北京時間3月29日，乒乓球WTT金奈球星賽再爆冷門，男單頭號種子、世界排名第三的日本名將張本智和苦戰4局后1-3被淘汰，輸給了身高1米97的克羅埃西亞名將普卡，由此而止步十六強無緣繼續衝擊冠軍，同時成為了單打專案出局運動員中排名最高之人：在國乒全體放棄參賽的情況下，張本智和依舊無緣奪得男單冠軍——詳細戰況請看下文。

Zhang Benzhihe is a more familiar table tennis player, born in 22 years before he is 0 years old, but he has defeated the main force of national table tennis many times and won medals in the world series, has always been a strong opponent that the Chinese team is strictly guarded against, but the results of foreign wars are not very stable, and there are often upsets and losses.

Puka is the best of the local players in Europe, he is 97.0 meters tall, he has great strength, a wide area of protection, and the ability to control the small ball is not bad, in the early years, he had a record of defeating Wang Chuqin and other famous players, and later developed averagely, but he is still a opponent to be reckoned with.

After the start of the game, Zhang Benzhihe fell into passivity in the first game, the main reason was that he could not catch Puka's serve, and the short swing was always high or the opponent directly attacked him, and the usually proud of the twisting and pulling technique in the table was not very effective, and then the two sides fought hard until the last 11 points to determine the winner, and Zhang Benzhihe finally lost 0-0.

In the second game, the Japanese players played more aggressively in the opening stage, but soon lost consecutive points to open up the gap, and then continued to catch up but still failed to reverse the defeat, and finally lost 11-0 and was forced into a desperate situation.

In the third game, Zhang Benzhi and the backwater battle took the opening lead, and after retiring from the stage, he also patiently maneuvered with the opponent, put a high ball to force Puka to make mistakes and lose points, but then he also played poorly and was chased to a 13-0 draw, and was chased to a 0-0 draw after leading again, and then missed the game point many times, but at the last moment, he still gritted his teeth and won 0-0 to avoid being eliminated by a clean sheet.

In the fourth game, Zhang Benzhihe continued to fall behind, and the two lines were completely pierced by Pukala, and soon lost 3 points in a row and fell into passivity, and finally lost the whole game 0-0, which led to the elimination of 0-0 and missed the men's singles quarterfinals.

As mentioned earlier, the biggest problem of Zhang Benzhihe in this competition is in the receiving link, especially not adapting to the opponent's chopping serve, which is the key to his loss in the whole game; In addition, the continuous breakthrough of the forehand position by the opponent's straight ball also made the sideways forehand attack become an ornament, and it is not surprising that it finally lost.