On March 12, the first WTT Singapore Grand Slam tournament continued, in a men's singles main round of the first round of the competition, Japanese Chinese talented teenager Zhang Benzhihe, in the case of a 1-0 lead in the big score, but suffered a reversal by the American youngsters, missing the next round!
In this match, Zhang Benzhihe's opponent is the American player Karnak.
Zhang Benzhi and everyone are very familiar with it, as early as 2017 when he was less than 14 years old, he entered the men's singles quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships, the youngest eight players in the history of international table tennis, and when he was less than 15 years old in 2018, he won the men's singles championship of the ITTF year-end finals, and is the youngest finals champion in the history of the International Table Tennis Federation!
However, the talented teenager has suffered the biggest crisis of his career in recent years.
In last year's Tokyo Olympic Games, Zhang Benzhihe, who aspired to win the championship, was also out early in the World Table Tennis Championships, and it can be said that with the increase of age, Zhang Benzhihe's performance has declined significantly.
Zhang Benzhihe may also be aware of his own problems, this time has also been practicing diligently, in the recent round of 32, Zhang Benzhihe won the final men's singles championship, the state has a certain recovery.
In the first set of the match against Karnak, Zhang Benzhihe quickly entered the game state, taking a 7-2 lead shortly after the opening and finally winning the first set with an 11-7 score.
However, from the second set of the game, the situation on the field suddenly changed, Kanak started to take a 6-2 lead, Zhang Benzhihe was too anxious, there were many undeserved mistakes, Kanak won back a set with an 11-9 score!
In the third set, the competition between the two was more intense, but at the critical moment, Zhang Benzhihe made a mistake again, and Kanak seized the opportunity to win another set with an 11-9 score, and the big score was 2-1 to reverse the score.
In the fourth game, Zhang Benzhi and mentality completely collapsed, despite the roar on the field, but the same mistakes continued, 11-3, Kanak easily won, thus defeating Zhang Benzhihe with a 3-1 score reversal!
As the fourth seed of this tournament, Zhang Benzhihe's performance is indeed disappointing, Zhang Benzhihe has said many times that he is eager to beat Chinese players in the competition, so he always sets his sights on Chinese players in many times.
But this also makes Zhang Benzhi and Gu lose sight of each other, many times, Zhang Benzhihe has not yet come to the front of the Chinese players, he has been defeated by the players of other associations!
And the American player who beat Zhang Benzhihe in this upset, in fact, the person who should be most grateful should be the Chinese female table tennis player Wang Manyu.
At last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, Kanak once partnered with Wang Manyu to participate in the mixed doubles competition of the World Table Tennis Championships, although in the end, Wang Manyu and Kanak stopped in the quarterfinals, but Kanak said that in the days of training with Wang Manyu, he learned a lot of techniques and tactics from Wang Manyu.
And that has allowed Kanak to make groundbreaking progress to beat the world's top four players in a grand slam for the first time!
While congratulating Kanak, we also hope that Zhang Benzhihe can learn from this competition and play better results in future competitions! Come on!