Just when the national table tennis collective was conducting closed training in Lingshui, Hainan, the T League on the Japanese side was underway.
In a focus battle, former world champion Hao Shuai of the national table tennis team against Japan's young athlete Zhang Benzhihe was swept by his opponent 0-11 in the first set! And this also sounded the alarm bell for the national table tennis, we still can't take the Japanese young player lightly, he is still the strongest opponent of the national table tennis!
In terms of age, Hao Shuai was born in 1983, a full 20 years older than Zhang Benzhihe, who was born in 2003, and it can be said that the two people are not athletes of the same era at all.
When Hao Shuai first debuted, he was once known as the Six Little Dragons of Chinese Men's Table Tennis with Wang Hao, Chen Xuan and other athletes, but then Hao Shuai gradually fell behind, although Hao Shuai also won the title of world champion, but basically did not enter the main layer of men's table tennis, at most it could only belong to the fringe main team.
Zhang Benzhihe is an outstanding young player who has emerged in Japan in recent years, reaching the men's singles quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships at the age of 14, and winning the men's singles championship in the year-end finals of the International Table Tennis Federation at the age of 15.
However, in the past two years, Zhang Benzhihe's performance has not been stable, he can beat top masters such as Ma Longfan Zhendong, or he can lose to many unknown players in foreign associations.
In this T League, Hao Shuai played against Zhang Benzhihe, which was also the first time the two played each other in the T League.
In the first game, Hao Shuai was very uncomfortable with Zhang Benzhihe's attack, with a series of mistakes, 11-0! Hao Shuai was swept away by Zhang Benzhihe!
Although in the second set, Hao Shuai won back a set with an 11-9 score, but the two now whether in terms of technology or physical strength, Hao Shuai has no advantage, 4-11, 9-11, Hao Shuai finally lost to Zhang Benzhihe with a score of 1-3!
Of course, Hao Shuai lost to Zhang Benzhihe is not surprising, although Hao Shuai has won the world championship, but after all, he is 38 years old, facing Zhang Benzhihe, who is 20 years younger than himself, Hao Shuai is completely incomparable with his opponents in terms of physical strength.
And Zhang Benzhihe's performance today also proves that Zhang Benzhihe does have a certain strength!
Zhang Benzhihe's biggest problem now is that he is not weak in the face of strength and weak is not strong! When facing Chinese players, Zhang Benzhihe is often able to play at a higher level, but when he encounters players from other associations, Zhang Benzhihe is often upset!
But if Zhang Benzhihe can solve the problem of his unstable performance, he still has a very big threat to national table tennis, we must not take him lightly!