In the international table tennis arena without the Shatou combination, Tomokazu Zhang and Hina Hayada are insoluble existences.
Zagreb, Ljubljana, Tunis, Bangkok, the Japanese pair has won four mixed doubles championships in a row, and is already challenging the Shatou combination.
Prior to the Bangkok tournament, the mixed doubles world rankings were No. 1 for Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin second, and Tomokazu Zhang and Hina Hayada third, but the South Koreans and Japan were not much different, which means that whoever can win the mixed doubles title at the Grand Slam will be ranked second, thus avoiding the Shatou pair at the Olympics.
Therefore, in order to achieve this goal, Hina Hayada did not even participate in singles, and Tomokazu Zhang and Hina Hayada were also very hard in the game, and they were excited every time they won a game, plus Shin Yubin and Lin Zhongxun lost unexpectedly, Tomokazu Zhang and Hina Hayada won the championship, and the ranking came to second, which means that the Japanese combination will automatically reach the bottom half of the Paris Olympics, and they will most likely get the silver medal if they can't meet the Shatou combination before the final.
This is what Tomokazu Haramoto and Hina Hayada are happier than winning the Bangkok championship.
Japanese table tennis is very strong, this Bangkok competition, Japanese table tennis won five championships, the work that national table tennis used to do, this time let them do it, and this is still in Lin Gaoyuan and Chen Xingtong, participated in the singles to complete.
In the absence of national table tennis, Japanese table tennis is also dominant in the world table tennis arena. In particular, Tomokazu Zhang and Hina Hayada are invincible in the mixed doubles event.
No matter how the Japanese table tennis is clamoring, they are also clear in their hearts, if it comes to singles and teams, they have almost no chance of winning the championship, as strong as Ito Mimako, who did not reach the final at the Tokyo Olympics. Not to mention the team competition, the big corps fights, and the national table tennis will only make occasional mistakes, but the champion will not be left behind.
Only in mixed doubles, there will be variables. Because mixed doubles and singles are different, they pay attention to coordination, although the Shatou combination is strong, but if they pay attention to dominance, they will definitely not have as much advantage in the singles field as they are. Therefore, in other events, Japanese table tennis can target medals, but in the mixed doubles event, Tomokazu Zhang and Hina Hayada also want to fight for the gold medal.
After all, in Tokyo 3 years ago, Misei Ito and Hayashiya Mizutani also defeated the powerful Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin in an upset. That gold medal is also the driving force for all Japanese table tennis players to move forward.
Therefore, after winning four mixed doubles titles and two consecutive triple titles in two weeks, Tomokazu Zhang and Hina Hayada also began to sharpen their knives and prepare to challenge the Shatou combination.
However, I still firmly believe that the Shatou combination will not give them a chance.
Even though the level of Tomokazu Zhang and Hina Hayada is close to or even surpasses Misei Ito and Hayabusa Mizutani 3 years ago, Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin are not Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin.