On April 17, the group stage of the 2024 Macau ITTF World Cup continued, and there was a dramatic scene in the 10th group of Tomokazu Zhangmoto, who regained the chance to advance after announcing his elimination.
In today's game, Tomokazu Zhang drew 2-2 with Denmark's Grote, but the official broadcast score board after the game showed that Tomokazu Zhang was ranked second in the group due to the disadvantage of goal difference, and the Japanese media and Chinese media reported the news for the first time.
However, then the WTT World Table Tennis Federation officially released news that because Tomokazu Zhang and Grote had the same game score, only the small score between the two was competed, and Tomokazu Zhang became the top of the group and advanced to the round of 16. Perhaps because this is the first time that the new format has been implemented, but this format makes this simple win-loss game a game that has become a computational and mathematical ability, which may have increased the drama of the game, but with the way the ITTF now organizes the competition, it is easy to cause greater controversy.
This time, Zhang Benzhi and the oolong that eliminated and advanced again are not the first oolong that the ITTF has made recently, and the frequent occurrence of oolong incidents can't help but make people question, the ITTF is a grass team.