In the women's singles semifinals of the WTT Doha Regular Season Challenge, national table tennis player Zhang Rui defeated Japanese star Miyu Kihara 4-0 and successfully advanced to the final. Zhang Rui's opponent in the final was his teammate Fan Siqi, and the two also locked the gold medal in advance for the national table tennis. Zhang Rui is a very dedicated sparring partner of national table tennis, and she specially imitates ito's playing style in training to help the main players of national table tennis find a way to defeat their opponents. Zhang Rui's technical characteristics are closer to Ito's, this time she defeated Zhang Benmi and Kihara Miyu 2 Japanese celebrities in a row, using Ito Mimachi's playing style to defeat Japanese players, tit-for-tat too relieved.
Compared with men's table tennis, Japanese women's table tennis brings us a greater threat, and Hirano Miyu and Ito Mimachi have all won the championship by defeating 3 national table tennis main players in a row. Hirano won consecutive victories over Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling and Chen Meng at the Asian Championships, while Ito Mimachi won consecutive victories over Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling at the 2018 Swedish Open, and swept Zhu Yuling 4-0 in the final. That game directly changed the trajectory of Zhu Yuling's career, allowing her to decline all the way from the main force of the top 3 in the national table tennis rankings, which was really regrettable.
In order to deal with these 2 people, the national table tennis coaching team also thought of many ways, including letting the non-main players of the national table tennis imitate the playing style of Hirano Miyu and Ito Mimachi to help the main players find a way to defeat the opponent. The original imitation of Hirano Miyu was Chen Xingtong, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, these 3 people are now the main force of the national table tennis women's team, and the last 2 are the absolute core. Among the contestants who act as ito's imitators is Zhang Rui. It can be said that sparring is also a very important role in national table tennis, and they can often be improved from the process of sparring and imitation.
Zhang Rui played well in the WTT Doha Regular Season Challenge, facing Japanese women's table tennis rising star Meihe Zhang Ben in the quarterfinals, Zhang Rui defeated his opponent 3-1, and did not let Zhang Benzhihe's sister continue to move forward. In the semi-finals, facing another famous player in Japanese table tennis, Miyu Kihara, Zhang Rui performed steadily, swept the opponent 4-0, and met with Fan Siqi in the final, ensuring this championship in advance for the national table tennis. Consecutive defeats of Zhang Ben Miwa and Kihara Miyu, two Japanese table tennis celebrities, Zhang Rui's strength is really good. Obviously, even if it is a national table tennis sparring partner, it is also a fierce role.
Zhang Rui's technical and tactical playing style still has many similarities with Ito Mimako, in fact, Sun Yingsha and other national table tennis main players are very difficult to play when facing Zhang Rui. Zhang Rui's imitation has worked, and in the last few national table tennis and Ito Mimachi' encounters, we have won. Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Wang Yidi, the four main forces did not have any soft hands in the face of Ito Mimako, and Zhang Rui also played a great role. This time, Ito Mimachi's imitator Zhang Rui personally defeated 2 Japanese table tennis masters, defeating her teammates with Ito's technical characteristics, which can be described as tit-for-tat.
When Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and other players won gold and silver for the national table tennis on the field, we cannot forget Zhang Rui, these national table tennis sparring partners silently paid behind their backs. In the words of Liu Guoliang, this is the essence of national table tennis. It is precisely because there are many players like Zhang Rui that the national table tennis can maintain its dominance in the world table tennis for a long time.