In the just-concluded Table Tennis World Youth Championships, there was no situation where Chinese players were the only ones to excel. On the contrary, because two talented girls emerged from the Japanese team, the competition between Chinese and Japanese players reached a fever pitch - if we talk about adult events, The Chinese women's team still has a relatively large advantage, with a winning rate of more than 80%, so the strength comparison between the young players from the two countries may be 50:50.
So, who are the two talented girls of the Japanese team? The first place in
is naturally the younger sisters of Zhang Benzhi and , Zhang Benzhi and , which we are very concerned about. In the World Youth Championship U15 group competition, Zhang Benmei and , who were born at the age of 6 in 2008, won gold medals in all events they participated in, namely 4 gold medals in women's team, women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. Although the Chinese team did not send any players to participate in the competition, 13-year-old Zhang Benmei and competed with each other in many competitions, so the gold content of her results was not low.
We may not need to introduce more about the life experiences of Zhang Benmei and , because her brother is the "famous" Zhang moto Tomokazu. What we need to pay more attention to is what kind of physical condition Zhang Benmei and have - although she is only 13 years old, Zhang Benmei and are 1.6 meters tall, which makes her and , the current number one opponent of Chinese women's table tennis Compared with Mima Ito , the physical quality is even better.
In terms of performance in the same age group, Zhang Benmei and are also better than Mima Ito. In 2015, at the age of 7, she won the girls' championship in the All-Japan Athletes Competition; in 2018, at the age of 10, she was selected for the Japanese national youth team with an impressive record of 31 wins and 1 loss; in the same year, she won the championship of the China Youth Open ( She won the U13 championship at the age of 10); in 2020, at the age of 12, she won the U18 category championship of the Czech Youth Tour.
With the World Youth Championship winning 4 gold medals, Zhang Benmei and ’s status as genius girls has been confirmed. The Japanese media has been eager to compare her with Mima Ito and predict that she is more promising than Mima Ito. Mima Ito won the mixed doubles gold medal with Mizutani Hayabusa at the Tokyo Olympics. The Japanese media hopes that Zhang Moto and will achieve greater breakthroughs in singles.
The second place is Miyu Kihara who is already well-known in the adult arena. In the U19 World Youth Championship, Miyu Kihara won 1 gold and 3 silvers. The only gold medal came from mixed doubles, but her performance in singles was also remarkable. She will definitely be one of the important opponents of the Chinese women's team in the future.
In the women's singles semi-finals, Miyu Kihara defeated Chinese player Wu Yangchen 4-3. In the final, she lost to another Chinese player Kuaiman 3-4, and finally finished second. Judging from the progress of the game, Kihara Miyu and Kuaiman were about the same strength, and each game was very tangled. However, Kihara Miyu's mentality was more anxious, which finally made her angry.
Although the psychological quality problem still needs to be solved, it is undeniable that her level has reached the top. Similar to Mima Ito, she is good at attacking close to the table, and her fighting skills can often tear open the opponent's defense. Moreover, her doubles ability is also very good. Born in 2004, she partnered with Nagasaki Miyou at the 2019 ITTF Tour Finals and defeated the World Table Tennis Championships champion and the Chinese combination Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu .
From Ai Fukuhara , to Kasumi Ishikawa , to Miu Hirano , to Mima Ito, to Miyu Kihara, to Miu Zhangmoto and , Japanese women's table tennis has never stopped, and its strength is getting stronger and stronger. The stronger. This is a kind of pressure and motivation for the Chinese women's table tennis team . It is a huge promotion for the development of table tennis.
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