On April 23rd, Beijing time, Chinese and Japanese media focused on the 15-year-old girl Miwa Harimoto who broke into the top 10 in the world for the first time in the Women's Table Tennis World Cup rankings. Her brother Harimoto Satoshi and her younger sister Miwa, who is ranked 9th in the world in men's singles, are ranked 8th in the world. , which is also a unique scenery in the world table tennis world. The brother and sister have joined hands to stand on the stage of adult first-line players. It is inevitable that some people will compare the two brothers and sisters. When this table tennis brother and sister can win the world championship title will be a topic worthy of attention. The world ranking does not explain much of the problem. Zhang Benzhihe has not beaten the top three of the national table tennis women's team so far, and his brother Zhang Benzhihe had already done this when he was her current age.
It will be difficult for Meihe to climb up again
In this Macau World Cup, Zhang Benmeihe won the fourth sister of the national table tennis team Wang Yidi 4-1, but lost to Wang Manyu 2-4 in the semi-finals. Now there is a big wall in front of Zhang Benmeihe, and three people are sitting on the wall - Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, and Wang Manyu.
Zhang Benzhihe was ranked 10th in the world rankings in early June 2018. At that time, he was less than 15 years old. Judging from this absolute data, he entered the top 10 in the world earlier than Zhang Benzhihe. And when Tomokazu Harimoto was 15 years old, he had already won the men's singles championship of the Japanese National Championship, the men's singles championship of the Czech Open, and the men's singles championship of the Japan Open. He has defeated former world number one or Olympic champions such as Samsonov, Boll and Zhang Jike. In 2018, Zhang Benzhihe defeated Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and Wang Chuqin in the Asian Cup, Japan Open and Youth Olympic Games. .
Until the beginning of this year, Miwa Harimoto won the women's singles runner-up in the Japan National Championship for the first time, and has not won the Table Tennis Federation Open singles championship. The competition in the women's table tennis field in Japan is far more fierce than that of men. If Miwa Harimoto wants to go further than she is now, she must first gain an absolute advantage in the battle with Hayata, Hirano and Ito, which still needs a process.
Zhang Benzhi and Wang Yidi are major breakthroughs, but Wang Yidi is not the Olympic core of national table tennis. The three core players of the national table tennis team, Sun and Chen Wang, have a very strong dominance in the world of women's table tennis. No one can guarantee that they will only win but not lose. Fan Zhendong, Ma Long and other national men's table tennis players have relatively more accidents in international competitions, but Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng and Wang Manyu rarely compete abroad, even if one of them occasionally loses In foreign battles, the other two teammates will fill the "loopholes" in time.
The Zhang brothers and sisters are indeed the strong rivals of the national table tennis team.
The table tennis talents and genes of Zhang Benzhi and his siblings are rooted in the national table tennis team. Their father Zhang Yu is the former main player of the Sichuan provincial team, and their mother Zhang Ling is the former national team player. From the perspective of technical characteristics, they are of the same school as the national table tennis team. The core technologies and characteristics of the current national table tennis players have definitely improved a lot compared to the early 1990s. However, the biggest supporters behind the Zhang Ben brothers and sisters, their parents, can analyze the international competition videos of the current national table tennis players. Clear context.
Without Chinese elements, it would be almost impossible for Japanese table tennis, whether men or women, to compete with the national table tennis. Mizutani Hayabusa's victory over Xu Xin by 1 point in the Rio men's team final was an unexpected surprise. The competition between Zhang Ben's brother and sister and the national table tennis team has just begun. This is a contest between the brothers and sisters who are isolated overseas and the collective strength of the national table tennis team.
World rankings often do not explain any problems. In the history of table tennis, such as Fukuhara Ai, Ishikawa Kasumi, Li Jiawei and other former top 10 regulars in the world, it is because they cannot break through the core main force of the national table tennis in the competition, or to be harsh, they cannot break through continuously. The core force of the national table tennis team has led to his lack of impressive records in his career. At the 2022 Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, Zhang Benzhi and Zeng rarely defeated Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong in succession, but in the end they failed to win the world championship title. When his sister Miwa Zhangmoto can break through Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, and Wang Manyu, even if she breaks through a certain national table tennis core player first, it is something that deserves our attention. If Zhang Benmeihe wants to win against Sun, Chen and Wang in the same event, it seems that it will be difficult to become a reality within three to five years.
