Recently, it was interviewed by Ito Mimachi, a fierce rival of national table tennis and a Japanese Olympic champion, to summarize her 2021, so she used three Chinese characters, namely - "happy", "bitter" and "fan".
At the same time, Ito is also looking forward to the upcoming 2022 season, and has set a new goal, that is, to win the team World Table Tennis Championships in May next year (hosted in Chengdu, China)!
Judging from Ito's record in recent years, she has been able to maintain a total victory against other association players, so the requirements of this goal can be simply summarized into another sentence, that is, to defeat the main force of the Chinese team! So can the player who does not accept defeat get his wish? The suspense still exists, and the national table tennis must be prevented!
Friends who are familiar with Ito Mimachi know that the rise of the post-00s Japanese teenager began at the World Table Tennis Championships - in 2018, Ito Mimachi defeated Olympic champion Liu Shiwen in the final of the Women's Team of the World Table Tennis Championships, thus becoming the only athlete to break through the defense line of the national table tennis women's team at that time.
After this battle, Ito Beimachi began to enter a period of rapid development of his career, and then defeated Ding Ning (who had already won once in 2016), Zhu Yuling, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, Wu Yang and almost all the main world champions of national table tennis at that time, leaving only Chen Meng who had not yet been broken by her.
Therefore, the battlefield of the team world table tennis championships can indeed be regarded as the "blessed land" of Ito's career, so I hope to create good results again next year.
After the arrival of 2021, Ito Mishimachi was surprised and distressed - at the Tokyo Olympic Games, she and Mizutani Hayabusa won the "opening red", the mixed doubles defeated the national table tennis world champion group Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen to win the gold medal, and also became the first Olympic champion pair in the history of the project.
But the subsequent Olympic singles, team and World Table Tennis Championships doubles, singles, Ito Mimachi failed to break through the Chinese team's defense line again, and finally won 2 silver and 1 bronze medal: compared to the lower (other foreign association athletes) is more than enough, but compared to the upper (national table tennis) is obviously insufficient, so Ito Mimachi's summary of 2021's three words is indeed very accurate:
"Le" - became an Olympic champion;
"Bitter" - against the national table tennis is still more than the loss of the win less;
"Fan" - full of confusion about the future of the future.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Ito claimed to have been working on how to "win more Chinese athletes," but apparently the results backfired. However, Ito is also very glad that he can continue to grow, and bluntly said that "how much fun and personality you can show in the game" is the key to winning the game.
Because she only studied large-scale events, Ito gave up many opportunities to play, including the WTT World Cup final after the World Table Tennis Championships, and the T League in Japan, and her next goal was the National Championships in Japan and the Team World Table Tennis Championships in China.
But it is clear that Ito, who has won the national championship many times, is more eager to win the gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships, but she also understands that her teammates are average, so she does not talk about winning the championship, but only hopes that she can win all - so will the national table tennis give her this opportunity? So let's wait and see!