Table tennis WTT Macau Championship is in full swing. On the evening of September 10, Beijing time, Japanese star Mikazu Kazumi made a debut and swept the Romanian world runner-up Samara 3-0 in his debut, and only allowed the opponent to score 1 point in the first game. In addition, he lost 3 goals in the second game and only 2 goals in the third game, which was a unilateral "beat", thus advancing to the top 16 strongly: Currently, the Japanese women's singles have maintained a four-game winning streak, but the Japanese men's singles have lost 3 games in a row and have not won yet. The contrast is indeed obvious - please see below for more details.
Jack Ben Mika and Samara were born in 2008 and 1989 respectively, with a difference of 19 years. They can be said to be not the same senior table tennis player at all. Samara had already won the women's singles runner-up in the World Cup as early as 2012, while Jack Ben Mika was the third place in the women's singles in the 2024 World Cup, so both of them had been on the singles podium in the World Championships.
However, as a 36-year-old veteran, Samara's current state is obviously unable to compete with 17-year-old Kanemoto Mi-he. The two only had a confrontation in the WTT Swedish Grand Slam last month, and Kanemoto Mi-he won 3-1, so she is generally more optimistic about her young win again in this battle.
After the start of the game, Samara was constantly in a passive position in the first game, and soon fell behind 1-10 and lost steadily. Then she directly took the serve and lost points and lost one game with a 1-11 defeat. She was basically beaten by Zhang Benmi-he and had to be passive.
The situation in the second game was still "one-sided". Samara came up again and was stunned when she fell behind 1-7. She fought back and recovered only 2 points. In the end, she lost 3-11 and was forced into a desperate situation. If she lost another game, she would be eliminated.
In the third game, Zhang Benmika still played very loosely and took the lead without any effort. Samara still made mistakes and lost 6 points in a row at the beginning. After recovering 1 goal, he continued to be widened. In the end, he lost all the game 2-11, and stopped at the top 32 of the women's singles in the first round.
A total of 8 Japanese athletes participated in this competition, including 2 wins and 1 loss on the first day (September 9). Ito Mima swept Australian athletes Liu Yangzi 3-0 and Satsuki Otori reversed the No. 1 Korean table tennis team Shen Yubin 3-2. The men's singles Keikawa Matsushima lost to the main champion of the national table tennis Olympic champion Wang Chuqin 1-3 and was eliminated in the first round of the game.
The Japanese men's singles players still performed poorly on the second day, with Dato Totsuka losing 1-3 to Danish player Grote, and Junsuke Togaki losing 2-3 to South Korean young player Wu Shicheng; the women's singles continued to win, with Shina Hayata sweeping Huang Yihua from Taipei, China 3-0, and Mikazu Kazuki also easily defeating Samara from Romania 3-0.
Next, the top Japanese table tennis player Zhang Benzhihe will make his debut on September 11, facing Xue Fei, a famous national table tennis player who has defeated him this year. So who can laugh to the end of this duel between the two? The suspense still exists, and I wait for the game to start.
