The 13-year-old girl won four gold medals in women's singles, women's doubles, mixed doubles, and women's team in the World Youth Championship. This sounds like the beginning of a story about the big devil in the table tennis world.

Zhang Benmeihe.

　　It's just that this girl is not from Guoping, but the sister of Japanese table tennis star Zhang Ben Chiwa-Zhang Ben Meihe.

　　In the U15 level of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championship that ended a few days ago, Zhang Benmeihe became the four champions.

She is walking the path her brother has walked, and is growing into an opponent that Guo Ping can not ignore.

Zhang Benmeihe.

　　Zhang Benmeihe was born in 2008. She has shown a strong talent for table tennis since she was a child.

In 2015, she had already won the U8 age group at the Japan Domestic Championships.

　　In April 2018, in the "National Team Hope Star" competition held in Japan, Zhang Ben Miwa scored 31 wins and 1 loss, ranked first among all players and was selected for the Japanese national junior team.

Zhang Benzhihe is in the game.

Photo by An Yuan

　　Also in 2018, Zhang Benzhihe officially entered the field of vision of Chinese fans.

In several open competitions, Zhang Benzhihe defeated Chinese players one after another, including two Grand Slam winners Ma Long and Zhang Jike.

　　From then on, the story of this family began to be known.

Their parents are from Sichuan Province, China, and were originally table tennis players.

In 2014, the siblings and their father Zhang Yu became Japanese nationals together.

　　This kind of background makes every match between Zhang Benzhihe and Chinese players be given more meaning to the outside world.

　　Some time ago, on the 90th anniversary of its founding, the Japan Table Tennis Association announced its 100th anniversary long-term plan, announcing that it would surpass China in 2031 and become the world's number one table tennis power.

Zhang Benmeihe.

　　Compared with China, Japan does not have such a strong pool of talents of all ages, but it has no small ambitions. Therefore, Japanese audiences have paid a lot of attention to every talented player.

　　Under the comprehensive cultivation of the Japanese table tennis team, the brothers and sisters of Zhang's family also grew rapidly on the court.

　　In the 2020 Hungarian Open, only 17-year-old Zhang Benzhihe won the championship.

On the same day he won the championship, 11-year-old Zhang Benmeihe won the U15 Women's Singles Championship in the Swedish Junior Open.

　　As a result, Zhang Ben Chiwa and Zhang Ben Miwa also set a record-becoming the first brothers and sisters to hold the World Tour Championship, while the younger sister holds the Youth Tour Championship.

Winning the same day also made this record even more special.

　　After the World Youth Championships, Japanese netizens even utterly praised Zhang Benmei on social media.

　　Some people even think that Zhang Benmeihe will surpass Mima Ito in the future.

This argument is not unreasonable. At a young age, she seems to be better than Mima Ito in terms of physical fitness, and she is likely to grow into a world-class singles player in the future.

　　In addition, she and her brother played mixed doubles together, which is also a scene that many people look forward to.

Especially in this year's Tokyo Olympics, after the Japanese team won a mixed doubles gold medal, the expectations of Japanese fans have become even higher.

　　Talking about his younger sister, Zhang Benzhihe also said: "I think my younger sister may surpass me in grades."

Screenshot of Zhang Benzhi and social media.

　　Looking at Zhang Benzhihe's social media accounts, in addition to table tennis, there are many photos of him and his sister.

Over the years, the brothers and sisters have encouraged each other and struggled together on the table tennis arena that they love together.

　　Facing the powerful Chinese table tennis team, these Japanese players are more like sharp knives, hoping to break through a certain weakness of their opponents.

　　This is true from the former Ai Fukuhara, to Mima Ito and Tomokazu Zhangmoto who are now in their prime, to Miwa Zhangmoto who is emerging in the world arena.

　　However, while Zhang Benmei and the World Youth Championship won four gold medals, the 17-year-old Kuaiman of the Chinese team also won the U19 women's singles, women's doubles and women's team championships.

The theme of the story of Japanese table tennis people is "brave", so the story of national table tennis is called "inheritance".

　　In any case, the emergence of young and fresh talented players is something to be happy about. Perhaps this is the charm of table tennis and competitive sports.

(Author Wang Hao)