The best results below the national table tennis in the Macau World Cup, counting the seven Japanese table tennis, the glory of the Zhang family
The 2024 ITTF Macau World Cup ended, and the Chinese table tennis team won a big victory: Ma Long and Sun Yingsha won the championship, and Lin Gaoyuan and Wang Manyu won the silver.
The best result below the national table tennis level is undoubtedly the Japanese team. Zhang Benzhi and his brother and sister have set a new record in the World Cup.
Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Miwa Zhangmoto became the first brother and sister in history to win a medal in the Table Tennis World Cup! Miwa Zhangmoto surpassed Miu Hirano to become the youngest World Cup medalist in history.
Tomokazu Haramoto (Tomokazu Planning) won the bronze medal in men's singles at the Macau World Cup, and Miwa Haramoto (Kinoshita Group) won the bronze medal in women's singles.
Tomokazu Haramoto and Miwa became the first brother and sister pair in the history of the event to win medals, surpassing the record of 2016 champion Miu Hirano (then 16 years old) and becoming the youngest person in history to reach the semi-finals.
A total of 48 men and women participated in the competition, including 3 men and 4 women from the Japanese team.
In the men's singles competition, Tomokazu Zhang won the table tennis World Cup medal for the third time in a row. Despite beating European powerhouses in the first stage to advance to the semi-finals, he lost to Lin Gaoyuan (China) and failed to qualify for the final for the first time since the 2019 tournament.
Hayasuke Togami, who represented Japan at the Paris Olympics, made it to the quarterfinals. He showed his presence in the first stage with a victory over world No. 10 Qiu Dang (Germany) and a quarter-final meeting of two-time Olympic champion Ma Long (China).
In the first stage, 16-year-old Matsushima Teruku was in the same group as world No. 6 Lin Yunru (Taiwan, China), but lost 0-4 to Lin Guanru and was eliminated in the group stage.
In women's singles, 15-year-old Zhang Benmei has made good progress.
After successfully passing the first stage of the group stage with 2 wins and 0 losses, Zhang Benmeihe defeated world No. 3 Wang Yidi (China) 4-1 in the first round of the second stage, and performed well in both serve and return.
In the semifinals, she met Wang Manyu (China), the queen of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships, and lost 2-4.
Miwa Zhang's outstanding performance shows her strong determination for the Paris Olympics.
Hina Hayada (Nippon Life) and Miu Hirano (Kinoshita Group) also rounded out the top eight.
Hayada lost to Wang Manyu in the quarter-finals, while Hirano lost to Tokyo Olympic champion and last World Cup champion Chen Meng (China).
Ito drew two games in the first group stage and missed the chance to miss the second stage of the knockout round by a narrow margin.
Ping Pong Hu Qingyuan