After 6 days of fierce fighting, the 2024 WTT Bangkok Stars Tournament came to an end on the evening of the 7th, with the Japanese team winning five championships, Tomokazu Zhangmoto once again becoming the triple champion, and the men's singles final swept the national table tennis player Lin Gaoyuan 4:0. Misei Ito defeated teammate Hashimoto Hashimoto 4-2 in the women's singles final and took the top spot.
In the men's singles final, Lin Gaoyuan was swept away 4-0 by Tomokazu Zhang (3-11, 8-11, 6-11, 9-11). After achieving the triple crown in Tunisia, Tomokazu Zhang won the triple crown back-to-back! Lin Gaoyuan was passive all over the court, was stunned, and once again became the opponent's background board!
The start was passive, and Lin Gaoyuan was stunned
Zhang Benzhihe is in three competitions this time, and the continuous rotation mode has become the norm for multiple races a day. Even on the day of the finals, Tomokazu Zhang still played three matches a day, playing the singles semifinals, the mixed doubles finals, and finally the men's singles finals. Playing like this, Zhang Benzhihe's state was completely mobilized. Winning the men's doubles championship and the mixed doubles championship, Zhang Benzhihe felt hot and confident.
At the beginning of the first game, Zhang Benzhi and the firepower were full of firepower, and the first three boards were very fierce, winning 11-3. Lin Gaoyuan was a little stunned, obviously unprepared for the difficulties, he didn't expect Zhang Benzhihe to be able to play in such a state!
The intensity couldn't keep up with Zhang Benzhihe, and Lin Gaoyuan was passively beaten
Lin Gaoyuan's technical style is fast and changeable, the first three boards are very fierce, and the backhand twisting is very threatening. But in the face of Tomokazu Zhang's crazy attack in this game, Lin Gaoyuan couldn't keep up with the opponent's rhythm at all, and the intensity was not right!
After quickly losing the first game, Lin Gaoyuan organized a counterattack in the second game, and the key points were not resisted. In the third game, Zhang Benzhihe was even more ferocious, the first three boards rushed very fiercely, and the fast and changeable rhythm continuously suppressed Lin Gaoyuan. Zhang Benzhihe's shouting, combined with his ferocious attack, gave Lin Gaoyuan a lot of oppression. Under pressure, Lin Gao is far from continuity, no intensity!
The key points were unstable, and Lin Gaoyuan missed opportunities in a row
The first game was one-sided, and Lin Gaoyuan had no chance. But in the second and third games, Lin Gaoyuan had a chance to win, and the key was not to grasp it. Let's take the third game as an example, 3-6, Lin Gaoyuan won a holding ball, a morale balloon, and directly stopped Tomokazu Zhangmoto. Lin Gaoyuan then scored three points in a row, and the score was 6-6. In terms of key points, Lin Gaoyuan dropped the chain, Zhang Benzhi and a lucky ball won a key point and stabilized the momentum! scored 5 points in a row and won this crucial game 11-6. In the deciding game, Lin Gaoyuan fell behind 8-9 and still had a chance to chase points, but his decisiveness was obviously not as good as Zhang Benzhihe, who was more ruthless and had harder hands!
Zhang Benzhi and the ball, Lin Gaoyuan was not well prepared
The national table tennis has been training in a closed field, and the main players have not gone out to compete! Taking this opportunity, Tomokazu Zhang has been participating in competitions, from Zagreb to Ljubljana, and then to Tunisia, Tomokazu Zhang has finally ended the championship drought! Zhang Benzhi and the competition are training, and the competitive state is getting better and better, which is obvious to all. As for whether to raise the ball, this can only be tested when encountering the main force of national table tennis and high-level players.
Judging from the process of this game, Tomokazu Zhang has indeed risen. The forehand has more stability, and the ball is faster and more aggressive. You must know that in the previous games, Zhang Benzhihe relied more on his backhand, which was fast and used more strength to play. Now the forehand is used frequently, dare to take the initiative to exert force, dare to take the initiative to increase the intensity.
Lin Gaoyuan fought alone, lost to Tomokazu Zhangmoto, and fell in the final. A crisp defeat, Lin Gaoyuan needs to summarize it well! Tomokazu Zhang used his performance to sound the alarm for national table tennis, he is the strongest foreign opponent of national table tennis. Substitute training with competitions, continuous combat, Zhang Benzhihe's state is really good, the results of the national table tennis training need to be tested in the Olympic Games, and the pressure is relatively high!
Tunisia, Tomokazu Zhang achieved the triple crown! In the Bangkok match, Tomokazu Zhang defeated the national table tennis and achieved the triple crown again. Japanese table tennis has won all five championships in two consecutive competitions, and this performance is indeed outstanding. Affirm the strength and performance of the opponent, and the national table tennis needs to do its best next!
The 23-year-old Ito has been in a slump for a long time after entering the Paris cycle, and he has not been able to get a ticket to the Paris Olympics, and he cannot even participate in the team event. This time Ito Misei missed Paris, it does not mean that she is completely bad, in the Bangkok Challenge, which did not have the main force of the national table tennis Olympics, the Japanese female table tennis star who has been famous for many years once again proved herself with a heavy women's singles championship. In this Bangkok tournament, Ito Misei had a bye in the first round, defeated Germany's Wan Yuan 3-1 in the second round, reversed South Korea's Zhu Qianxi 3-2 in the 1/8 finals, defeated Romania's Szokos 3-1 in the quarterfinals, and defeated South Korean chipper Xu Xiaoyuan in three straight games 3-0 in the semifinals.
In the final, against Japan's domestic chipper Hashimoto Honoka Hashimoto, Ito Misei played hard. Ito won the first game 11-6, but was reversed by his opponent at the end of the second game, causing his mentality to collapse for a while, and after the third game, he fell behind by a large score of 1-7 at the beginning of the third game, and then lost the game 4-11. But then Ito stabilized the situation, and she showed her strength to win the next three games in a row to achieve a 4-2 reversal.
The singles of table tennis is always the most exciting, the single event that can best reflect the comprehensive strength of the individual, Ito Mimato currently has 13 singles championships in international competitions, which is unique among Japanese female players in recent decades, and Hina Hayada currently has only 9 singles championships. The players of the Chinese team will always be the ceiling of these foreign association masters, and Ito Misei has so far presented a three-stage period of jumping under the ceiling of national table tennis in the early stage, once competing with the main force of national table tennis in the middle stage, and becoming active under the ceiling again in the near future.
The champions and runners-up in the doubles competitions are: Men's Doubles: Tomokazu Changmoto/Teruku Matsushima (Japan), Zhuang Zhiyuan/Ko Chengrui (Chinese Taipei); Women's Doubles: Hitomi Sato/Honoka Hashimoto (Japan), Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin (Korea); Mixed Doubles: Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hina Hayada (Japan), Wong Chun Ting/To Hoi Kim (Hong Kong). Reprinted from "Little Brother Talks about Sports" and "Luocheng Sports 11"