Don't look at the Japanese table tennis in 2023, it has little advantage over the national table tennis, but it does have a direct impact on Sun Yingsha, who is ranked No. 1 in the world. Zhang Benmei and Sun Yingsha were forced to a tiebreaker, you must know that the two sides only fought twice. The next encounter is really unknown, don't look at the age of this player who is only a teenager, the speed of progress is beyond the imagination of the national table tennis coaching staff.
In the eyes of many national table tennis coaches, Zhang Benmeihe is too young, and in the initial expectations, it will be difficult for Zhang Benmeihe to catch the last train of the Paris Olympics. Zhang Benmeihe has been participating in international competitions continuously since 2022 and taking the initiative to make efforts, and entering 2023 is like riding a rocket.
Especially in the finals, she almost beat Sun Yingsha in an upset, and she was surprised not only by the party Sun Yingsha, but also by the national table tennis coaching staff and fans. It is very difficult for a 15-year-old player to participate in the Olympic Games in national table tennis, or there is no precedent for this. Guo Yue, a former national table tennis player, participated in the Olympic Games at the age of 16, just in time for the rejuvenation reform of national table tennis, and no young player has been able to do this since.
At present, Japanese table tennis is vigorously promoting young players, and Misei Ito and Miu Hirano rose in the table tennis world at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and are known as the golden generation of Japanese table tennis. Although they are only in their early 20s now, they are completely different from the impact on national table tennis when they were teenagers. Now it seems that Hina Hayada is a transitional player at most, because she can't even win against the veteran Chen Meng, a veteran of national table tennis, and the possibility of impacting Sun Yingsha is too small.
Hina Hayada is indeed not as threatening as Misei Ito and Miyu Hirano to national table tennis, and it is difficult to find a win against the main force of national table tennis is Hina Hayata's biggest shortcoming. Misei Ito and Miyu Hirano had defeated the main force of national table tennis in a row when they were teenagers, and directly let Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning, and Zhu Yuling withdraw from the Olympic singles competition in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, changing the Olympic lineup of national table tennis.
Now Zhang Benmeihe is a variable, in fact, Zhang Benmeihe is also very anxious, she wants to catch the last train of the Paris Olympics. Don't think that it was an accident that she forced Sun Yingsha to the tiebreaker, Zhang Benmeihe only defeated Sun Yingsha to make the Japanese table tennis coaching staff change the Olympic lineup. Because Sun Yingsha has a high ranking, she is also the first choice for singles in the National Table Tennis Olympics.
If Sun Yingsha can be defeated, then Japanese table tennis will at least be able to allow Zhang Benmeihe to participate in the Olympic team event. Although the Japanese table tennis team selects the singles quota for the Olympic Games through domestic competitions, the quota for who participates in the team competition is determined by the Japanese table tennis coaching staff themselves. That is to say, the Japanese table tennis passed the domestic selection competition, and only determined the two singles candidates for the Olympic Games, and the last candidate was the Japanese table tennis coaching staff.
It can be seen that the choice of Japanese table tennis in the Paris Olympics cycle still adds a certain degree of flexibility. Because Hina Hayada was not allowed to participate in the team competition in the last Olympic cycle, it has been proved through the Olympic Games that if Hina Hayada participates in the team competition, she can indeed play a role as a miracle, at least she can have a direct impact on the national table tennis, rather than being swept away.
Therefore, in 2024, Zhang Benmeihe will seize every opportunity to impact the main force of national table tennis, unless he can't meet Sun Yingsha all the time, as long as he meets Sun Yingsha in the game, Zhang Benmeihe will definitely try his best to defeat Sun Yingsha. If Zhang Benmei and others can't beat Sun Yingsha like Hina Hayata, it doesn't matter whether they participate in the Olympics or not.
Zhang Benmeihe is a naturalized player after all, if she and her brother Zhang Benzhihe have less impact on national table tennis and are not threatening to the main players of national table tennis, Japanese table tennis will definitely give the quota to local players. Because training is the same for everyone, since it is temporarily impossible to impact the main force of national table tennis, table tennis will continue to lie dormant that day, waiting for the opportunity to impact in the future.
Japanese table tennis is becoming more and more vigorous in cultivating young players, and Matsushima Teruku's sister Misora Matsushima became a professional player in the league at the age of 8. Don't look at Zhang Benmeihe, who is only 15 years old, maybe there will be such a young Japanese table tennis player who will rise rapidly in the future to surpass Zhang Benmeihe. This is the essence of the Japanese table tennis generation to train players, which just verifies the saying that a generation of newcomers replace the old.
Japanese table tennis is to cultivate more juvenile prodigy players, because they also know that once Japanese table tennis players reach adulthood, after the playing style is fixed, they will be focused on by national table tennis, and it is difficult to have that kind of amazing performance. So now Zhang Benmeihe is a good time to impact the national table tennis players, although her future is not optimistic about the national table tennis fans, but the national table tennis must also deal with the present.
The current national table tennis focuses on training Chen Meng and Wang Yidi to participate in the Olympic Games, and if Miyu Hirano achieves good results in the All-Day Championships in January 2024 and gets the Olympic singles quota, it will definitely have an important impact on Chen Meng and Wang Yidi.
Because of this, Hina Hayada and Miyu Hirano participated in the singles competition of the Olympic Games, and Chen Meng and Wang Yidi faced off against these two players. There are only two candidates for the Olympic Games, whether it is Chen Meng or Wang Yidi who gets the singles quota, they must have the strength to defend the singles semi-zone.
Miyu Hirano's impact on Chen Meng and Wang Yidi is still quite strong, even against Sun Yingsha. In this way, the coaching staff is bound to adjust the Olympic lineup, and if Zhang Benmeihe gets the quota for the Olympic team event again, then whether Chen Meng and Wang Yidi can participate in the team competition remains to be tested.
Because whether these two players play against Miwa Zhangmoto, Hina Hayata, or Miu Hirano, they may be dragged to the tiebreaker. There are too many accidental factors in the tiebreaker, so Zhang Benmei and Hirano Miyu will participate, Chen Meng and Wang Yidi's challenge will increase, and the coaching staff can only passively adjust the lineup.