The WTT Zagreb Challenge, after many days of competition, on June 19, has reached its final day.
For the national table tennis athletes, the performance in this Zagreb Challenge is not too good, 17 people participated in the competition, and in the end only Xiang Peng reached the final, and in fact, if no one withdrew, Xiang Peng would have been eliminated as early as the qualification stage.
Fortunately, due to the withdrawal of some people, Xiang Peng was able to participate in the main competition, which made the national table tennis to the last competition day, and there were athletes on the field, otherwise, the national table tennis would set the worst challenge record in recent years!
In this Zagreb Challenge, there is no doubt that the Japanese team is the biggest winner.
At present, Japan's Zhang Benzhi and Hayata Hina have won the mixed doubles championship of this tournament, in addition, Ito Mimachi Hayata Hina team also reached the women's doubles final, Yukiya Utada and Toue Hayabusa also reached the men's doubles final, and Hirano and Ito Mimachi jointly reached the women's singles final.
In other words, the Japanese team has the potential to win the women's singles, women's doubles, men's doubles and mixed doubles titles in this event!
The last tournament, the men's and women's singles and men's doubles and women's doubles will play the final!
The biggest highlights of the June 19 game are as follows:
The first highlight: Ito Mimachi Hayata Hina women's doubles final against Shan Xiaona Winter combination.
In this game, from the perspective of strength, there is no doubt that the Japanese combination is more dominant!
It should be known that the ito Yoshimachi Hayata Hina pair has begun to participate in international competitions at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and the cooperation between the two people is very tacit, and they have reached the women's doubles final of the World Table Tennis Championships twice in a row.
In today's world table tennis, I am afraid that only the combination of Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu is sure to be able to defeat the Ito Mimachi Hayata Hina combination.
In the women's doubles final, Ito will attack her first championship of the season, while Hina Hayata will attack the women's doubles championship again after the mixed doubles, can the two of them win the championship?
The second highlight: Yukiya Tomiyakae Hayabusa in the men's doubles final against South Korea's Cho Dae-sung Jang Yu-jin combination.
The two pairs should be not much different in terms of strength, relatively speaking, the Japanese combination may be more tacit in the coordination, but South Korean athletes have always dared to fight on the field, who can laugh to the end, I am afraid to wait until the end of the game to know.
The third highlight: the women's singles final Ito Mimachi vs. Miyu Hirano.
It's a civil war between Japanese women's table tennis!
Many fans know that Ito Mimachi is the strongest enemy of Chinese women's table tennis today, but in fact, as early as 6 years ago, Hirano Miyu won the women's singles championship in the World Cup, and even in the 2017 Asian Championships, defeated Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling and Chen Meng, the three absolute main players of Chinese women's table tennis, and won the women's singles championship of the Asian Championships.
It is no exaggeration to say that the threat of Hirano Miyu at that time was no smaller than that of ito Mimachi now, and the young athletes of Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu were only reused after Hirano Miyu defeated Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling and Chen Meng. At one point, they served as a stand-in for Miyu Hirano in the Chinese women's table tennis team, and practiced with Ding Ning Liu Shiwen and other main players.
Only in recent years, Hirano Miyu's state has declined, and the threat to the Chinese team is not too great, but in last year's World Table Tennis Championships, Hirano Miyu was still shocked into a cold sweat.
Ito Mimachi and Hirano Miyu are the same age, but also known as the strongest enemy of Chinese women's table tennis, Ito Mimachi and Hirano Miyu are also mutually winning and losing, this competition, the victory and defeat between the two is unpredictable, in general, Ito Mimakoto will win the championship The possibility will be a little greater!
The fourth big point to watch: men's single Xiangpeng vs. Lin Yunru.
Of the 17 participating teams, only Xiang Peng reached the final, which also made the Chinese team retain the last hope of winning the championship!
At the beginning of this Zagreb Challenge, Xiang Peng did not play well, and even did not qualify in the qualifiers, but fortunately he was able to participate in the main tournament through substitutes.
After the start of the main match, Xiang Peng played better and better, defeating the Japanese player Zhang Benzhihe, who was the same age as himself, in the second round, and then he was out of control and reached the final.
Xiang Peng's opponent in the final was Lin Yunru of Chinese Taipei.
Compared with Xiang Peng, Lin Yunru is more Sven on the field, but the style of the ball is more tough, and he once reached the men's singles final four at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and his strength should not be underestimated.
Of course, Xiang Peng may not be much worse than Lin Yunru in technology, and compared with Lin Yunru, Xiang Peng's main weakness lies in the experience of the competition.
Can Xiang Peng defeat Lin Yunru in the men's singles final and defend the honor of national table tennis?
Let's wait and see!