Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha lost to Japan 1-2, and Zhang Benmei cheered to celebrate the victory
On the evening of December 9, Beijing time, the Chengdu Table Tennis Mixed Team World Cup ushered in the peak showdown between the two teams of China and Japan, of which the first set of the matchup arrangement is Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha VS Hayasuke Togami/Zhang Benmeiwa - the former is currently the strongest mixed doubles combination in national table tennis, but the latter is not Japan's number one pair in this event, so it is generally believed that the suspense of this ball is average.
However, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha encountered great difficulties in this battle, and finally was reversed 1-2 in the case of a 1-0 lead, and missed the first place for the Chinese team, and this result was probably unexpected by the Japanese team: Sending Hayasuke Togami / Miwa Zhang Ben to play is just to create opportunities for Tomokazu Zhang and Hina Hayada to participate in the singles, but I didn't expect to win, what an accident!
See below for a detailed breakdown of the battle.
As we all know, the mixed doubles of table tennis between China and Japan are very strong, but Japan currently only has Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hina Hayada who is up to the task, but this also makes it difficult for their coaches, because the two are also the best singles athletes in the team, and according to the rules of the mixed team competition, players participating in mixed doubles can no longer play in singles, so they can only choose one of the two.
In the end, the Japanese coach still decided to sacrifice the mixed doubles and force to play, so he abandoned Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hina Hayata, and replaced it with a new combination of Hayasuke Togami / Miwa Zhangmoto, while the national table tennis was based on stability, and sent the world's No. 1 Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha to participate in the battle.
After the start of the game, the national table tennis combination took the lead and continued to suppress the opponent successfully in the first game, achieving a great lead. Compared with Hayasuke Togami/Miwa Zhangmoto, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha not only have more outstanding individual abilities, but also cooperate more tacitly, and the Japanese pair actually did not work together for a long time, and there were deficiencies in all aspects, and then lost a city 5-11.
In the second game, the Japanese players fought fiercely, and scored 7 points in a row at the beginning, but then Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha launched a rapid offensive, and constantly counterattacked to the point where there was only a 3-point difference of 5-8, at this time the Japanese coach was a little panicked, and hurriedly called a timeout to adjust, after all, now is their best chance to upset, and if they miss this village, there will be no such store!
After returning to the court, Hayasuke Togami/Zhang Benmei stabilized his mentality and scored 1 more point to open the gap, but the national table tennis combination was also chasing after him step by step, and even overtook 10-9 to get the game point, but then the two sides hit each other to 11 draws, and the result was that Hayasuke Togami/Zhang Benmei narrowly won 13-11, and the game entered a tiebreaker.
In the third game, the competition between the two sides was still very fierce, Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha was reversed at the beginning, Hayasuke Togami/Zhang Benmei and Gang were tied soon after, both sides played a very high-quality attack, and finally the national table tennis world champion combination lost the whole game 9-11, Hayasuke Togami, Zhang Benmei and other Japanese players cheered to celebrate the victory: I really didn't expect it!