On February 18, Beijing time, the table tennis T League broke out a big upset: Japan's famous Shibata Shaji (who had defeated the national table tennis world champion Zhu Yuling) was swept 0-3, and it was Zhang Benzhi and her 13-year-old sister Zhang Benmeihe who beat her, which was really surprising!
At present, it seems that Zhang Benmeihe is catching up with his brother's footsteps step by step, and the national table tennis must be prevented! Although world champion Ishikawa Yoshijun lost the first doubles match, she quickly regained her morale in singles, sweeping Ōto Sazuki 3-0 to win the first T-League victory in 2022, and congratulations to her.
Since December last year, Ishikawa has been lacking interest in the T-League, and it took more than two months to finally return to the field, but on February 13, he suffered consecutive defeats, first losing 1-2 with Zhang Benmeihe in doubles, and then losing 2-3 in singles, which was very bad.
No, in the game on February 18, Kanagawa Club replaced Ishikawa Yoshijun's women's doubles partner and was paired with her by Kazuru Kimura, and as a result, the two still could not get rid of the fate of losing, and once again fought hard until the decisive game, they were reversed by Feng Tianwei / Shibata Shaji 1-2 (11-3, 3-11, 9-11), and encountered the embarrassment of "opening the door black" as soon as they came up.
However, competitive sports are indeed uncertain, and from the second set, the situation has reversed. First, Ishikawa's teammate Miyu Kihara was full of momentum, beating Haruka Koshio, who looked exactly like Zhang Yining (11-9, 11-5, 11-7), and then Ishikawa Yoshinori continued to work hard, also giving OtoShazuki a 3-0 (11-6, 11-9, 11-6), and Kanagawa Successfully overtook the aggregate score.
In the fourth set of singles, everyone was not very optimistic about Zhang Benmeihe being able to win Shibata Shaji, after all, the latter's strength is very good, and the Japanese national team can also hit the level of the top five or so, but the result is that Zhang Benmei and 3-0 easily won (11-7, 11-8, 11-4), which is really unexpected.
Admittedly, compared with Zhang Benzhi and the 13-year-old Victory over Mizutani Falcon and reaching the quarterfinals of the Men's Singles of the World Table Tennis Championships, the younger sister Zhang Benmei and the current results are far from comparable. But through the growth of these years, Zhang Benmeihe has become a new generation of Japanese women's table tennis forces that cannot be ignored: don't forget that she was only 20 years old when she was in the 2028 Olympic Games!
As for Ishikawa Yoshijun's words, as she grows older, her status is constantly being impacted, although she won the Japanese national singles championship last year, but this year it will soon be gone, and there are still doubts about whether she can appear again in the Olympic arena in 2024, let's wait and see the performance of the competition behind it!