The WTT Bangkok Stars Challenge 2024 has come to an end. Japanese table tennis won five championships and became the biggest winner. In one week, Japanese table tennis won five championships in two events. Japanese table tennis has been very popular recently.
At the WTT Tunisia Regular Challenge held at the end of June, Japanese table tennis won five championships, among which Tomokazu Zhang achieved the triple crown. This time, Japanese table tennis won five more crowns, and Tomokazu Zhang achieved the triple crown.
Among them, Tomokazu Haramoto won the men's singles title, Misei Ito won the women's singles title, Tomokazu Haramoto/Teruma Matsushima won the men's doubles title, Hitomi Sato/Hashimoto Honoka won the women's doubles title, and Tomokazu Haramoto/Hina Hayada won the mixed doubles title.
In the women's singles final, Misei Ito defeated teammate Hashimoto Honoka 4-2 to win the women's singles championship. In the men's singles final, Tomokazu Zhang defeated Lin Gaoyuan 4-0 and won the men's singles championship.
An award ceremony was held after the game.
Let's take a look at the women's singles awards ceremony first.
Women's singles runner-up Hashimoto Honoka stood on the podium with women's singles champion Mimato Ito. Hashimoto looked a little unhappy. She kept a straight face, feeling unwilling. In fact, as the world No. 139 and chipper, Hashimoto Honoka was able to advance to the women's singles final, which is already remarkable. She defeated the world's No. 7 Zhang Ben Miwa, the world's No. 8 Shin Yubin, and the world's No. 14 Tian Zhixi to advance to the finals, which was not easy. She also won the Women's Doubles title. Hashimoto is a big dark horse in this competition.
When Misei Ito and Hashimoto Honoka took a photo together, they were still very calm. But when she was taking pictures alone, she seemed very happy. She posed in various poses, smiling and looking happy. Ito missed the Paris Olympics and began to let herself go, not paying much attention to her results. But she was still very happy to be able to win the championship. She showed all kinds of happy expressions, and did not hide her joy,
At the men's singles award ceremony, Lin Gaoyuan and Zhang Benzhihe took a group photo together. Lin Gaoyuan had a bitter face, looking very unhappy and lost. Lin Gaoyuan, as the defending men's singles champion of the Bangkok Star Challenge, is running for the men's singles championship. He also advanced to the finals, but lost to Tomokazu Zhang in the end, so he was naturally unhappy.
And Lin Gaoyuan has already lost to Tomokazu Zhang in three singles finals. He's so useless. It is estimated that it will be more difficult for Lin Gaoyuan to be taken seriously in the future. Lin Gaoyuan is 29 years old and can't play for long. At this time, he lost to Tomokazu Zhangmoto, and he was very aggrieved to think about it. Lin Gaoyuan was naturally unhappy.
Tomokazu Zhang is different. He won the treble in two races in one week and was in explosive form. He's never had such a good record before.
When he took a photo with Lin Gaoyuan, he still seemed very calm. He didn't dare to laugh either. But when he was taking pictures alone, he seemed very happy.
Tomokazu Zhang entered the Japanese table tennis Olympic list, and he has three items. I hope that the national table tennis players must pay attention to him and let him feel the power of national table tennis.