The 2022 Japan Table Tennis National Team Junior Men's and Women's Team Head Coaches announced by the Japan Table Tennis Association are Kunishi Tashi and Takehiro Watanabe, and the names of 4 Chinese appear in the coaching team, namely Zhang Benling, who is responsible for the Japanese women's youth team, that is, Zhang Benzhiwa's mother, bringing out the head coach of Japan's first singles world champion Hirano Miyu Nakazawa (Wang Rui) Fukuhara Ai's head coach Tang Yuanyuan's husband Zhang Yibo and former Shanghai player Dong Qimin also appeared in the list of men's team coaches. These veteran players, who have been in the Chinese provincial team and even the national team, are expected to become an important force to improve the overall level of Table Tennis in Japan.
Zhang Benling, formerly known as Zhang Ling, is a former national player of the Chinese table tennis national team, she belongs to the same group of team members as Deng Yaping, Qiao Hong, Liu Wei and other world champions, and was selected into the women's singles team of the 1995 Tianjin World Table Tennis Championships. After the 1997 National Games, Zhang Ling and her husband Zhang Yudong crossed to Japan, and gave birth to son Zhang Benzhihe and daughter Zhang Benmeihe, of which the son has become the world's 5th Japanese brother, the daughter in the just concluded Doha WTT three-stop competition, Lian Ke 4 national table tennis players, but also defeated the world champion such as Feng Tianwei, Zhang Benmeihe's growth is rapidly inseparable from the mother Zhang Benling's tuning, as Zhang Benmeihe's achievements become more and more prominent, Zhang Benling's entry into the Japanese youth team to coach has become a natural thing.
Japan youth women's team coaching team in addition to Zhang Benling and former Hebei player Wang Rui, he only arrived in Hebei Province during his time as an athlete, and did not have the strength to enter the national team training, after transferring to Japan, changed his name to Nakazawa Rui, became a young coach, Nakazawa Rui's greatest achievement is to bring the first world championship title to Japanese table tennis, he as hirano Miyu's coach, in the 2016 World Cup with the young player all the way to win the women's singles championship, This is also the first singles title in Japanese table tennis to win three major competitions in the 21st century. At present, Nakazawa rui has parted ways with Miyu Hirano, and his eldest disciple has been replaced by a more potential and impactful 17-year-old Kihara Miyu, a talented girl who has just won two consecutive women's singles and women's doubles titles in the Doha Star Competition, and is expected to follow in the footsteps of Ito Mimachi and Hayata Shina and become the third main force of Japanese table tennis.
Zhang Yibo is a former Shanghai team member, he did not enter the Chinese national team, but after arriving in Japan, he insisted on training and competition, and with excellent singles results, he was selected for the team team team of the 2010 World Championships, representing the Japanese men's team and won a valuable bronze medal. Zhang Yibo's wife is the coach of Ai Fukuhara, a national treasure of Japanese table tennis, and the two began to cooperate from 2002 until the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, during which they established a deep sisterly relationship, Zhang Yibo is also the teacher of Ai Fukuhara, and now he is also responsible for the guidance of the youth team in the Japanese men's team.
At the same time, the Japanese men's team coached another former Shanghai player Dong Qimin, who is a member of the same group as the current head coach of the national table tennis men's team, Qin Zhijian, the world champion Yan Sen, and the world champions Wang Liqin and Feng Zhe are Shanghai teammates, and Kong Linghui is a good friend. With the joining of these Chinese players, they will choose some practical things in the strategy, technology and method of training in China to teach the young generation of Japanese table tennis, which must be beneficial to the growth of young players, at present, the main force of the Japanese team has not yet formed an overall threat, creating obstacles to the sustainability of the national table tennis, how to improve the stability of the Japanese young players in the future and the qualitative leap in technology is the problem that these coaches need to solve.