In the olympic table tennis women's singles semifinals, China's Sun Yingsha swept Japan's Ito 4-0.
Sun Yingsha's happy victory ignited the passion of the people and also swept away the haze of the national table tennis mixed doubles loss a few days ago.
From the mixed doubles defeat to Ito Mimakoto a few days ago, to the current four straight sets to achieve "revenge", the national table tennis has defended the national honor head-on on the field.
And Ito Mimachi, the "biggest opponent of national table tennis in the past decade", has finally been thwarted.
After the game, she could not hide her disappointment and accepted the interview with tears in her eyes, obviously hit by the result of the defeat.
Although the post-00s player, who is known for her competitive spirit, has "shaved her head", she will pose a certain threat to us for a long time to come.
While celebrating the victory of the national table tennis, we may as well talk about how Ito Mimakoto, the opponent who sounded the national table tennis alarm, was cultivated?
01 Ping-pong prodigy under the education of Tiger Mother
Born in October 2000 in Shizuoka, Japan, Ito's parents are both table tennis players.
When Ito was young, her parents chose to divorce, and then Mimako lived with her mother, Ito Minari.
The background of the ping-pong family made the single mother, Minel Li, hope that the daughter would become a phoenix, so she implemented a strict elite education for her daughter.
Xiao Meicheng has been exposed to table tennis since he was 2 years old and has been undergoing systematic training since he was 5 years old.
In his early years, Ito had to practice at least 7 hours a day, and if he lost a game, he was trained for 1-2 hours.
Even when her daughter was sleeping, She kept chanting "Only you can win the Chinese team in the future" to cultivate her competitive spirit.
After years of devil training, Ito Hasto embarked on the road of table tennis as her mother wished, becoming a supernova in the Japanese table tennis world.
02 Carrying the "hope of the whole village" of Japanese women's table tennis
At the expense of childhood, Ito has exchanged her career for a career advancement.
In 2010, 10-year-old Ito won the Japan National Table Tennis Championships.
This set a new record for the age of Japanese golfers to win, and at that time, Mimako's backpack was full of toys and snacks...
Then "savage growth" she began to rampage in the table tennis arena, attracting attention with stunning performances again and again.
At the two German Opens in 2014 and 2015, Ito won the women's doubles and women's singles championships.
Among them, in 2014, Ito and his partner Miyu Hirano won the women's doubles championship, and broke the record of the youngest tour champion held by Guo Yue at the age of 13 years and 160 days.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, she was less than 16 years old and won the bronze medal in the team competition with Ai Fukuhara and Yoshizumi Ishikawa.
The timeline comes to 2018, and this year Ito Mimakoto truly shocked the world with four words.
She won four consecutive (former) world championships at the Swedish Open, including three Chinese players.
Since the quarter-finals, she has staged three consecutive reversals.
First, she defeated Singapore's Feng Tianwei to reach the quarterfinals with a score of 4-3.
In the quarterfinals, facing Olympic champion Liu Shiwen, she reversed 4-3 again after falling behind 1-3, and in the semifinals, she let the two chase four eliminate Ding Ning 4-2.
The domineering reversal along the way gave the talented girl great confidence, and in the final, she even directly swept Zhu Yuling, who was ranked first in the world at the time, 4-0.
The extremely strong performance of this road has made many media start to call "wolves are coming", and also let the Chinese team really pay attention to Ito Yoshimachi.
Under the targeted study of Chinese national table tennis, Ito's subsequent win rate against national table tennis players decreased significantly.
A few months later, at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, she lost 1-4 to Sun Yingsha and was blocked out of the round of 16.
In the Swedish Open in the same year, as the defending champion, she and Chen Meng fought seven games in the final, and finally lost 3-4.
Overall, in recent years, Ito Mimako and women's table tennis records are slightly inferior, but there are also wins and losses.
As of 2021, Ito has won 8 open championships and has beaten Chinese players every year for the past 4 years.
She has not only grown into the hope of the whole village in Japan, but also become a new threat to national table tennis.
03 The Olympic Games "recruit people to be suspicious" and have a good reputation in private
Ito Performed strongly during the Olympic Games, but many netizens were very disgusted by her, and there were mockeries, attacks and even insults about her.
