The third day of the World Table Tennis Championships: 5 world champions lost! The national table tennis qualified ahead of schedule, and Zhang Benzhihe was undefeated

On the evening of February 18, Beijing time, the 2024 Busan World Table Tennis Championships ended the third day of competition.

In terms of foreign associations, the two teams of Japan, South Korea, Germany, and France have also won three consecutive victories, while the women's teams of Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, China, and Romania and the men's teams of Sweden, Portugal, and Singapore have also qualified in advance. But even so, with a number of big names already losing, including five world champions, the competition is fierce!

The first phase of the World Table Tennis Championships fully implements the group round-robin, each group is five teams, and the top three can be passed, and the qualification rate is as high as 60%, so the slightly stronger teams can easily achieve this goal, and winning three games in a row can win the game, and losing one, or even two, may not necessarily be eliminated.

In the previous game, the Chinese men's team won a big victory, beating Belgium, Cuba and Hungary 3-0 in three games, and only lost two games in total;

The performance of the Japanese team is more brilliant than the national table tennis, because they have only lost one game so far, that is, Shinozuka Daden lost 2-3 to Lin Yunru, but the rest of the men's and women's players remain undefeated, especially Tomokazu Zhangmoto, who is in great shape, winning the most difficult game in the group stage, and at the same time a top level, that is, defeating Lin Yunru 3-2 to ensure that the team continues to take the lead.

The host South Korean team has suffered some shocks, including the men's team Ahn Jae-hyun (World Table Tennis Championships men's singles third place) lost 1-3 to Poland's Dias, and the women's team Shin Yubin (World Table Tennis Championships women's doubles runner-up) lost 0-3 to Puerto Rico's A. Diaz, but with the overall advantage, the two South Korean teams still lead their respective groups and have entered the threshold of the knockout round.

The performance of the German team was unsatisfactory, as the second seed of the men's team, they were forced into a desperate situation by the Kazakhstan team, the world champion Ocharov and the European champion Qiu Dang both lost to the opposite number one main force Glasmenko, but in the end they won 3-2 on aggregate, and the women's team Germany has also lost the Olympic runner-up Shan Xiaona.

The former five-time men's team champion Sweden team was in distress in the competition with Hong Kong, China, Carlberg and Moregaard lost to the direct shooting star Huang Zhenting, but in the end, the whole team also won 3-2 on aggregate - Glasmenko and Huang Zhenting were both defeated by 2 points, dragged down by their teammates, which is embarrassing.

At present, five world champions participating in the World Table Tennis Championships have been defeated, in addition to the aforementioned Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, and Ocharov, there are also Chinese Taipei's Zhuang Zhiyuan (lost to Japan's Matsushima Terukor), Luxembourg's Ni Xialian (lost to Japan's Miwa Zhangmoto, Brazil's Takahashi Bruna).

In addition, the world champion Miyu Hirano and others were also forced into a desperate situation by their opponents, Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Meng both fell behind and reversed, which shows that the battle situation is indeed very fierce, so will there be any upsets in the next game? Who can become the new big dark horse? The suspense still exists, let's sit back and wait for the new big war to begin!