Tomokazu Zhang suffered a fiasco! He was beaten 1-11 in a single game, lost two consecutive games in the World Cup, and Japan suffered its first defeat
On the afternoon of December 8th, Beijing time, the Chengdu Table Tennis Mixed Team World Cup ushered in a high-profile showdown, the two major rivals of national table tennis - the third seed Japan team and the fourth seed South Korea team launched a fierce battle, as a result, Tomokazu Zhang Ben and men's singles all lost, and the men's doubles single game was even beaten 1-11, and his sister Miwa Zhang and teammate Hayasuke Togami also lost the mixed doubles, and only Hina Hayada won one.
In the end, the Japanese team lost to South Korea 4-8 and suffered the first defeat in the overall score: At present, it seems that Japan's men's table tennis players are still relatively lagging behind, and only Zhang Benzhihe can play in the foreign war, and he will be too passive if he loses! Please see below for the detailed battle situation.
Highlights of the game
Friends who pay attention to the table tennis world know that Japan and South Korea are currently the strongest teams of foreign associations, this time they are almost all the main forces except for Ito Misei and Xu Xiaoyuan and others who did not come, and the two teams have their own strengths, Japanese mixed doubles and women's singles are stronger, South Korea women's doubles and men's doubles are powerful, but the gap is not particularly large, as for the men's singles, everyone is half a catty, so the arrangement is very interesting.
After the match table comes out, we will find that both sides gave up strategically in the first set of mixed doubles and did not send the strongest lineup, Japan tried to protect Hina Hayata, Tomokazu Zhangmoto and the upper singles, and South Korea wanted to report the men's and women's doubles, which is indeed a battle of wits and courage.
The process of the game
In the first set of mixed doubles, Japan sent Hayasuke Togami / Miwa Zhang Moto to participate in the battle, and South Korea was Lee Sang-so/Tian Zhixi - as mentioned earlier, neither side was the strongest mixed doubles pair in the team, and they were not very familiar with each other, so it was difficult to solve the game when they came up, and the Japanese pair narrowly won 11-9 to take the lead, but then lost 7-11 and collapsed 9-11, and the South Korean team managed to take the lead.
In the second set, South Korea sent Kim Na-young, a young woman who did not finish in the top two, to challenge Hina Hayata, hoping to take advantage of the Japanese player's unfamiliarity with her to win in the chaos, and on the other hand, it can be regarded as a horse race: abandoning women's singles and women's doubles (in fact, mixed doubles).
Sure enough, Kim Na Ying did create a lot of difficulties for Hina Hayata, although she lost 8-11 in the first game, but then pulled back a city 11-9, although she lost 5-11 in the third game, but objectively speaking, under the new format, if Hina Hayada can't keep a clean sheet against the opponent, the Japanese team will be very uncomfortable, because the further they play, the more pressure they will have on the women's doubles and men's doubles.
The third set of men's singles is a real strong duel between the two sides, the two world runners-up Tomokazu Zhang and Zhang Yuzhen met to start a fierce battle, the two are currently ranked 11th and 10th in the world respectively, and have made many moves before, winning and losing each other, which is very interesting!
After the start of the game, the two fought very fiercely, Zhang Benzhihe won the first game with a narrow advantage of 2 points 11-9, and in the second game 2-8 behind the chase to 11-10, but then lost 11-13, the Japanese team was very uncomfortable: not to mention whether Zhang Benzhihe could win the last game, even if he could, he could not open the gap in the total score.
And the fact is that Tomokazu Zhang did not win the third game, although he played the last 2 points, but in the end he still lost the whole game 9-11, and the Japanese team fell behind again with a total score of 1-2, and then it was the turn of the Korean team to play the men's and women's doubles.
Japan, which fell behind in the fourth set, chose to let Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hayasuke Togami play men's doubles, opposite the world No. 2 Zhang Yuzhen/Lim Jong-hoon, but Zhang Yuzhen has just finished playing men's singles after all, and she is physically and mentally tired, which may affect the state of men's doubles, but this battle ended in a fiasco for the Japanese team -
After losing 8-11 and 9-11 in a row, Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hayasuke Togami was swept 1-11 in the third game, and the South Korean team defeated Japan 8-4 on aggregate, and the game ended here.