On February 13, Beijing time, the Japanese Table Tennis T League continued, and the national table tennis rival Zhang Benzhihe was tragically upset after a 3-2 victory over Shinosuke Ōden, and lost 0-1 to 19-year-old dark horse Zeng Genxiang in the decider. It is worth mentioning that on February 11, Zhang Benzhihe was swept 3-0 by Zeng Genxiang, and this time he lost to the other side.
At present, Zhang Benzhi and the world rank 4th, while Zeng Genxiang's world ranking is only 228, but the former was defeated by the latter for 2 consecutive times, which is really surprising! It can be seen that the ranking can only reflect the average performance of one athlete, but the win or loss of the game is another matter: Zhang Benzhi and the morale that is hard to recover have been suppressed, which is really miserable!
Speaking of Zhang Benzhihe's recent state, it is really ups and downs: after last year's olympic and World Table Tennis fiasco, he broke out in the final of the WTT World Cup in December, reaching the men's singles final and losing to Fan Zhendong, and his performance was quite OK. After the arrival of 2022, Zhang Benzhi and Masaharu Yoshimura lost to Masaharu Yoshimura at the Japan National Championships in January, missing the men's singles gold medal for the fourth consecutive time.
Returning to the T League on February 11, zeng genxiang scored a 3-0 score, but on February 12, he not only defeated the national table tennis world champion Hao Shuai 3-1, but also exploded an 11-0 point difference in a single set. In the first game on February 13, Zhang Benzhi fell behind 0-2 and reversed 3-2, and his state seemed to have recovered.
However, when he met his old rival Zeng Genxiang again, Zhang Benzhihe broke into the sand again. Because it was a game to win or lose, the two played very glue after the game began, but Zhang Benzhihe was always pressed by the other side and was forced to take the lead in calling out a timeout to adjust the state.
But it is clear that Zeng Genxiang played far better than Zhang Benzhihe, who not only did not give the opponent any chance to overtake, but also quickly extended the advantage of the lead, taking 4 innings 10-6. At the crucial moment, Zhang Benzhihe chased points without success, and finally lost the entire match 8-11, and his Tokyo team also lost 2-3 to the Caiyu team played by Zeng Genxiang.
At present, the competition in Japanese men's table tennis is indeed very fierce, but in terms of foreign combat ability, Zhang Benzhihe is still the strongest: can those athletes who are engaged in the civil war still have great achievements? Leave it all to time to test!