The Japanese Table Tennis T League is in full swing, Beijing time on January 7 news, the first half of the event MVP (Most Valuable Player) has been released, but it is not Zhang Benzhihe, Ishikawa Yoshizumi and other national table tennis opponents, but in the Japanese national team can not be ranked in the main ranks of Kawa Mizuki (won 12 games), Hashimoto Fano ka (won 14 games).
But it is no wonder, after all, the energy of the main players is mostly focused on the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships and other international competitions, like Ito Mimachi can not look at the T League at all, so far has not joined, and Zhang Benzhihe, Ishikawa Yoshijun may not have the number of appearances and Kawaraki, Hashimoto Fan Naoka to win more, MVP title round they are not surprising.
In fact, Kawazuki and Hashimoto Aresei are also very well-known athletes in Japan, the former was unknown before last year, but the 2021 Japanese Table Tennis National Championships was black to the end and won the men's singles championship; the latter is a rare sharpball player in the table tennis world, with solid basic skills and certain strength, but the gap is relatively large compared with hitomi Sato and other players of the same school.
Of course, the above athletes and the main force of the Japanese national team together must be incomparable, after all, their foreign war results are average, the international popularity is very low, and the commercial value is naturally greatly discounted, so they can only make up for it with more appearances, and the money earned is also hard money, and Zhang Benzhihe, Ito Mimachi, Ishikawa Yoshinori, such sports star-level players can not be compared.
Taking the T-League in December 2021 as an example, Zhang Benzhihe and Ishikawa Yoshijun did not play at all, and this attitude alone was doomed to lose the MVP title; while Hirano Miyu and Hayata Shina were slightly better, and they were late in the last two games at the end of the month; Niwa Takashi was more diligent, but he did not fight with strong opponents.
As for Ito's words, don't say the T League, that is, the international well-known commercial events (such as the WTT World Cup final), she has no interest, and she has recently released words: her two major goals are the Japan National Championships and the Chinese Team World Table Tennis Championships, and she must maintain a total victory!
It can be said that the current table tennis has developed to a very critical moment, Japan, China, the International Table Tennis Federation are on the road of commercialization, marketization of various attempts, but compared with tennis, football, basketball there is still a big gap, so we still wait and see how it changes!