On February 19, Beijing time, the Table Tennis T League once again staged a showdown between the World Champions of China and Japan: 38-year-old national table tennis veteran Hao Shuai (the gold medalist of the 2010 World Cup men's team) appeared, and then played against the 28-year-old Japanese star Makoto Yoshimura (in 2017, he partnered with Ishikawa Yoshinori and won the Mixed Doubles Championships of the World Table Tennis Championships).
Prior to that, the two had met in the feb. 8 match, when Hao Shuai won in a 3-1 comeback. And the battle of February 19 Hao Shuai won more easily, directly 3-0 to sweep the other side - although not long ago by Zhang Benzhi and a single set 11-0 clean sheet, but Hao Shuai still showed a very strong fighting ability, look forward to him can continue to create good results, and strive to win Zhang Benzhihe next time!
Born in 1983, Hao Shuai was once a star of hope in the national table tennis team, as early as 2003, he and Wang Hao met with Wang Hao in the men's singles final of the INTERNATIONAL TABLE Tennis Federation Finals, but then he went high and low, especially after the 2005 World Table Tennis Championships upset was reversed by the Danish player Metz, he was gradually marginalized, but he still worked hard to serve the national team and became a gold medal sparring partner imitating German rival Pol.
In 2021, Hao Shuai officially joined the Japanese T-League, replacing Takashi Niwa as the core main force of Okayama FC. Although he once encountered the embarrassment of Zhang Benzhi and 11-0 clean sheets, Hao Shuai's previous singles win rate reached 77%, beating famous players such as Takashi Niwa, Makoto Yoshimura, and Yuya Oshima, and unexpectedly met Makoto Yoshimura on February 19.
After the match began, the Okayama club did not rush to let Hao Shuai appear, but first arranged for Yoshimura and Hiroshi / Morien Masashi to play in the doubles, and as a result, they swept 2-0 Yukiya Yukiya. In the second set of singles, Yuma Tanigaki lost 0-3 to Muzo Kishiro, and Ryu's team pulled back Ichijo. In the third set, Masataka Morien played a heroic role and swept the Japanese National Championships men's singles champion Yukiya Unata 3-0.
In this way, Hao Shuai and Yoshimura Makoto, two world champions from China and Japan, met in the fourth set of singles, and the encounter broke out again.
In the first set, both sides fought very fiercely, and Makoto Yoshimura was eager for revenge, but was reversed 9-11 after taking the lead at one point. In the second set, Hao Shuai continued to work hard and won 11-8. In the third set, Makoto Yoshimura fought back and was suppressed in the whole process, and finally lost 7-11 with a larger point difference, thus losing the entire game.
So far, Hao Shuai has won 11 games in the T League singles showdown and lost only 3 games, which is not easy for a 38-year-old veteran and deserves everyone's praise! So can Hao Shuai find an opportunity to defeat Zhang Benzhihe? Let's wait and see: Come on, veteran!