In this season's Japan Table Tennis League, Hitomi Sato, who played for Kyushu Club, played against Paint Club in the first set of women's doubles matches with Makoto Shiomi, and finally lost 1-2 (11-9/6-11/6-11/6-11) to Opponents Sazuki Oto/Shibata Shaji in the first game, and the Kyushu Club led by Hitomi Sato also lost 0-3 to the Paint Women's Team. Once the world's top-ranked chipper, he was once famous for his victory over Ding Ning, and even Hitomi Sato once approached Japan's three main players, Ito Mimako, Ishikawa Yoshizumi hirano, but recently lost consecutive elections to the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, and the fourth main force has been far from being thrown away by Hayata Hina.
Hitomi Sato is a female table tennis player who plays with a sharp ball, her cutting skills are solid, the quality of the defensive end is very high, and the interference of pulling the ball judgment of the attacking players through the constant change of the chipping point is also very large, and the suddenness of the counter-attack is also very much. Hitomi Sato often represented the Japanese women's team in major open tournaments during the Tokyo Olympic cycle, ranking 11th in the world, and defeated Ding Ning twice in 2019, becoming a rare highlight of her career, she once participated in the 2019 World Cup team competition as the main force of the Japanese women's team and won the runner-up.
The women's doubles in the first set of the match was against Paint's Shibata Sasuke/ Sazuki Ohto and Kyushu's Hitomi Sato/Shinki Shiomi. In the first set, the double-cut combination of Shinki Shiomi / Hitomi Sato was more tacit, the stability of the cut ball was relatively strong, and the opponent Shibata Saji / Oto Sazuki pulled the ball very much, always did not find the rhythm of the chipping ball, pulling the attack appeared to go down the net and out of bounds more, although the end of the innings saved 3 innings, still 9-11 defeat. Hitomi Sato/ Shinki Shiomi, who had won the first set, were tightly controlled by their opponents in the second set, and Shibata Saji / Oto Shazuki paid attention to controlling the landing point, moving the two chipping opponents back and forth, left and right, seeing the opportunity to attack again, while reducing self-defeat, and the paint team pulled back the score 11-6 in this round. The tiebreaker began with a tangled score, and the two sides fell into a tug-of-war between control and counter-control, but at the end of the game, Shibata Saji/ Oto Sazuki won consecutive balls, and the score gradually widened, and finally the 11-6 paint team took the lead in the first set of doubles to get the first point.
Hitomi Sato's current main position in the Japanese women's team is gradually declining, in the face of more and more young players continue to emerge, insisting on defensive play is slowly lagging behind, her world ranking has approached the top 10, but with Hayata Hina, Nagasaki Miyu, Kihara Miyu, Shibata Saji and other players getting better and better, Sato Hitomi may be difficult to stand in the main layer of the Japanese women's team, the 2022 Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships team team Japan women's team 5 participants, there is a high probability of not seeing the former world's no. 1 sharpshooter. At present, the Japanese women's team Hayata Hina is thriving, singles results are getting stronger and stronger, Ito Mimachi, Hirano Miyu and Ishikawa Yoshijun also occupy the position of the three main forces, the 5th person in the competition to participate in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and reached the women's singles 16 Shaji Shibata also has a certain lead, Hitomi Sato wants to compete for the World Table Tennis Championships, the only way out is to win the championship in the women's singles of the All Japan Championships, this task is almost impossible for her to complete!