On November 1, the Belarus Table Tennis Challenge entered its third matchday competition, and there was a match worthy of the attention of fans, Zhao Zhaoyan of national table tennis against Japanese table tennis player Haiwei Yoshida in the first round of the men's singles main tournament. The reason why the match got the attention was because of the identity of Yoshida Haiwei, whose original name was Song Haiwei and who was originally from China. In this match, Zhao Zhaoyan and Yoshida Haiwei fought hard for 7 sets, eliminating their opponents 4-3 and successfully entering the next round.
Yoshida Haiwei was also a former Chinese table tennis player, formerly known as Song Haiwei, born in Hebei, China. When Song Haiwei was 7 years old, he showed outstanding talent for table tennis, and at the age of 15, he was favored by Japanese coach Yoshida and promised him many convenient conditions, which finally made Song Haiwei make up his mind to go to Japan.
After finishing high school and college in Japan, Song Haiwei joined the top four clubs in Japan. In 2002, 21-year-old Song Haiwei recognized "Bole" coach Yoshida as his father, and changed his surname to Yoshida Haiwei, officially becoming a Japanese citizen. In the past few years, Yoshida Haiwei has grown into a Japanese table tennis figure. In 2005, at the All-Japan Table Tennis Championships, Yoshida Haiwei defeated former Olympic champion Harumitsu Wei guan and won the men's singles championship, officially becoming the "first brother" of Japanese men's table tennis.
In addition to Japanese and Japanese, Yoshida Haiwei's love life has also attracted much attention from the outside world. He gradually fell in love with Konishi Apricot, the main player of Japanese women's table tennis, and finally entered the palace of marriage hand in hand. Some media once asked Yoshida Haiwei: Have you ever regretted joining Japanese nationality? Yoshida Haiwei did not shy away from saying that the pressure of playing in China is too great, it is difficult to achieve results, there are many opportunities to come to Japan, and the reason for entering Japan is to make yourself go further.
Because of the nationality issue, Yoshida Haiwei and the International Table Tennis Federation have a story to tell. In 2008, when the ITTF planned to introduce a plan to restrict the naturalization of Chinese athletes to other countries, Yoshida Haiwei directed and used vulgar language to anger the ITTF and claimed to take the ITTF to court. From this point of view, Yoshida Haiwei still recognizes and approves of the change of nationality. However, the storm eventually fell silent, and Yoshida Haiwei did not receive relevant feedback, which can be said to be over.
Of course, after joining the Japanese nationality, Yoshida Haiwei did usher in more opportunities to play. In addition to winning the 2005 Japan Table Tennis Championships, in 2006, Yoshida Also won the men's singles championship of the Sevieria Open, which attracted much attention from the outside world. This is also the first men's singles champion on the Tour in Yoshida's career, which is a very proud honor.
Today, Yoshida Ishiwei is 38 years old, but the elderly player has not chosen to retire, but is still active on the field. At the all-day championship held last year, he also killed one new star in the table tennis world, and reached the top four with super strength, and it has to be said that "the sword is not old".