The Japanese Table Tennis T League ended today, and the goal of this tournament at the beginning of the tournament was to "the world's first table tennis league", and now there is little attention outside the island country.
However, this did not affect Zhang Benzhi and his personal mood, he led the Tokyo Kinoshita Club to lift the men's team championship trophy for the third time in two years, and by the way, he also won a men's MVP for himself.
This domestic competition in Japan carries a lot of weight in Zhang Benzhihe's heart, related to his sense of responsibility for his identity, Mizutani Hayabusa has just retired, Zhang Ben said: to take over the banner of his predecessors well.
If you take the world ranking, Zhang Ben is young and has been a "brother" for several years, while Mizutani jumped to the Olympic champion at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and has turned the tide many times in the men's team competition, once again building a solid position as a spiritual leader.
In the eyes of Japanese fans, Zhang Ben, a foreigner on the root, wants to represent the Japanese table tennis scene, and he almost means it.
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Mizutani is the absolute king of the All Japan Championships, carving a record of 10 crowns, and it is almost impossible for latecomers to look back. Zhang Ben has not won the men's singles championship for three consecutive years, and successive losses have won the red Yukiya Utada and Reiki Kawa, and this year they were blocked by veteran Makoto Yoshimura in the final.
The Japanese team is the highest ranked in the world, holding a series of international table tennis records, winning the men's World Cup runner-up, and even defeating all the main players in the national table tennis except Xu Xin...
The international record is impressive, and Zhang Ben's performance in the Domestic Competition in Japan is not equal, not to mention crushing, and it is difficult to win a championship.
The domestic results cannot convince the public, and Zhang Ben is difficult to get the respect that the world's top 5 players deserve in the team. This league championship and MVP can be said to be a shot in the arm for Zhang Ben, after all, the previous season, Tokyo Kinoshita lost the championship with the Olympic lineup of Mizutani Hayabusa, Zhang Benzhihe and Niwa Takashi.
Mo said that the honor is honored, and the pressure given by the capitalists behind it is also very great!
Zhang Benzhiwa, who has just turned 18, feels a lot of pressure every day, and got an acceptance letter from Waseda University at the end of last year, although it is not the target of the University of Tokyo that his mother has been spurring, but it is also a proper famous school.
It is said that Zhang Ben's major is the Department of Human Environmental Sciences, a pure science and engineering discipline, involving ecology, physics, mechanics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, and thermal science... (Dizzy?) ）
Upgraded college students, the most important identity - professional table tennis players, can not be left behind. According to the conventional operation of the Japanese team, standing in the position of "one brother", it is indispensable to set up a flag.
Zhang Benzhihe has three goals for the 2022 season:
All Japan Championship, National Champion;
The men's team of the World Table Tennis Championships won the championship and was the world champion with the right name;
The Asian Games men's singles gold medal, the Asian champion.
The calculation is very good, the first goal has been destroyed, as for the last two, is it too long to see the national table tennis?
Two important competitions this year are in China, the World Table Tennis Championships team competition settled in Chengdu, the Asian Games in Hangzhou. Just like in Japan, where his nationality is located, Zhang Ben, as a Chinese, needs to constantly "surrender" with better results, and when he returns to his hometown of China, he sometimes faces embarrassing scenes.
At the 2017 China Open in Chengdu, Zhang Benzhihe and Niwa Takashi Day Table Tennis Derby, because of the unique attributes of the two players, the audience was stunned to shout out the momentum of the niwa home.
The situation in the 2019 men's World Cup improved slightly, many people cheered Zhang Ben in Sichuanese, and after the footage of his post-match interview answering questions in Japanese was broadcast, it caused a lot of criticism...
Whether Zhang Ben can complete the goal for the Japanese team in Chengdu or Hangzhou is not very likely to be objectively speculated. Although sports have no borders, Zhang Ben is burdened with the pressure of dual identity and is destined to run through his entire career.
Perhaps on the day of retirement, people can finally say: Zhang Benzhihe is a very good table tennis player. And today, whether it is as the leader of the Japanese team, or mentioning his bloodline and technical origins, the controversy will not stop...
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