He gave up his Chinese nationality and went to Japan, and now he has been elected the best coach and has become a big problem for national table tennis
On March 22, Beijing time, the 2023-2024 Japanese Table Tennis T-League held a regular season award ceremony, and Chinese coach Rui Nakazawa was elected as the best coach, which aroused strong attention from netizens.
According to reports, this is the second consecutive year that Rui Nakazawa has been elected as the best coach of the regular season of the Japanese table tennis T-League, and his coaching ability has been recognized and affirmed by Japanese public opinion. In addition, Rui Nakazawa will also receive a prize of 100,000 yen. Rui Nakazawa is the head coach of Japan's Kinoshita Kanagawa Table Tennis Club, and has four active Japanese national players, known as "Kinoshita Four Beauty", Miwa Zhangmoto, Miyu Hirano, Miyu Kihara, and Miyu Nagaki, and also introduced Chinese players He Zhuojia and Zhang Rui, two foreign aids, and the overall strength is very strong. Rui Nakazawa led Kinoshita Kanagawa FC to No. 1 in the regular season with a 16-4 record and a total of 58 points, and deservedly won the title of Best Coach.
Speaking of Rui Nakazawa, viewers who are familiar with table tennis know that he is also from China like Tomokazu Zhang and Miwa Zhang's parents. Formerly known as Wang Rui, he was a player in Hebei table tennis. Due to the fierce competition in national table tennis, coupled with injuries and other influences, he chose to retire at the age of 24. Around 2002, Wang Rui went to Japan to settle down, and six years later changed his nationality to join Japan, and changed his name to Rui Nakazawa, mainly engaged in table tennis coaching. In 2015, Nakazawa Rui was hired by the Japan Table Tennis Association as the coach of the junior elite team, and handed over an answer sheet that attracted the attention of the world, leading his disciple Miyu Hirano to defeat Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling, and Chen Meng at the 2017 Asian Championships to win the championship.
However, Rui Nakazawa did not continue to be reused as expected, and was even forced to part ways with his lover Miu Hirano. After a period of time, Rui Nakazawa was hired as the head coach of Kinoshita's Kanagawa Table Tennis Club, not only reuniting with Miu Hirano, but also recruiting two members of the former elite youth team, Miyu Kihara and Miyu Nagasaki. Under the tutelage of Rui Nakazawa, Miyu Hirano walked out of the state of being completely unable to beat the Chinese team after being studied by the national table tennis coaching staff in the past few years, although it is still more wins and more losses, but at least the scene has been greatly improved, and Rui Nakazawa's coaching ability has been shown again, and it has become a big problem for national table tennis.