Beijing time on August 8, in the semi-finals of the table tennis men's team at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the Japanese team led 2-0 and was reversed by the Swedish team, which won three consecutive games. After losing the decisive game, Japanese Chinese players Zhang Benzhi and collapsed completely and lay on the ground crying.
As can be seen from the photo, Zhang Benzhihe lay on the ground crying and refused to get up for a long time after losing the game. Until he was forcibly pulled up by the coach and teammates to greet the audience. This scene also caused netizens to talk about it: "I feel like Zhang Benzhi is fast." "I was crushed. I was forced to chase three, and the team was also forced to chase three." "Why do I feel a little distressed for some reason? It's the worst thing to see an athlete cry on the field." "I kind of expected this result, Togami." After failing to win the third game in one breath, I felt that the Japanese team might be reversed.” As he said himself, there is no such thing as table tennis. If you cannot hold up key points and lose, you can only blame yourself." In the semi-final between
and the Swedish team, the Japanese team was the more optimistic team before the game. The first doubles match between the two teams was considered to be the key to victory or defeat. After Togami Hayabusa / Shinozuka Daiden won the doubles point, the balance of victory was already tilting towards the Japanese team. Especially after Zhang Benzhihe defeated the current Paris Olympic table tennis men's singles runner-up Moregaard with the same score in the second "one-on-one" contest between the two sides, even Chinese fans generally believed that the Japanese team would win. The men's team met the Chinese team in the final. Unexpectedly, just when the fans thought that the Japanese team would win the third game with overwhelming force, Hayasuke Togami failed to withstand Carlson's counterattack. The latter completed the reversal after losing the first game and had no way out.
In fact, until this time, the Japanese team is still the more favored team, because they defended Tomokazu Hari in the fifth game. Zhang Benzhihe played very well in the men's singles competition of the Paris Olympics. He and Fan Zhendong fought hard for seven games in the quarter-finals before losing. In addition, he also defeated Moregard in the second game, but his fragile psychology and the burden of wanting to win and being afraid of losing once again defeated Tomokazu Harimoto. He won two consecutive games at 11-5 and led 2-0. The Japanese team had to swallow the bitter pill of not qualifying for the men's team finals.
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