On May 11, Beijing time, nine days before the start of the Durban World Table Tennis Championships, the Japanese team suddenly announced an important decision, that is, to change the list of participants, hope star Shinozuka Dadeng withdrew due to injury, national champion Yukiya Uda won the men's singles, mixed doubles (with Miyu Kihara) qualifications, while Zhang Motochi and the men's doubles partner were replaced by world champion Maharu Yoshimura.
Only 19-year-old Shinozuka Daden is a rare athlete with outstanding results in foreign battles in Japanese men's table tennis recently, and the civil war has also swept Tomokazu Chang, but he did not expect to withdraw due to injury before the start of the World Table Tennis Championships, which is really unlucky!
Shinozuka Daden, born in 2003, is a few months younger than Tomokazu Chang, a young player who began to rise last year, won the men's singles championship in international competitions, won the world champions Zhuang Zhiyuan, Falk and others, broke through the Chinese team's defense line many times, and swept Tomokazu Chang 3-0 in the T League in Japan, which is regarded by many fans as a new hope for the Japanese table tennis world.
Prior to this, many athletes of the Japanese men's team were generally "civil war insiders and outsiders", and the three national champions Yukiya Uda, Hayasuke Togami, and Ruiki Kawami were all like this, so Shinozuka Daden was very likely to become an important opponent of national table tennis.
However, after the arrival of April 2023, Shinozuka Daden's physical condition is very poor, first withdrew from the WTT Thailand Star Tournament, and then missed the very important fourth Japanese Table Tennis Olympic Trials in May, originally everyone thought that he would still fight for the World Table Tennis Championships, after all, it is a biennial session, the opportunity is rare, but Shinozuka Daden still gave up.
With Shinozuka Daitō's withdrawal, the Japanese team had to adjust the registration schedule for three events, of which Yukiya Uda became the biggest winner, he was able to substitute for the men's singles qualification, and the mixed doubles will replace Shinozuka Daiteng and work with Miyu Kihara.
Relatively speaking, the changes in the Japanese men's doubles are more worthy of the attention of the national table tennis table, because Tomoka Zhang and / Shinozuka Daden disintegrated and became Tomokaza Zhang and / Maharu Yoshimura - before that, Maharu Yoshimura once defeated Ma Long in the Asian qualifiers of the World Table Tennis Championships in early 2023, and won the mixed doubles championship of the World Table Tennis Championships in 2017, and the strength is not under Shinozuka Daden, which is worth guarding against.
Recently, there have been changes in German and Japanese men's table tennis players, Boll and Shinozuka Daden have left, but the list of national table tennis is still relatively stable, and I expect the Chinese team to achieve good results in South Africa and win the five World Table Tennis Championships: Come on!