Mika Maba, the head coach of the Japanese women's table tennis team in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, has cultivated two major table tennis rivals in 5 years, that is, Hirano Miyu and Ito Mimako who are stepping on the shoulders of the national table tennis, and she believes that the time when Japanese players can attack the whole time is the day they defeat the national table tennis and win the championship. Mika Baba's position as head coach of the Japanese women's team has been replaced by Takehiro Watanabe.
After the Rio 2016 Rio Olympics, Mika Baba began to serve as the head coach of the Japanese women's table tennis team, which was the beginning of the official blood change of the Japanese women's team, the Rio Olympic Women's Singles 4th Ai Fukuhara officially retired, ishikawa Yoshinori with Hirano Miyu and Ito Mimachi two youngsters began to compete for the Japanese women's team in the Tokyo Olympic cycle. Under the leadership of Mika Baba, the Japanese women's table tennis team has gradually become the world's women's table tennis team outside of national table tennis.
Looking back at the time when Ai Fukuhara was in the team, the Japanese women's table tennis team has always been the world's top team, but the results are not stable. The 2004 World Table Tennis Championships women's team lost to Hong Kong, China, missed the final championship and runner-up finals, the 2006 World Table Tennis Championships women's team semi-finals again lost 2-3 to Hong Kong, China, the 2008 World Championships and olympic games were even more suppressed by Singapore and South Korea, the London Olympic cycle Japanese women's team in the 2012 London Olympic Games women's team for the first time to reach the final and second place, to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games but unexpectedly lost 2-3 to the German women's team semifinals. A series of achievements have proved that the Japanese women's team has a certain impact, but the temporary play is unstable, often before encountering the Chinese women's team, it has been Singapore and South Korea. Asian rivals such as Hong Kong were eliminated early.
After taking office, Maba Mika has been more effective in building the advantage of the Japanese women's team group, and a number of young and impactful talented girls have emerged, with Miyu Hirano and Ito Mimachi and even younger Miyu Kihara, Miyu Nagasaki, and Sasuke Shibata all showing the talent of the Japanese women's team, and they have also achieved a series of good results in the international arena. In 2016, Hirano Won the first World Cup singles title for Japanese women's table tennis, although the national table tennis Grand Slam Ding Ning and the world number One Liu Shiwen did not participate, but was able to beat Zheng Yijing, Feng Tianwei and other Asian opponents to win the championship, but also proved that the 16-year-old Hirano Miyu rose the ball. The 2017 Asian Championships were a string of three, Hirano Miyu defeated Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling and Chen Meng, the three main players of national table tennis, to win the Asian championship, and also let The horse park Mika have more confidence and motivation at the beginning of her coaching.
After Winning the Women's Singles Championships in the World Cup and Asian Championships, Hirano Miyu was strengthened by the national table tennis research, and Hirano's power gradually weakened, and was eventually surpassed by her doubles partner Ito Mimako. Ito took over the baton of Hirano Miyu, the 2018 Open began to emerge, the number one threat to the Chinese women's table tennis team, the 2020 World Cup and the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games all won the women's singles third place, the results are very stable, in addition to the main force of national table tennis, it is difficult to have an opponent to beat Ito Mimako. At the Tokyo Olympics, Ito and Hayabusa Mizutani won the first Olympic gold medal for Japanese table tennis, including the women's team head coach Mika Baba.
When asked by the Japanese media when the Japanese women's team can defeat the Chinese team, she said that as long as the moment of the whole attack is the day to defeat the Chinese table tennis team. I am afraid that in the process of control and anti-control of table tennis, it is difficult for the Japanese table tennis team to control the whole attack after control, and it is difficult to defeat Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha, the three main players of national table tennis, in a short period of time, regardless of who the head coach is.