Japan's big upset! Liu Guodong's 2:3 country is coming, and in Japan, Zhang Benmeihe, the meritorious coach is helpless
On February 24, Beijing time, the 2024 Busan World Table Tennis Team Championships is underway, and the women's team semifinals are underway. After entering the knockout round, the national table tennis coaching staff was very conservative and kept arranging world champions Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, and Wang Yidi to play, resulting in Olympic champions Wang Manyu and Chen Xingtong not playing a game.
Next, another women's team semi-final continued, with Japan taking on Hong Kong, China. In the last round, the Japanese women's team was 3:0 Romania. Among them, Olympic champion Misei Ito played five games and defeated Szokos with an aggregate score of 3:2. After the game, Ito said that this was his second game, and he was very happy to play in such a good atmosphere. This match was not easy for Ito, and of course the opponent Szokos was very strong.
However, in the semifinals of the women's team, the Japanese coaching staff did not arrange for Misei Ito to play, but chose to use the Olympic lineup of the Japanese women's team, Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano, Mimi Zhang and the three. Because the Japanese Olympic squad has been released in advance, arranging for the three of them to compete is also a test for them. In the first set of the game, Japan's Zhang Benmei and against Hong Kong, China's Du Kaiqin, this World Table Tennis Championships, Du Kaiqin's competitive state is not bad, and he has made many meritorious contributions.
In the first game, Zhang Benmeihe played very fiercely, leading 6:3 at the beginning, and Zhang Benmeihe was very fast in the near stage, reacted quickly, and led 7:5. The backhand position is in each other's hands, and Du Kaiqin has been adding spins. In the middle game, Du Kaiqin stubbornly tied the score, and the two sides drew 7:7. Then Du Kaiqin scored four points in a row and won the first game 11:7. It can be found that in the face of Zhang Benmeihe, Du Kaiqin is very difficult and prepared.
In the second game, Zhang Benmeihe took the lead again at the beginning, and in the middle game, Du Kaiqin tried his best and gradually overtook the score, leading 8:6. Zhang Benmei and chased to 7:8, and then Du Kaiqin decisively asked for a timeout. After the pause, Zhang Benmei and 9:8 overtook the score, but the key point Du Kaiqin still won another game 11:9, and the desire to win was very strong, and the big score was 2:0 ahead of Zhang Benmeihe.
Next, Zhang Benmeihe began a big reversal in the case of a back-to-back battle, winning two games in a row 11:4 and 11:6, and the two sides tied 2:2. In the deciding game, Zhang Benmei and 6:3 took the lead at the beginning, Zhang Benmei and locked the victory with 11:5, and the total score was 3:2 against Du Kaiqin. Zhang Benmeihe is really very tenacious, and when the big score is 0:2 behind, he completes the reversal. In this way, the women's singles was a big upset, Liu Guodong's beloved apprentice Du Kaiqin lost to Zhang Benmeihe 2:3, and the meritorious coach Liu Guodong was also helpless.