The biggest reason for this lies in Ito's slightly exaggerated expression management, which is the "arrogance" in the eyes of many netizens.
During the game, Ito will show a strange face when winning, and after losing, he will quickly blacken his face and even roll his eyes.
Under the disappointment of the national table tennis loss, seeing Ito Mimako's slightly "flamboyant" expression, many netizens under the stirring of patriotic emotions are difficult to have a good feeling for her.
And Ito Mimachi's "method" style strange serve that appeared many times in the game has also become another "disgust point" for netizens to a certain extent due to strange actions.
But in essence, these controversial expressions/movements of Ito are the embodiment of his competitive spirit.
In many previous games, Ito Hasto has shown all kinds of serious killing.
And chagrin and even crying after losing is her routine operation, and this little girl in her early 20s is obviously easy to get on top of the game.
And such a direct temperament also made Ito Mimako become the venting point of anger of some netizens after defeating the national table tennis.
But just like the comments of some rational netizens, if similar performances are transposed to Zhu Ting, Zhang Jike and others, the wind evaluation will be different.
So in any case, the expression is only a way for athletes to release their passion, and it should not be a reason for them to blacken.
In fact, although in the Olympic Games with the national table tennis players in various battles, Ito Mimakoto and their relationship is very good.
During the 2020 competition in China, Ito asked the Chinese Table Tennis Association to participate in the joint training, and the Table Tennis Association sent Chen Meng, Fan Zhendong and coach Ma Lin to practice with her.
During the joint exercise, she brought the rice balls made by her mother to Chen Meng and others, and also chatted with Coach Ma Lin, who likes to eat.
For Sun Yingsha, who is the same age, Ito Mimakoto has a natural affinity with her peers.
These two post-00s also compared the arms and thighs in front of the camera regardless of the image, and the picture was very interesting.
In the field of competition, Ito Hassan has been a national table tennis opponent for many years, but she will also be a friendly friend.
On the other hand, behind the rise of Ito Mimakoto and the recent public opinion storm, we can also see the pattern of the national table tennis dream team.
After losing the mixed doubles, Xu Xin praised Ito Asahi as a world-class player and praised the opponent's excellent ability to resist pressure.
On the night of the loss, when Marlene left the field, head coach Liu Guoliang also chose to comfort the other party with a warm hug.
Even Sun Yingsha, a female table tennis player who swept through Ito, said in an interview that she was enjoying the battle more than "revenge":
Win or lose, I enjoyed the game when I played with her.
The attitude of this group of people who are not proud of victory and defeat also shows the calmness that the national table tennis people have always had.
In fact, the rise of Ito Mimachi has also "exposed" the big pattern of China's national table tennis to a certain extent.
In 2009, Cai Zhenhua, then head of national table tennis, proposed a "wolf raising plan" to help foreign players improve their level.
He believes that the dominance of the national table tennis company is not conducive to the development of table tennis, so he once planned to give up the mixed doubles gold medal of the World Table Tennis Championships to encourage other associations...
Since 2009, the Table Tennis Association has provided assistance to foreign players from many aspects such as venue, experience and technology, and even drafted a plan to help the development of foreign table tennis.
During the 50th World Table Tennis Championships, the Table Tennis Association sent several players to serve as sparring partners for Bol, Samnosov and others.
Over the years, they also have a tradition of inviting foreign players to participate in joint training, including Yoshinori Ishikawa, Mimachi Ito and others.
After Ito won the championship in 2018 with a strong performance of three consecutive national players, the Japanese media HNK news headlines thanked Cai Zhenhua for this.
Now, as Ito grows into a national table tennis threat, Cai Zhenhua's former wolf raising plan has moved.
But even if she won the gold medal from the Chinese team this year, judging from the calm reaction of the national table tennis, this dashing posture of being the overlord still exists.
After all, counting the gold medals in the women's singles and men's singles that have been in the pocket, since the olympic table tennis was established, the national table tennis has won 30 of the 35 gold medals.
Perhaps, in the near future, there will still be the next alarm of the wolf coming.
But in the eyes of the national table tennis people in the big pattern, they will continue to enjoy the process of "dancing with wolves", and this is also the game that a generation of overlords should have!
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