Table tennis WTT Bulgaria is in full swing, the current men's singles qualification of the second stage of the battle has ended, people are surprised that the national table tennis has lost to an unknown, the world ranking of only 666 Japanese dark horse player Matsuyama Yuji, Gao Yang, Niu Guankai both lost under his shooting, it is really surprising.
Prior to this, Japanese men's table tennis has always been known for "civil war insiders, foreign war laymen", did not expect to suddenly appear a 24-year-old athlete to break through the Chinese team's defense line, could they also have hidden masters?
Matsuyama Yuji was born in 1998, in Japan is indeed a well-known table tennis player, and Zhang Benzhihe and others are completely incomparable, checking its international competition results is also lackluster, in 2020 and before many times "one round trip" out, youth competition is also difficult to break through the upper limit of the top sixteen, it is reasonable to say that it should be a weak athlete.
After this, Matsuyama Yuki's resume in the 2021 foreign war was blank, probably affected by the epidemic and did not participate much, in 2022, he participated in the WTT Slovenia Tournament, and stopped at the qualifiers, which also made his world ranking stay at the position of 666.
However, after the start of the WTT Bulgaria match, Matsuyama Yuki was in very good shape. In the first round of the men's singles qualifier, he met the national table tennis player Gao Yang, and the Japanese laughed to the end after four sets of vicious battles between the two sides (11-9, 13-15, 11-8, 11-8).
Immediately after the second round of duels, Matsuyama Yuji and the more well-known national table tennis rising star Niu Guankai began to duel, the two once again bombed 4 sets, the result is still Matsuyama Yuji won (12-10, 5-11, 11-8, 11-6) - in this way, Matsuyama Yuji has become the most foreign association athlete who has broken through the national table tennis defense line!
In addition to Zhou Qihao and Xu Haidong directly entering the main competition, the remaining 10 people participated in the qualification tournament, and the result was that 6 people had lost before they finished playing, and 5 of them were defeated outside the game, which were eliminated by Athletes from Japan, South Korea, Italy and Spain, which was indeed a heavy loss.
On September 1, the qualifiers will usher in the final round of the showdown, so will the national table tennis still lose the foreign war? Who can be shortlisted for the main tournament and meet two teammates? The suspense is still there, let's cheer for the Chinese team together!