The 2024 wtt Bangkok Star Challenge has come to an end. Japanese table tennis won five championships and became the biggest winner. Within a week, Japanese table tennis won five championships in two events. Japanese table tennis is very popular recently.
In the wtt Tunisia Regular Challenge held at the end of June, Japanese table tennis won five championships, among which Tomokazu Harimoto achieved the triple crown. This time Japan Table Tennis won another five crowns, and Tomokazu Harimoto won another three crowns.
Among them, Harimoto Tomokazu won the men's singles championship, Ito Mima won the women's singles championship, Harimoto Tomokazu/Matsushima Terukong won the men's doubles championship, Sato Hitomi/Hashimoto Honoka won the women's doubles championship, Harimoto Tomokazu/Hina Hayata won the mixed doubles championship.
In the women's singles final, Mima Ito defeated teammate Honoka Hashimoto 4-2 and won the women's singles championship. In the men's singles final, Zhang Benzhihe defeated Lin Gaoyuan 4-0 and won the men's singles championship.
The award ceremony was held after the game.
Let’s take a look at the women’s singles award ceremony first.
women's singles runner-up Honoka Hashimoto and women's singles champion Mima Ito stood on the podium together. Hashimoto Honoka looked a little unhappy. She had a straight face and felt unwilling to do so. In fact, Hashimoto Honoka, who is ranked 139th in the world and is a chipper, can advance to the women's singles final, which is already amazing. She defeated Miwa Harimoto, who is ranked seventh in the world, Yubin Shin, who is ranked eighth in the world, and Tian Zhixi, who is ranked 14th in the world, and advanced to the finals, which was not easy. She also won the women's doubles title. Hashimoto Honoka is a dark horse in this competition.
Mima Ito and Honoka Hashimoto were still very calm when they took a photo together. But when she took pictures alone, she looked very happy. She was posing in various poses, smiling and looking very happy. Mima Ito missed the Paris Olympics and began to let herself go without paying much attention to results. But she was still very happy to win the championship. She showed various happy expressions and did not hide her joy.
At the men's singles award ceremony, Lin Gaoyuan and Zhang Benzhihe took a photo together. Lin Gaoyuan had a sad face, looking very unhappy and disappointed. Lin Gaoyuan, as the defending men's singles champion of the Bangkok Star Challenge, came here to win the men's singles championship. He also advanced to the finals, but lost to Tomokazu Harimoto in the end, so he was naturally unhappy.
Moreover, Lin Gaoyuan has lost to Tomokazu Zhangmoto in three singles finals. He is really useless. It is estimated that Lin Gaoyuan will be more difficult to take seriously in the future. Lin Gaoyuan is 29 years old and will not be able to play for long. It feels aggrieved to lose to Tomokazu Harimoto at this time, just thinking about it. Lin Gaoyuan was naturally unhappy.
Zhang Benzhihe is different. He won the Triple Crown in two events within a week and was in extremely good condition. He has never achieved such a good record before.
He looked very calm when he took a group photo with Lin Gaoyuan. He didn't dare to laugh either. But when he took pictures alone, he looked very happy.
Tomokazu Zhang moto entered the Japanese table tennis Olympic roster, and he is a three-level athlete. I hope that the national table tennis players will pay attention to him and let him feel the power of the national table tennis team.
