Title: Revealing the Secret of National Table Tennis Encountering Japan's Unpopularity, Why Japan Is More Difficult to Deal With than South Korea?
In the recent Chengdu Table Tennis Mixed Team World Cup, the national table tennis experienced a thrilling showdown. Despite the eventual victory, a match against Japan was the focus of attention. Why did this match make the national table tennis feel so dangerous, and why was the final with South Korea so easy?Today, we're going to dig into this issue and get to the bottom of it.
First of all, let's put yourself in your shoes: you are a national table tennis fan and are eagerly looking forward to their performance in the World Cup. However, when you watch the match between the national table tennis team and the Japanese team, your heart beats faster and you are nervous. Losing a few games almost let the victory slip away, and finally had the last laugh through the advantage of overall strength. All this makes people wonder: why is Japan a greater threat to national table tennis than South Korea?Is it true that Japan has been hiding its strength?
After an in-depth analysis, we found that this situation stems from multiple factors, and there are three main factors. First of all, Japan and South Korea have their own strengths. In short, Japan were more threatening in the first three sets of the Mixed Doubles, Women's Singles and Men's Singles, while South Korea were relatively strong in the last three sets of the Men's Singles, Men's and Women's Doubles. Such a difference in skill points has led to a completely different record from the national table tennis.
Friends who pay attention to the table tennis world know that in recent years, Japanese women are strong and men are weak, but men have Zhang Benzhi and this bright star. As a result, Japan had a strong impact in the first three sets of the Mixed Doubles, Women's Singles and Men's Singles. In contrast, South Korea's men's players stand out, but the women's players are slightly inferior to Japan's. This difference in skill points allows us to see that the duel between the Japanese team and the national table tennis team has become inseparable, while South Korea pays more attention to the power of the last three sets.
Secondly, we cannot ignore Japan's in-depth study of Chinese table tennis. China has always been a world powerhouse in table tennis, and Japan, as the main opponent, has always regarded China as an object of study, Xi imitation and research. In contrast, although the South Korean team is also strong, it is still inferior to the national table tennis. In addition, there are many Chinese athletes and coaches active in the Japanese table tennis scene, which makes Japan's understanding of national table tennis more profound. In particular, players such as Tomokazu Zhangmoto and Miwa Zhangmoto, even from Chinese families, have a better understanding of Chinese table tennis, which plays an important role in the game.
Finally, let's look at the overall strength of the Korean team. Although South Korea has always been a powerhouse in the table tennis world, creating a threat to national table tennis, the development trend in recent years shows that their strength is relatively average. Although the stability of several main players is very high, their individual combat effectiveness is still insufficient compared to the top Japanese players. Needless to say, the performance of the women's team was that Japan surpassed South Korea in the women's event. On the men's side, Japan's Mizutani Hayabusa and Tomokazu Zhangmoto's highest achievements in the past decade have also surpassed South Korea's. Although South Korean athletes can break through the main force of the Chinese team from time to time, there is still a gap compared with Tomokazu Zhangmoto, who has defeated the main force of national table tennis many times. Therefore, in the face of national table tennis, the probability of South Korean athletes breaking the defense is less than that of Japan, and the above two reasons have led to a significant difference in the battle situation with Japan.
So the question arises: why did Japan lose to South Korea this time?In the World Cup, although the Japanese team scored 5 points in the national table tennis, they only scored 4 points against South Korea, and South Korea was almost kept clean by the national table tennis. Some people think that the Japanese team may be hiding their strength, but I don't agree with that. Japan's match against South Korea is different from the match against the national table tennis match. First of all, Japan has more research on national table tennis and is more relaxed, but it is a little forward-looking and timid towards South Korea, especially in the 5 points of Zhang Ben's brother and sister participating in national table tennis. Secondly, Japan and South Korea are close in mixed doubles, with Jang Woo-jin gaining confidence after winning Tomokazu Changmoto in the men's singles, while Kim Na-young is not very familiar to Hina Hayata. After these three games, the South Korean team has a clear lead.
In the fourth set, South Korea were ranked lower, so they had the right to choose between men's and women's doubles. As a result, they chose the weakest men's doubles player in Japan, thus ending the tournament very quickly. In fact, if the national table tennis can have the option of the fourth set in the Sino-Japanese battle, they may also choose to play men's doubles, so it is estimated that the Japanese team will also be difficult to reach 5 points. In the battle between Japan and South Korea, if the Japanese team has the option of the fourth set, they may choose to send the women's doubles to play, although they do not have an absolute advantage over South Korea, but it is unlikely to lose as badly as the men's doubles, and may even win on a counterattack.
In general, an in-depth analysis of the performance of the national table tennis in the World Cup, we found the differences between Japan and South Korea in terms of skill points, research level, overall strength, etc., thus answering why the national table tennis showed a completely different state in front of the same Asian powerhouse. Competitive sports is not simply a matter of A winning B, B winning C, and C losing to A. Each opponent is unique in their own way, and the outcome of a match is often influenced by a number of factors. I hope you can have a deeper understanding of this topic, and welcome to leave a message to participate in the discussion!