On October 9, Beijing time, the national table tennis team narrowly defeated the Japanese team 3-2 in the previous World Table Tennis Championships men's team semifinals, and the game was indeed won, but the biggest crisis has also come.
At least in this semi-final, no one in the Chinese team has been able to win against Zhang Benzhihe. Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin two people on the field, by Zhang Benzhi and double kill to take two points, which means that the next biggest test of the Chinese team has just come, once the biggest challenge of the women's team is Ito Mimakoto, but after the rise of the Iron Triangle, they are not afraid of Ito Mimakoto, but the men's team has no one to play Zhang Benzhi and what advantage. The men's team had 6 giants before, there are 5 people left until now, Xu Xin is in a semi-retired state, and Xu Xin is the only one among the main players of national table tennis, and now playing Zhang Benzhi and the undefeated person (8-0), except for Xu Xin, everyone has lost to Zhang Benzhihe. After such a result came out, who in the Chinese team dared to say that they could pinch Zhang Benzhihe?
But if you can't win Zhang Benzhihe, the 2024 Paris Olympics men's singles competition, maybe China is really going to encounter Waterloo, just after the end of this game, the commentator world champion Guo Yan also commented on Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong, two Chinese athletes who lost to Zhang Benzhihe, and she publicly said that there are serious problems in the national table tennis duo. She felt that Fan Zhendong was not domineering, and Wang Chuqin lacked courage at the critical moment. Wang Chuqin played Zhang Benzhi and basically lost brittlely, that is, won the first set, but was turned over three times in a row. To say that he has not studied Zhang Benzhi and it is impossible, the Japanese team is really famous this time, the core players who came to participate in the competition are Zhang Benzhi and the rest are not OK, the ranking is in the dozens or even farther, it is obvious that the Chinese team should take Zhang Ben as the biggest target to study, the result is that you have not played him after the study, this can not prove that he is very strong?
Are the ones who need to carry the pot Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin? The two of them have almost been identified as players who can represent the national table tennis singles in 2024, when Wang Chuqin is 24 years old and very young, Fan Zhendong is the peak of his career, and if he can't beat Zhang Benzhihe at that time, who can still help the national table tennis defend the men's singles championship, do you still want Ma Long to continue to play? By then, two years later, Malone would be 36 years old.
The problem of these two people now is very obvious, Fan Zhendong really does not have the domineering spirit of the previous main force, not only does not have the domineering spirit of Ma Long, the domineering spirit of Zhang Jike, etc., he does not have it, and he has not passed it down at all. Fan Zhendong is a bit like his master Wang Hao, that is, the hard power is very strong, but it lacks a kind of domineering, and it is always impossible to kick in the door. Wang Chuqin is now not enough hard power, and his psychological quality may be good, but he does not have this strength. Lin Gaoyuan is relatively high in strength, but his psychological quality is not good, and he cannot beat Zhang Benzhihe, which is a very embarrassing situation.
Therefore, if the problems of these two people are not changed, they will not be able to go to the Olympics at all, and even if they go to the Olympic Games, they are likely to continue to lose. Zhang Benzhihe doesn't have any pressure, he belongs to me now, as long as I know that I play the Chinese team, I have no pressure, because losing is normal, winning is more glorious, that's it. If the problem of Fan Zhendong and Datou is not solved, it is not only the rise of Zhang Benzhihe in the future that awaits China, after all, he is only 19 years old, but more importantly, what you will lose in two years may be the Olympic singles champion. Because there is no one who can support the bottom by then, Ma Long may not be able to play singles in the Olympic Games again, and others are even more unstable.