Preface
Recently, the latest week's ITTF rankings have been announced, and the top five in both men's and women's singles are members of the national table tennis team, but what is more noticeable is Miwa Zhangmoto.
This 08-year-old young player is not yet 16 years old, and he refreshed his ranking and rose to the eighth position, and then the potential is endless, so where is the "talented young player" like the national table tennis team?
Zhang Benmeihe's ranking hit a new high
Zhang Benmeihe has risen four places in the ranking to eighth, setting a new career high, and she is still competing in fewer competitions than the top few in the rankings, and it is predicted from this form that her ranking should continue to improve in the future.
In the just-concluded Macau World Cup, Zhang Benmeihe was also the only player in the women's singles semi-finals who was not a national table tennis player, and she was able to overcome obstacles to get to this position, and even defeated Wang Yidi, who ranked third, with a score of 4-1, and her strength should not be underestimated.
The competitions she has participated in in recent years have attracted a lot of attention because of her excellent performance, and Deng Yaping has publicly stated that she wants to conduct a detailed study of Zhang Benmei and this Japanese teenager.
Deng Yaping did not shy away from praising Zhang Benmeihe's style of play, saying that whether it is tactical ability, the use of forehand and backhand, or serving, etc., it is all innovative, which is very different from the previous athlete's style of play.
At the same time, he also believes that at the Paris Olympics, this Japanese teenager will be one of the potential rivals of the Chinese team! This concern is not unreasonable, in fact, it has been eyebrow-raising since Miwa Zhang began to "rush" international competitions a few years ago.
"Rushing" international competitions deserves vigilance
When she was a child, she showed her excellent talent in table tennis, winning the U8 Championship in Japan at the age of 7.
In 2018, when he was less than 10 years old, he won 31 wins and 1 loss in Japan's domestic competition, and successfully entered the Japanese national junior team. In the same year, his brother Tomokazu Zhang Ben defeated Grand Slam winners like Ma Long and Zhang Jike in the Open Tournament one after another.
I didn't expect his sister to be even more powerful. Moreover, in 2021, on the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Japan Table Tennis Association, it also announced its long-term plan for the next 10 years, and even directly "shouted" to China.
announced that it will surpass China in 2031 and become the world's number one table tennis power. Therefore, like the Zhang brothers and sisters, they will definitely focus on training.
Zhang Benmeihe came to Shanghai to participate in the championship when she was 11 years old, and the final result was still a complete victory, winning two events, which made everyone look at this little girl with admiration at that time.
In just a few years, she has cried Qian Tianyi, and defeated Misei Ito, who is already an Olympic champion, and world champions like Miu Hirano, Kasumi Ishikawa, and Feng Tianwei have also fallen in front of her.
During the WTT regular season last year, Zhang won the championship in one fell swoop, becoming the youngest champion in WTT history.
Zhang Benmei plays well with the ball, but after all, she is still a teenager, and she has not given up her studies because of her career path, except for flying around to participate in various competitions, she will go to school as usual, and she will only go to practice when she has time after dinner in the evening.
And it's like this every day, and she will also take physical training classes after practice, basically all of which are done after 10 o'clock.
When facing the national table tennis players, she always has a humble learning attitude, among which her favorite is Sun Yingsha, she thinks Sun Yingsha's style of play is very powerful, and she can learn a lot from here.
Last year's Asian Championships, I also specially asked Sun Yingsha to take a group photo, in fact, the two have met several times on the court, but so far, every time Sun Yingsha has won.
The last time the two played was at the end of last year, Sun Yingsha won with a score of 3-2, but Sun Yingsha was still behind in the first two games, and finally won narrowly.
After the end, Sun Yingsha said that after fighting with the two two two months ago, she could clearly feel that Zhang Benmeihe had made significant progress, and her performance was much better than last time.
In the case that Japanese youngsters can be independent, what is the situation of our national table tennis?
Where is the national table tennis player?
Judging from the current situation of the national table tennis team, in addition to veterans like the Dragon team, there are also the main forces of the "post-00s" like Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha. But now the biggest "post-00s" are 24 years old.
Among the Chinese players who participated in international competitions, the only ones who can be called by the youngsters are Kuo Man and Lin Shidong. Kuo Man is 04 years old and is now 20 years old, and Lin Shidong in 05 is also 19 years old.
In the recent Macau World Cup, when she was still in the group stage, Kuo Man became the only national table tennis player out of the game, and she was playing against South Korea's Tian Zhixi, who began to fall behind by two games, and later although it was a draw, she still lost in terms of small scores.
When Lin Shidong entered the top 8 competition, he met teammate Fan Zhendong, who directly reversed teammate Lin Shidong after falling behind for two games in a row.
These two have made certain achievements in the past few years, but in the latest ITTF rankings, Kuo Man ranks 22nd in the women's singles event, and Lin Shidong ranks 16th in the men's singles rankings, compared with Zhang Benmeihe, there is still a certain gap.
Moreover, a younger player like Zhang Benmei and others is not particularly "emerging" in our national table tennis, and this practical problem has also triggered heated discussions among netizens.
I feel that although our country's table tennis is playing well and there are many talents, we also have to pay attention to the cultivation of new forces, and a better inheritance will help these sports go further. I look forward to more outstanding young players in our national table tennis.
But the most realistic problem at the moment is to actively prepare for the Olympic Games. After entering the Paris Olympic cycle, the most obvious change in national table tennis is the coaching staff. The biggest competitor of national table tennis is still Japan.
It's only been three years since the last time, and Japanese table tennis has been renewed, which shows that the Japanese Table Tennis Association has fully entered the "post-00 era" in this year's Olympic Games, and our only goal is to get full of hardware.
However, this process is still arduous, and we must seriously prepare for the war, and we must not take it lightly.
epilogue
How the national table tennis team will develop in the future depends on the arrangement of the national table tennis coaching staff, which is just everyone's concern about the current situation.
Resources
1. The original article was published in The Paper2024-04-17 about "Olympic Tour|National Table Tennis Faces Fierce Competition from the Japanese Team, Winning Full Hardware is the Only Goal"
2. The original article was published in Jimu News 2024-04-23 about "The latest ITTF rankings: Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha lead, national table tennis wins the top five in the world in singles, Ma Long rises to third, and Lin Gaoyuan rises to fifth"
3. The original article was published in Qingtong Perspective2023-12-17About "Topic|15-year-old Zhang Benmei and rapid progress Will she become the biggest threat to the national table tennis women's team in the future?"
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