On March 6, Beijing time, the men's singles final of the 2022 Lion King Cup Japan Table Tennis Round of 32, Chinese prodigy Zhang Benzhi and 4-2 defeated club teammates and Chuan Ruiji to win the championship. After the game, Zhang Benzhihe was very excited, pulled up his clothes to show his muscles to the camera, which aroused strong attention from netizens.
As can be seen from the photo, Zhang Benzhihe was seen pulling his clothes to the height of covering his head, making a muscle-showing movement, and rarely appearing in the mirror to shake his arms and roar. In fact, over the past year or so, Zhang Benzhihe's state has been fluctuating, including the early exit of the singles field in the singles field despite winning the bronze medal of the men's team at the Tokyo Olympics, and he is also under great pressure. This time in the round of 32, Zhang Benzhi and successively defeated Shinozuka Daiden, and Kawa Mizuki and other powerful players to win the championship, once again proving his status as a "single" in Japanese men's table tennis.
With the victory of this event, Zhang Benzhihe also locked the qualification for the team World Table Tennis Championships and the table tennis men's singles quota for the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. In addition, many fans have found that after these games, Zhang Benzhi and the corner of the eye have an obvious wound. According to Japanese media, this is Zhang Benzhihe accidentally scratched himself with his fingernails while sleeping, not an injury.
As one of the most important competitors of the Chinese table tennis team, Zhang Benzhihe has always attracted much attention because of his identity, parents' ancestry and other reasons. As he grew older, Zhang Benzhihe has gradually grown into the "Number One" player of Japanese men's table tennis, which makes him bear greater expectations and pressures. In particular, once the performance is not good, it will provoke criticism and finger pointing from public opinion, and zhang Benzhihe, who was slightly blunt in front of media reporters in the past, has also become much more silent, which may be the price of growth.