The 2024 Table Tennis Macau Singles World Cup has come to an end, and the current semi-finals list has been released, and the six main players of national table tennis have been promoted, and the remaining two positions all belong to members of the same family, that is, Japanese Chinese brothers and sisters - Tomokazu Zhang (20 years old), Miwa Zhang (15 years old).
The fact that the siblings both reached the semi-finals of singles, one of the three major tournaments in table tennis, is enough to go down in the history of table tennis, and if nothing else, they may continue to threaten the Chinese team for at least the next ten years.
Friends who pay attention to the table tennis world know that many famous players have excellent family heritage, but it is very rare for two world-class athletes to appear in a family at the same time, such as Liu Guoliang's brother Liu Guodong could only be a sparring partner for the women's team in the national table tennis back then, Waldner's brother only has the level of playing in the lower leagues, and Ishikawa Kasumi's sister is also a third-rate level.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as Belgium's Sever brothers, who have been famous and created many achievements in the international arena, and today's table tennis world also has France's Lebrun brothers and Japan's Zhang Ben brothers and sisters.
As far as the singles field is concerned, the performance of the Zhang brothers and sisters can be said to be unprecedented, because they not only reached the semi-finals in the World Series, but also did it "synchronously" in the same World Cup, which is really impressive. What's even more commendable is that the Zhang brothers and sisters did this at a very young age-
The elder brother Tomokazu Haramoto was born in 2003 and is not yet 21 years old, and the younger sister Miwa Haramoto was born in 2008 and is not yet 16 years old. In this regard, fans can't help but sigh: the two children are indeed the pride of their parents!
At present, it seems that there is not much suspense for the Zhang Ben brothers and sisters to join forces to dominate the Japanese table tennis world, in fact, Tomokazu Zhang has basically done this, and Zhang Benmei is only weak to Hina Hayada now, and Miu Hirano, Misei Ito, Miyu Kihara, and Miyu Nagasaki are not inferior to her, but even Hina Hayada is 8 years older than her, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to compete with young people in a few years.
So in the competition against the national table tennis, will the Zhang brothers and sisters have a new breakthrough? The future is unpredictable, let's wait and see the situation of this World Cup together, and see if Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Manyu can suppress them!