At the Saudi Grand Slam, Chen Meng continuously challenged the three main players of Japanese table tennis, all of whom will participate in the Paris Olympics. Chen Meng swept Miu Hirano 3-0 in the 1/8 finals. In the quarter-finals, he defeated Japan's 15-year-old Miwa Harimoto 4-1. In the semi-finals, he swept Japan's top table tennis player Hina Hayata 4-0. I really feel how powerful Chen Meng is. In addition, Chen Meng himself legitimately got his second singles ticket to the Paris Olympics, which is gratifying.
Facing Chen Meng, among the three main players of Japanese table tennis, only Miwa Harimoto won one game. It is worth mentioning that Chen Meng defeated Miwa Harimoto 3:1 in the fifth game of the final of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships on February 24. Then on March 29, in the Incheon Championship singles 1/8 finals, Chen Meng defeated Miwa Harimoto 3-0. In the early morning of May 10th, at the Saudi Grand Slam, Chen Meng once again defeated Miwa Harimoto 4-1.
You must know that Zhang Benmeihe is 15 years old, and Chen Meng is already 30 years old. He has beaten Zhang Benmeihe three times in 48 days. Is this bullying the younger one? As athletes, they generally enter their peak period in their 20s, when their athletic abilities and physical conditions have reached maturity. And Zhang Benmeihe is still a student, coming to participate in the Saudi Grand Slam and still busy doing homework. However, Chen Meng's peak period has passed. If it were Chen Meng during the Tokyo Olympics, his condition would be even stronger.
But the competition is a competition, and there is no bullying of the small by the big. If Zhang Benmeihe wins, I am afraid that the public opinion will be that the genius has been born since ancient times. In competitive sports, there is no such thing as bullying the younger. Losing means that your skills are inferior to others. If you are young, you don't have to play. Wait until you are older to compete. Don't look for objective reasons. In any case, Harimoto Miwa does still have room for improvement, but don't forget that his brother Harimoto Tomokazu is also very strong at this age and has won many key points. As he grows older, he gradually becomes dull. As the coach of Miwa Harimoto, Zhang Benyu also looked helpless. In the past, Mima Ito was even more crazy. How is it now?
Zhang Benmiwa has just debuted, and the Chinese team has not yet fully researched her. Once the research is complete, she will be the next Mima Ito. The upper limit of Zhang Ben's brother and sister can only be to occasionally beat China's main players once or twice, and maybe even win one or two competition championships, because everyone has times when they are in peak form and fail, but if they want to defeat China's main players on a regular basis, It is extremely difficult to win competition championships frequently. This is determined by the environment they are in.
The fatal injury of the Zhang Ben brothers and sisters is that they do not have a top coaching team or top sparring partners. When Zhang Benyu was in China, he was not considered a top player. Now that he is the coach himself, the upper limit is not high. Of course, I also respect Zhang Benyu’s family. They chose to leave their hometown to develop abroad for the sake of their own better development. I also admire the couple for raising two such outstanding children.
