In the early morning of June 19, Beijing time, puerto Rican star Diaz, the top seeded player in the women's singles and the 9th in the world, was knocked out of the game and was eliminated 3-2 by Japanese rising star Miyu Nagasaki.
However, although Nagasaki Miyu is not ranked high in the world (99th), she has defeated the national table tennis world champion Zhu Yuling twice in a row, and this year she defeated Ito Mimachi in the Japanese team selection competition, and the women's doubles has also ranked No. 1 in the world, and Kihara Miyu has won Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, so her win this time is not accidental, it is indeed a foundation!
Diaz is the number one person in the American women's table tennis world, born in 2000, her skills are self-contained, the batting power is large, the oppression is strong, but it is not very stable, she has come to the national table tennis to study before, got the personal guidance of Liu Guoliang, and became good friends with many national table tennis players, so she is called the overseas apprentice of the national table tennis and Sun Yingsha's good girlfriend by the fans.
Compared with Diaz, Nagasaki Miyu, born in 2002, has a relatively faster style of play and is a typical Asian playing style athlete, but her development has stagnated slightly in recent years, and it has not recovered until this year, and there is some suspense in the battle with Diaz.
After the game began, Miyu Nagasaki took the lead, suppressing Diaz in terms of speed, and then took the lead at 11-8. However, Diaz, as the first master of women's table tennis in the Western Hemisphere, is not a vegetarian, and her strength is also very strong, and she soon won two consecutive cities 11-8, 13-11, and the big score of 2-1 pushed Nagasaki Miyu into a desperate situation.
In the fourth set, the Japanese youngster fought backwaters, basically grasped the initiative on the field, won 11-6, and the game was dragged into the decider. In the fifth set, Diaz somehow lost all his form, losing the entire match in a 4-11 defeat and failing to advance to the women's singles semifinals.
At present, It seems that Diaz's talent is still there, and his physical fitness is also good, but Puerto Rico's table tennis foundation is still unable to compare with Japan, so Diaz's usual training has been severely limited, although he can get a valuable opportunity to study in China, but the so-called far water can not quench the thirst, this time in the face of Nagasaki Yuzu is still some dew.
In contrast, in the Japanese table tennis world, their young players emerge in an endless stream, and all of this is inseparable from the strong support of relevant departments and all sectors of society: for table tennis, a sport that is not very commercial, the importance of the system is self-evident, so this time Diaz is not only an individual defeat, but also a loss for the entire team.
It is worth mentioning that the previous top seed in the men's singles, Brazil's fierce Victor Hugo has also been upset, and finally look forward to the performance of the American players next time can be more brilliant, so that the table tennis world is more blooming!