rarely played, Zhang Benzhi and this game also continue to be absent, his absence makes Tokyo Club almost unable to see the dawn of victory, and the opponents in this round have two major Japanese main players, Yukiya Utada and Makoru Yoshimura.
The men's doubles duo Ofa Taesu and Tomoya Fujimura, who represented Tokyo in the first men's doubles match, lost 0-2 to Yukiya Yukiya Ryūya/ Yuyo Tomoyuki, and the whole process was one-sided. In the second set, Tokyo's Suzuki Sa was swept 0-3 by Kazuki Hamada, and tokyo did not win a set, and saw that they were swept away by the Ryukyu team.
In the third set, Tokyo team sent 15-year-old Yuki Matsushima, born in 1997, who is the top men's singles player in Japan's junior high school age group and a new hope for the future of the Japanese men's team. The opponent of this game, Makoto Yoshimura, is a veteran who played as the main player of the Japanese men's team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and won the Olympic silver medal of the men's team, and in 2017, he won the mixed doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships with Ishikawa Yoshinori, and is also a veteran with a very high status in the Japanese men's team. The duel between the veteran and the young general in this game was thought to be a result without suspense, but the final outcome of the game was to make people shout "The back wave of the Yangtze River pushes the front wave".
Matsushima Huikong came up to use skillful and smooth articulation technology, in the near stage to play a threatening anti-pull fast tear and other advanced technologies, soon 11-9, 11-7 first to Yoshimura Maharu's next horse, fortunately, the world champion adjusted the state in time, using the tall Nakamoto Stage to hold 11-7 and 11-9 to pay tribute to the young general 2 sets, the key decider Two are trying to beat their own strengths, but the key points Matsushima Huikong forced two consecutive hands, a backhand twist and a fast band, Makoto Yoshimura, who was seeking stability, did not wait for the mistakes of the youngster, and lost 2 points in a row to make it 9-11.
It is no accident that Matsushima defeated Makoto Yoshimura in the just-concluded Japan Championship Junior Division, losing to Yoshiyama, reaching the men's singles round of 16 in the adult group, losing to Masayuki Yoshida in the quarterfinals, and already approaching the main lineup of the Japanese men's team. The Japanese men's team in the past two years only Zhang Benzhi and superior strength, young Yukiya Utada, Tokami Hayabusa and other team members have not played in the international arena for a long time, the veteran Niwa Takashi, Yoshimura Masaharu is not a big threat, urgently need new people to rise as soon as possible, this stage Matsushima Huikong may rely on the recent outstanding performance, get more opportunities for international competitions, become the Japanese Table Tennis Association hand-picked Zhang Benzhi and successor, as to whether it can really take over, and Zhang Ben together to carry the Japanese men's team banner, It also depends on Matsushima's performance in international competitions in the next two years.
After Matsushima scored one point for Tokyo, Tokyo's Satayano defeated Ryukyu's Yukiya 2-3 in the 4th set, and the Ryukyu team defeated Tokyo 3-1 overall.