On the evening of February 16, Beijing time, the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships ushered in a very interesting showdown, in the women's team Japan vs Luxembourg battle, the 15-year-old Chinese teenager Zhang Benmeihe appeared on the stage, and the 60-year-old world champion predecessor Ni Xialian played a trick, as a result, Zhang Benmeihe won 3-0 with a large advantage, but also encountered certain difficulties.
Although the age difference is 45 years, Zhang Benmei and Ni Xialian are both fighting for victory, this fighting spirit is indeed worthy of everyone's praise, and I would like to applaud the performance of the two athletes!
Zhang Benmeihe was born in 2008, Ni Xialian was born in 1963, the two are athletes of completely different eras, and their playing styles are very different - Zhang Benmeihe is a horizontal two-sided reverse rubber arc ball player, good at winning hard matches; And Ni Xialian is a straight-shooting long rubber athlete, winning with monsters, which is also her magic weapon for more than 40 years of winning in the international arena.
Although in terms of technological advancement and physical strength, Zhang Benmeihe has an absolute advantage, but Ni Xialian's strange rubber playing style is very easy to make young players uncomfortable, and she has defeated the strongest player after the national table tennis 04 Kuo Man, and Zhang Benmeihe may not be able to win her this time.
Before the start of the game, Zhang Benmeihe's father Zhang Benyu continued to guide his daughter outside the court, after all, he used to be a Chinese table tennis player, so he still has a certain understanding of Ni Xialian's style of play.
Sure enough, in the first game, Zhang Benmeihe had obvious discomfort with Ni Xialian's ball path, and soon fell behind, but at this time, the game was suddenly interrupted, and after returning to the game, the two chased after me, and played inextricably, as a result, Zhang Benmeihe forced the defense to break the defense with a very high-quality two-sided arc ball, and then won the first place with 12-10 thrilling.
In the second game, Zhang Benmeihe completely grasped the initiative on the court, and constantly suppressed Ni Xialian's success, but this time only let the old-timers get 3 points to end the battle and win heartily. In the third game, Ni Xialian lost the battle, and Zhang Benmeihe locked the final victory with 11-8, thus winning points for the Japanese women's team with a big score of 3-0.
Although she lost the game, it is rare for Ni Xialian to appear in the World Table Tennis Arena at the age of 60, and I look forward to her later performance becoming more and more brilliant and bringing us more excitement: Come on!