The recent Macau World Cup is in full swing, and in the just-concluded men's singles group stage, Zhang Benzhihe eliminated his opponent Grote and won the first place in the group to advance to the round of 16.
However, although Tomokazu Zhang won the ticket to the knockout round, after the end of this match, the WTT World Table Tennis Federation's approach caused public anger and was questioned by many fans.
Zhang Ben Tomokazu did not play well in this game, although his world ranking and strength are much ahead of his opponent, but he himself is a very slow player, so he lost the first game directly as soon as the game came up, although he frantically chased the score, but in the end Zhang Ben Tomokazu was still forced to draw 2-2 by this young player, forcing him to the edge of life and death of promotion.
What is controversial is that after the end of this game, the outside world thought that Zhang Benzhihe had been eliminated, because from the data displayed on the official website of the International Table Tennis Federation, Zhang Benzhi and him and the opponent won the same number of sets, but the calculation of the score ratio, the opponent was 0:04 points higher than Zhang Benzhihe, and the official website also ranked according to the ratio of this win-loss score, and it was determined that Grote could advance to the top 16 at the beginning.
As a result, many fans were very speechless that a few minutes later, WTT officials corrected this statement, emphasizing that Tomokazu Zhang had a small point advantage against his opponent, and the total score was three points more, and finally won the first place in the group and advanced to the round of 16, while Grote was very regrettable to be eliminated.
Outrageous, some fans found that after the official confirmed that Zhang Benzhihe got the ticket to the knockout round, their official website also secretly deleted Grote's score, and fans speculated that perhaps the International Table Tennis Federation was worried that it would be difficult to justify itself, so the previous display of the win-loss ratio was canceled.
There is no doubt that this time it is entirely the problem of the organizing committee, they have determined the format of the group stage and the knockout stage, but they have not determined some specific details, such as the embarrassing scene in this game, whether the ranking will be based on the ratio of winning and losing points when the scores of the players on both sides are the same, or according to the total number of small points played by the two sides?
Therefore, the rules must be determined before the start of the game, otherwise the rules will be temporarily finalized after the end of the game, and I believe that the eliminated players will be very unconvinced. After all, judging from the data displayed on the official website, the players themselves thought they had been promoted, but they were all eliminated because of the change of rules.
If they want to make the IP of table tennis bigger and bigger, and want more players to pay attention to and participate in the competition, they must do their work in place to ensure that the interests of each player can be protected, otherwise there will be more and more similar things, which will make these participating players feel chilled in the future.