Zhang Benzhi and his family all officially joined the Japanese nationality, the last to join Zhang Benzhi and his mother Zhang Ling, now renamed Zhang Benling. The WTT Regional Tournament in Olomouc, Czech Republic, will be held from August 23 to 28, and the Japan Table Tennis Association has announced the list of participating athletes and coaches. Zhang Benzhi and his mother Zhang Ling were prominently listed. It is worth mentioning that 4 years ago, Zhang Ling also said in an interview that she was still Chinese and was not ready to change her Chinese nationality, but now her thinking has changed.
Zhang Benling, a Japanese national, is now on the coaching staff of the Japanese national table tennis team, and her husband Zhang Benyu has long been a member of the Japanese team's coaching staff.
Compared with Zhang Benyu, Zhang Ling is more famous in the athlete era, she was once one of the main players of national table tennis, participated in the World Table Tennis Championships, and was teammates with Deng Yaping and Qiao Hong. Being able to play in the World Table Tennis Championships shows Zhang Ling's strength. However, Zhang Ling soon lost his main position and retired from the national team at the age of 23.
In 1998, Zhang Ling and her husband Zhang Yu went to Japan as coaches and have since settled in Japan. The two gave birth to Zhang Benzhihe and Zhang Benmeihe.
Zhang Ling was interviewed by the media in 2018, and she said with tears in her eyes that zhang Benzhihe proposed her son's naturalization of Japan in the first place, and that she did so to better realize her dream. After Zhang Benzhi and naturalization, he became the key cultivation object of Japanese table tennis and won the opportunity to participate in international competitions early.
In 2014, except for Zhang Ling, the rest of the family became Japanese. Zhang Benzhihe has risen since 2016 and gradually become the main player of the Japanese table tennis men's team, and Zhang Benmeihe won the championship in the youth competition.
His father, Zhang Benyu, became an important member of the Coaching Staff of the Japanese team.
Nowadays, the Chinese sports circle is not so concerned about naturalization, and Zhang Ling has quietly naturalized in Japan, after all, her son and daughter are well developed in Japan and it is impossible to join the national table tennis. Basically, Zhang Ling will live in Japan in the future, and in order to meet the needs of work, it is logical for Zhang Ling to join Japan. She is now the coach of the Japanese team.
I have to say that Zhang Benzhi and his family have become the enemies of national table tennis, Zhang Benzhihe is now a brother in Japanese table tennis, and his peak period is still more than ten years. Zhang Benmeihe showed the potential to become a sister of the future Day Table Tennis. Zhang Benyu and Zhang Benling were once very good athletes, and the two became Japanese table tennis coaches, which will also bring some trouble to national table tennis.