Ten years ago, a Japanese table tennis player made a splash at the Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships, almost pulling down the core main force of national table tennis and the double champion of the Beijing Olympic Games, Ma Lin, thus gaining the reputation of "table tennis genius"; by the time of the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, this person finally "revenged" successfully, shattered Marlene's dream of impacting the Grand Slam for the last time, and almost defeated Xu Xin to win the medal.
However, after so many years, this player has not achieved any decent results, and even the core main position in the Japanese team has not been able to compete. Just today, he once again launched an attack on the national table tennis, the result is still very bad, and finally was defeated by the direct shooting youngster Zhao Zihao 4-1, stopping the qualifying stage.
Do you remember the name Kenta Matsudaira?
Matsudaira Kenta was born in 1991, is a new star in the rise of the Japanese team after the Beijing Olympic Games, delicate feel, excellent serve, good backhand, playing style has distinct personal characteristics, with a certain impact, but somehow always can not play good results, the team competition performance is also average, London, Rio Olympic Games have not been able to get the right to participate, wasted two Olympic cycles of good youth.
However, Kenta Matsudaira still has a good performance in the confrontation with the national table tennis, especially the straight-shooting athletes seem to have more experience, Ma Lin, Wang Hao, Xu Xin, Zheng Peifeng and others have lost under his shooting, so Zhao Zihao, who is a straight-pat play, does have some pressure today.
However, after the start of the game, Kenta Matsudaira has not been smooth, and he has lost two consecutive sets 7-11 and 10-12, although the third set played an 11-3 point difference, but then he lost two 9-11, which led to a 1-4 overall score and was eliminated from the men's singles main match.
How to say it, Matsudaira Kenta's development trajectory is indeed a bit confusing, when the performance is good, the world ranking can enter the top ten (reached the 9th position in 2017), dare to fight with the main force of national table tennis, but the results have never gone up, but also a "Nakanaga" type of figure, its personal experience is worth taking the current young athletes as a warning.
Finally, congratulations to Zhao Zihao for successfully advancing, and look forward to his next performance to be more exciting and smoothly enter the main game: come on!