Recently, the 2023-2024 regular season of the Japanese T-League was announced, and Kinoshita Tokyo's Hayashi Yunru and Kinoshita Kanagawa's Miwa Haramoto became the biggest winners, as they won the 2023–2024 T-League Most Valuable Male and Female Player awards, respectively. The best MVP for men and women will receive 1 million yen (about 47,600 yuan), and Lin Yunru won the best male player with 16 wins and 2 losses in singles and 1 win and 2 losses in doubles. Zhang Benmeihe won the Best Female Player Award with a record of 12-6 in singles and 5-1 in doubles. These two are really worth paying attention to.
They are worth paying attention to, not only in the domestic arena, but also in the international arena. Lin Yunru reached the semi-finals of the recently concluded Singapore Grand Slam tournament, winning many famous players in a row, including Francesca, who eliminated Ma Long, to advance to the semi-finals, only to lose 2-4 to Liang Jingkun. Lin Yunru, who feels that he is in good shape, is still very competitive, and he and the main players of national table tennis Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, and Wang Chuqinbao all have wins and losses against each other. For example, in the 2019 T2 Diamond League, he defeated Fan Zhendong, and in the first match of the men's singles semifinals of the WTT Frankfurt Championship last year, Lin Yunru defeated Wang Chuqin 4-2 and successfully advanced to the final. In the final, Lin Yunru defeated Ma Long 4-1 after falling behind in the first game to win the championship, while earning 1,000 singles points and $35,000 in prize money.
In addition, Lin Yunru also won the WTT Macau Championship in 2022, and he also won the Open Men's Singles title for the first time in the men's singles final of the Czech Open 2019 with a 4-1 victory over Ocharov. Lin Yunru and Wang Chuqin, Zhang Benzhihe, and Sweden's Moregard are considered the most powerful post-zero players.
As for Zhang Benmei and her winning so many honors at home and abroad at such a young age, they are indeed very good. Even Deng Yaping once said that Zhang Benmeihe's potential and threat to the Chinese team are higher than her brother Zhang Ben Zhihe. Now 15 years old, she has qualified for the third team in Paris. She has also defeated members of the national table tennis team such as Chen Yi and Qian Tianyi of the Chinese team.
Although Zhang Benmeihe has not yet broken through the main players of the Chinese team, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, etc., she was able to play the fifth game of the deciding game with Sun Yingsha and Xiao Sasha in the finals in Nagoya, and the women's team final of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships also won a game from Chen Meng. Do you think so?