Beijing time on July 5 news, Japan's T League Okayama Club announced that 37-year-old Chinese table tennis player Hao Shuai will join in the new season, this is Hao Shuai's first time to participate in the T League, he looks forward to letting Okayama fans see the wonderful game. Hao Shuai was a rising star in the Chinese table tennis team, known as the "Six Tigers" with Wang Hao and others, and his best result was to pair with Ma Lin in 2013 to win the second place in the men's doubles of the World Table Tennis Championships.
Hao Shuai has faded out of the national team for many years, but has not given up his table tennis career, in addition to competing in the National Games, he also represented Tianjin universities in international competitions. This year, Hao Shuai will still participate in the National Games, in order to maintain his status and increase his income, he chose to play abroad and participate in the T League Okayama Club.
Last season, Okayama FC had players such as Takashi Niwa, Masataka Morien and Hitoshi Ueda, and it was difficult to take advantage of km tokyo and Ryukyu, and did not reach the finals. In the new season, Olympian Takashi Niwa leaves, Okayama is in urgent need of a good player, and the addition of Hao Shuai will greatly enhance the team's combat effectiveness.
This will be Hao Shuai's first participation in the T League, before that, the famous chipper Hou Yingchao played in the T League, he played with Zhang Benzhihe and Mizutani Hayabusa in KM Tokyo, last season due to travel restrictions brought by the epidemic, Hou Yingchao did not return to the final stage, resulting in KM Tokyo losing to Ryukyu and missing the championship.
Born in 1984, Hao Shuai was a new star in the Chinese table tennis team, and he and Wang Hao, Chen Xuan, Qiu Yike, Zhang Chao and Shan Mingjie were called the "Six Tigers" of the national table tennis men's singles by the media.
Among the "Six Tigers", Wang Hao is the most well-known, he has won three Olympic men's singles runners-up, won the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Cup championships. Hao Shuai is the most regrettable one, because of a loss in the World Table Tennis Championships, he has missed the opportunity forever.
At the 2005 Shanghai World Table Tennis Championships, Hao Shuai successfully reached the men's singles quarterfinals, and he faced Denmark's Metz in the quarterfinals. On the road to advancement, Metz eliminated Wang Hao 4-0, and what was more surprising was that Wang Hao lost all five high-ball opportunities in the game, and his performance was lamentable.
Hao Shuai's 1/4 final, Metz fell behind 0-3 in the innings, 7-10 in the fourth set, at this time he repeated the same trick, put a high ball again, Hao Shuai could not cope with the mistake, the opponent saved the match point after the mental imbalance, the rhythm was completely disrupted, Hao Shuai not only lost this round, and then played more and more chaotic, and finally reversed by Metz 3-4, missing the top four.
Since then, Hao Shuai has been crowned with a hat of poor psychological quality, and many competitions have never had the opportunity to participate. The 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb was hao shuai's last time to participate in the world's three major singles, and in the 2010 World Cup team competition, Hao Shuai was shortlisted for the squad and crowned the title of world champion. At the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships, Hao Shuai and Ma Lin teamed up to win the men's doubles runner-up.