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<p class="prologue">＜Paris Olympics (Olympics): Table Tennis＞◇1st (Japan time 2nd)◇Men's singles quarterfinal◇Paris South Arena</p>
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<p>[Paris = Wataru Matsumoto] Japan's ace and world rank 9, Tomokazu Zhang (21 = Tomokazu Planning), missed his first individual medal.</p>
<p>He lost 3-4 to Fan Zhendong (China), who has 2 wins and 7 losses against him and is ranked 4th with consecutive victories in the World Championships. He took the first two games but was equalized, won the fifth game 11-4, putting him on the brink of victory. However, he lost the last two games and unfortunately could not prevail.</p>
<p>Key comments from Zhang after the match are as follows:</p>
<p>◆ “This is a satisfactory result among the matches I lost. If it were not the Olympics, I might have finished with a smile, but since it's the Olympics, in the end, losing 0-4 or 3-4 is the same. The quality was good, but the result was a disappointing match.”</p>
<p>◆ “Honestly, even if this were 5 games, I would probably have been caught up at 1-0, and in 9 games, I was caught up from 3-0 to 3-3. I think, after all, to beat China, it might come down to the last game. They aren't opponents I can beat 4-0 or 4-1, and when it reached 3-3, I told myself, ‘This is a match I must win 4-3 beforehand. They won't let me win 4-2,’ but I think that still wasn’t enough.”</p>
<p>◆ “In the next four years, when I stand on that court, if I am not at a higher level, I believe I will lose again in four years. The Olympics are the most important, but if I do not attain a higher level over those four years, I don’t think I will win a medal.”</p>
<p>◆ “At the moment it became 7-8 in the sixth game, it is just a one-point difference, but I thought ‘That one point is endlessly far away.’ Even when I led 7-6 in the last game, I knew it was impossible without extending the lead; the rally at 7-6 was good, but I still couldn't take it. In the big rallies, I was losing with a mindset of 30%-70%, so it wasn't bad, but I think I had a few more mistakes.”</p>
<p>◆ “After all, results generally go as most people predict. Occasionally there are upsets, but basically about 80-90% it’s somewhat Fan Zhendong. If I were asked as a third party, ‘Who do you think will win?’ I would vaguely say Fan Zhendong has the advantage. That is everything. If in four years, someone asks, ‘Who will win, Zhang or Fan Zhendong or (world rank 1) Wang Chuqin?’ and they can say, ‘Probably not Zhang?’ then I think that is when I will finally win a gold medal. Generally, things progress according to the broad predictions. I think I need to make it a three or four-year period so that I can be told that.”</p>
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