Japanese media published an interview with Ito about why they didn't participate in the WTT World Cup. Ito Mimachi: "I feel that the WTT World Cup Finals held by Liu Guoliang are a bit like entertainment programs, not the world cup in the true sense at all, such a game is not as good as not participating."
Is it really an entertainment game? The WTT World Cup is an invitation to the top 16 athletes in the men's and women's singles of the world's table tennis federations. And the prize money is rich, and the strength of the table tennis association players is also very strong, not an entertainment competition at all, but a competition with a high gold content. Ito Mimachi is obviously blind and blind, she has been studied thoroughly by the national table tennis coaching team, more and more people beat her in women's table tennis, and was defeated by Wang Yidi at the World Table Tennis Championships, making Ito almost desperate.
Zhang Yining's prediction came true after she said that Ito would no longer be a threat to women's table tennis after the age of 20. Now, Ito, like Hirano Miyu, is now a loser of the five main players of women's table tennis, and there is little chance to win again, but she has only insisted on it longer than Hirano, for 2 years.
Overall, the Japanese table tennis women's team has made great progress in recent years, Ishikawa, Hirano, Ito, Hayata have risen successively, its strength is second only to the national table tennis, where the national table tennis abandoned the international open, the champion is often picked up by them into the pocket, and Ito is one of the best, plus she beats the main force of women's table tennis from time to time, it becomes arrogant.
However, Ito has made a lot of money this year, and at the Olympic Games, Ito won a gold, silver and bronze medal with a total prize of 10 million yen, which is the largest prize money among the 6 members of the Japanese table tennis team. Moreover, the Japan Table Tennis Association receives 300 million yen of government funds every year for development, and Ito Mimakoto, as the leader of Japanese table tennis, earns a lot of money.
Who can win a Grand Slam at The Mansa? Chen Mengcha is a world table tennis singles champion, Wang Manyu is still a singles champion in the Olympic Games and the World Cup, and Sun Yingsha is also a singles champion in the Olympic Games and the World Table Tennis Championships. The next World Table Tennis Championships still needs to wait until 2023, when Chen Meng will be 29 years old and his physical fitness and state will be in doubt.
Wang Manyu is the Olympic singles champion, and the next Olympic Games will be in 2024. Sun Yingsha needs to compete with Chen Meng at the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships, and Wang Manyu at the 2024 Olympic Games.