On February 12, Beijing time, the Japanese Table Tennis T League staged a focus battle - the 38-year-old veteran of the national table tennis world championship Hao Shuai finally met with the 18-year-old opponent, who is the main player of the Japanese table tennis men's team Zhang Benzhihe!
One is the former hope star of the Chinese team, and the other is the core main force of the Japanese team now, this 10-year-old "battle between the old and the new" ended with Zhang Benzhi and a 3-1 victory, and he also blasted an 11-0 score in the first set. Although Hao Shuai suffered a fiasco at the beginning, he played two games to the moment when he scored 2 points to determine the winner, which is indeed very tenacious, although the loss is still worthy of our respect!
Born in 1983 and Zhang Benzhihe in 2003, Hao Shuai is a table tennis player who grew up in two completely different eras, with very different styles:
Hao Shuai's left hand horizontal slapping method is good at hitting the drop point and line, four or two strokes of a thousand pounds; while Zhang Benzhihe is a right-handed horizontal slap method, the attack is fierce and sharp, not as light and agile as Hao Shuai, but the assault is very strong, and the pressure on the opponent is relatively greater, so the key to this duel depends on whether Hao Shuai can mobilize Zhang Benzhihe, and whether Zhang Benzhihe can get rid of Hao Shuai's control.
After the game began, Zhang Benzhihe took the lead in launching, and Hao Shuai had no power to fight back, and the result was actually to come out on top with an 11-0 point difference, which was still somewhat unexpected! In the second set, Hao Shuai was not disrupted, and soon organized an effective counterattack, and then won 11-9 to win back Yicheng.
In the third set, Zhang Benzhihe once again took the initiative and then won 11-4 to force Hao Shuai into a desperate situation. In the fourth set, the two sides did not give in to each other, but unfortunately, this time Hao Shuai failed to win by key points, and finally lost the whole game 9-11, and had no chance to defeat Zhang Benzhihe: Tried his best!
From a technical point of view, Hao Shuai's ball is relatively lethal or a little small, with the advancement of the reform of the International Table Tennis Federation, playing style like him is still a bit difficult, coupled with the 38-year-old "advanced age", physical fitness, energy are difficult to compete with the 18-year-old Zhang Benzhihe, can win has been considered a cold, loss is also expected by many people.
At present, Hao Shuai has played 13 times in the T League singles matchup, won 10 times, and the winning rate is very high, which is not easy for an athlete who rises at the same time as Wang Hao, Chen Xuan and others, and finally expects him to continue to play well and win more victories in Japan: come on!