On October 8, 2022, the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships broke out of the super big unpopular, the 19-year-old Japanese teenager Zhang Benzhihe played a brave role, in the men's team semi-finals won Wang Chuqin, Fan Zhendong, one person scored 2 points, forcing the Chinese table tennis team into a desperate situation, although in the end the Japanese team lost 2-3 because of the team disadvantage, but this did not prevent Zhang Benzhihe's performance from surpassing the national table tennis.
It is worth mentioning that this is the first time since 2000 that the national table tennis men's team has been scored 2 points by the same opponent at the World Table Tennis Championships, and the last time he did this was the world champion Person, who won Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui in a row, and the last time was the Grand Slam Waldner.
Do you remember those memories?
In the 2000 Kuala Lumpur World Table Tennis Championships, the national table tennis encountered the old rival Sweden in the men's team final, when the three main Swedish players Waldner, Persson and Carlsson were nearly 100 years old, and the strength was not as good as before, so the fans who watched that game thought that the championship must be in the pocket of the Chinese team, but it collapsed.
In the first set, Liu Guoliang, who had won six consecutive games against Waldner undefeated, lost 1-2, and was also overturned by the opponent with multiple match points in the decider; In the second set, Kong Linghui also lost to Perssen, whom he was never afraid of, and lost 2-0.
In the third set, Liu Guozheng, who was still a young player at the time, turned the tide, swept Karlsson 2-0, and then won Waldner 2-0 in the fourth set, but in the fifth set, Liu Guoliang lost points again, and was pulled by Persson for two consecutive sets in the case of a 1-0 lead, and finally lost the entire game 1-2, and the Chinese team also lost the last team championship of the small ball era, and countless fans burst into tears.
If Zhang Benzhi and Zhang Benzhi had a stronger teammate at this year's World Table Tennis Championships, Japan may not be able to replicate the miracle of Sweden that year, and his situation is more like another classic battle in the table tennis world, that is, the 1995 Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships men's team final.
That year's same Sino-Swiss war, but at that time, Waldner alone won 2 points of national table tennis, winning Wang Tao and Ma Wenge, but the biggest sin was Person, who lost 2 points in a row, and the 3rd point in the middle was the national table tennis "secret weapon" Ding Song surprisingly won, 2-0 swept Carsson, and the national table tennis also won 3-2, leaving an eternal classic.
However, after the team match, some media said: the Chinese team is back to the top again, but there is another person above their heads, that is, Waldnell! Now that the Japanese team has lost, but Zhang Benzhihe has not lost, will he be the next old Wa?
From 2000 to 2022, the most dangerous moment encountered by the national table tennis men's team was in the semi-finals of the Osaka World Table Tennis Championships, when Kong Linghui lost 2 points in a row, losing to South Korea's Kanazawa so and Wu Sang-ha, and the decider Liu Guozheng was even given 7 match points by Kanazawa Soo, but he finally took it down, but at that time we were not losing to the same opponent after all.
Later, German athlete Pol also defeated Ma Lin, Ma Long, Zhang Jike and other national table tennis players in the World Table Tennis Championships and even the team competition of the Olympic Games, but at most he only scored 1 point: from this point of view, Zhang Benzhihe has surpassed Pol!
What is even more frightening is that Zhang Benzhihe was born in 2003 and is now only 19 years old to threaten the Chinese team so much, will there be greater progress in the future? From a technical point of view, his forehand this time is much more stable than before, and the backhand is faster and more accurate, maintaining a great advantage when facing Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong.
After the World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Benzhi and most likely will continue to participate in the WTT Championships and WTT World Cup finals held in China, when he can still beat the main force of national table tennis? Let's wait and see what happens: Come on, Chinese team!