On April 16, Beijing time, according to Japanese media reports, Zhang Benzhihe, the national champion and world runner-up in Japanese table tennis, announced an important decision, that is, he was about to go to Europe to play, join the new Ulm club to participate in the Bundesliga, and become teammates with the three famous players Ochalov, Moregold and Lin Yunru.
It is worth mentioning that before the Japanese table tennis has a national champion choose to go to a European club to develop, that is, Yukiya Utada, who not long ago made a huge impact on the national table tennis, which is really embarrassing: the Japanese said to build the "world's first" league?
Friends who pay attention to table tennis know that Japan has been promoting the T-League in recent years, trying to build it into a benchmark in the industry, and attracting first-class players from China and around the world to participate, including Hao Shuai, the world champion of national table tennis, Hou Yingchao, the national champion, and so on.
However, after four years of holding, the situation of the T-League is getting worse and worse, not only has it been exposed to a serious financial crisis, but also the brain drain situation is also very serious, and the popularity is getting worse and worse.
Prior to this, Hou Yingchao did not renew his contract with Tokyo Club, and Lin Yunru even appeared to be absent from participating many times and was fined as a result. As for the japanese homegrown masters are also absent-minded, Ito Mimachi did not participate from beginning to end, Ishikawa Yoshijun hung up the exemption card many times, and the Olympic main players of several other national teams often played fish for three days and dried nets for two days.
After the arrival of 2022, Zhang Benzhihe even directly ended the four-year relationship with Kinoshita Club, and now he has announced that he will go to Europe to play, and many people can't help but sigh: Japan's own league is really unattractive!
Judging from Yukiya Utada's previous speech, he went to Europe to play not to make money, but to improve his ability, as for whether Zhang Benzhihe had this idea, we don't know, but in recent years he has repeatedly lost to European players in the world championships, so this trip to Germany will surely accumulate more experience for him.
In addition to them, Chinese Taipei's famous Lin Yunru also plays in Europe, and their common disadvantage is that their strength is relatively small, and cooperation with Ochalov and others may be conducive to the repair of their own technical shortcomings, which is worthy of national table tennis vigilance!
At present, the gold content of japan's T-league is far less than that of Germany's first division league and China's table tennis super league, but the latter has no intention of restarting, and rarely invites athletes from foreign associations to participate, so Zhang Benzhihe, Yukiya Utada, Lin Yunru and others only have to go to Germany for exercise.
So can Zhang Benzhihe, Yukiya Utada, and Lin Yunru and others succeed in "gilding" in the West and enhance their own strength? Let's wait and see!