On February 5, Beijing time, the Japanese Table Tennis Association and the table tennis team announced the list of the Paris Olympic Games, and the Chinese brothers and sisters Tomokazu Zhang (20 years old) and Miwa Zhang (15 years old) received good news and were both shortlisted, which aroused the attention of fans, and afterwards the two also congratulated each other on the Internet, in which Zhang Benmei and replied:
"I can go with my brother!
Prior to this, Tomokazu Zhang had said that his wish was to compete in the Olympic Games with his sister, and now his dream has finally come true, and the two have naturally become the pride of their parents, which is indeed terrifying!
Tomokazu Zhangmoto and Miwa Zhangmoto are both Japanese athletes whose ancestral home is Sichuan, and their parents - Zhang Benyu and Zhang Benling are also former Chinese table tennis players, and their mothers have been selected for the national team and participated in the world championships.
Tomokazu Zhangmoto, who was born in 2003, was selected for the Japanese team as early as the Tokyo Olympics, and previously defeated Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan and other national table tennis players, and won the men's singles runner-up in the World Cup.
As for Zhang Benmeihe, she is also very strong, although she was born in 2008, although she is not yet 16 years old, she has already defeated Qian Tianyi, Ito Misei, Hirano Miyu, Ishikawa Kasumi, Hayada Hina, Kihara Miyu, Nagasaki Miyu, Shin Yubin and other masters, and not long ago won the women's singles runner-up in the Japanese Table Tennis National Championships, which is really powerful.
Therefore, soon after the arrival of the Paris Olympic cycle, the Zhang brothers and sisters became the popular candidates for the competition, among which the elder brother has a stable position and won the three qualifications of the men's team, men's singles and mixed doubles as he wishes, while the younger sister's road to the top is relatively bumpy.
Due to the late debut time and the fierce competition in Japanese women's table tennis than men's table tennis, Miwa Zhangmoto did not begin to soar until 2023, and only won the fourth place in the team selection standings, so the singles were determined to be defeated, and the team almost missed the Olympic qualification, but she was still recommended by the Japan Table Tennis Association, and finally squeezed out the Olympic champion Misei Ito and was shortlisted.
Now that the Zhang brothers and sisters have both qualified for the Olympics, it can be seen how important the status of this family is in the Japanese table tennis world, so can they pose a threat to the Chinese team in Paris?