Japan's "Yahoo Sports" recently interviewed Japanese Chinese player Tomokazu Zhangmoto. When Tomokazu Zhang recently talked about the gap between Chinese table tennis and Japanese table tennis, he talked about the gap between China at the technical and tactical level. Even in terms of top-notch young table tennis talents, Japan has surpassed China.
Judging from the recent World Table Tennis Championships, it is basically Japan that really poses a challenge to Chinese table tennis, and even Japan is the final finalist, and it is very difficult for other associations to enter the semi-finals. Judging from the last three World Table Tennis Championships, Chengdu, Durban and Busan, Japan is indeed the team that has caused the most trouble for Chinese table tennis.
Tomokazu Zhang believes that the biggest advantage of Chinese table tennis is their champion coaching team and high-level sparring team, which is incomparable to China's table tennis in many countries and associations. Due to the virtuous cycle of nearly 30 years, China's table tennis has irreversible leadership advantages in the ITTF, and the long-term team combat culture and coaching team are well connected with table tennis talents at all levels. Other associations are unable to imitate China, and even if they imitate, they are only simple imitations in terms of playing style and techniques and tactics, but they are still unable to imitate in terms of cultural heritage and psychology, and there is still a big difference between them and China in big and small competitions.
At present, the Chinese women's table tennis team still retains the team advantage, and the technical and tactical and top players still have an advantage of 2-3 years among the athletes born around 2000. In other age groups, Japan, South Korea and France are all closing in on China. Including Japan's former world champion and retired Mizutani Hayabusa, he also believes that the advantages of Chinese table tennis are not only at the technical and tactical level, but also in the championship culture and high-level training in the past 30 years, which are difficult for other countries to imitate.
Yoshimura Maharu, who won the Olympic team silver medal with Japan in 2016, also believes that the gap in technology has been narrowed or even flattened when talking about the gap between China and Japan in table tennis, but China is still like a wall in front of Japan and cannot be crossed. Japan's Mizutani Hayabusa, Niwa Takashi, Yoshimura Maharu have all fought Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Ma Long and other generations, Matsushita Koji has fought with Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui and their generation, He Zhili and Deng Yaping, who once planned Japan, have also fought their generation, but they have not succeeded, and the historical responsibility has fallen on Zhang Benzhi and his brothers and sisters, Matsushima Terukong These young people.
When Tomokazu Zhang talked about his future table tennis career ideals, his biggest ideal is to help Japan one day complete the reversal of Chinese table tennis, even if he can't do it as a player, he hopes to help Japan reverse China after retiring as a coach, so that Japanese table tennis can move towards revival and recreate the glory of Japanese history. Tomokazu Zhang also said that now he is playing ball and going to college at the same time, hoping to achieve a double harvest in his studies and table tennis career.