The national table tennis is currently in a closed training camp, preparing for the upcoming Paris Olympic Games, in addition to the national table tennis masters of other associations, there is no such condition for their own closed training, so they still choose to actively participate in the event to maintain their state, to compete for training. In the just-concluded WTT Tunisia, the Japanese team won all five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles. It is worth mentioning that among the players who won the five championships this time, there are two people's names that appear frequently, namely Zhang Benzhi and Zhang Benmei, who won three championships, and won two championships, and the heaviest men's and women's singles championships were won by this pair of Chinese brothers and sisters in Japan.
Compared with Zhang Benmeihe, Zhang Benzhihe may have a greater impact on the Chinese team. Although Zhang Benmeihe is very young and has great potential, he still has few victories in the previous series of battles with the three main players of the Chinese team in the Olympic Games, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha. Tomokazu Zhang is different, he has defeated Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin and Ma Long who participated in the Olympic Games in recent years, and his performance is still very eye-catching, and he won three championships in men's singles, men's doubles and mixed doubles alone.
It is worth mentioning that since entering 2024, in the ITTF senior competitions, Tomokazu Zhang has become the second male player other than Wang Chuqin to complete a competition and win three championships. Wang Chuqin once completed the feat of winning three championships by himself in the Saudi Grand Slam. Although the competition in Tunisia that Zhang Benzhihe participated in did not have national table tennis players to participate, the competitiveness was insufficient, and the level could not be compared with the Grand Slam, but this was still very easy, showing Zhang Benzhihe's very good state before the Olympic Games.
Tomokazu Zhangmoto's process of winning the championship is still relatively difficult, this hardship mainly refers to the singles competition, he faced two young players from Japan in the semifinals and finals, both games were played to the tiebreaker, especially the semi-finals played more thrilling, and the Japanese 17-year-old Matsushima waved the air, and the decisive battle to the last moment of the tiebreaker to kill the opponent with a two-point advantage. In the final, he also defeated his teammates 4:3.
Needless to say, Zhang Benzhihe's potential is naturally needless to say, especially after his state is played, it is also very troublesome for our national table tennis players to deal with it. More importantly, his experience in international competitions is indeed very sufficient, don't look very light, compared with these national table tennis players of the same age, his experience is more abundant, after all, players of his level in the Japanese team can still get a lot of opportunities to participate in international competitions.
Zhang Benzhihe's biggest problem is that his state is not particularly stable, all the top players in the world, he has the possibility of winning whoever he plays, but in the same way, he often loses to some little-known players, so in the Olympic Games, whether he can keep his lower limit, this is very important, maybe he may not be able to go in front of the national table tennis, he has been eliminated.