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Editor| Captain Zhang
Among Japanese table tennis players, the most appreciated by Chinese audiences is Ai Fukuhara.
There was a passage in that year, that is, Chairman Liu Guoliang Liu once said: "Whoever cries Fukuhara Ai, who goes to coax." It can be seen that the status of Ai Fukuhara is very high.
However, among the active Japanese players, there is another girl who is also loved by the Chinese people
Yoshiaki Ishikawa (left), Akira Fukuhara (right)
That is - Ishikawa Yoshijun.
In the interview, she answered the Questions of Chinese reporters in a thief's Mandarin, and even blurted out that "the person who most wants to marry is Ma Long."
In Japan, Ishikawa is known as a talent for table tennis, but the girl's path to table tennis is full of hardships. She has experienced loss and confusion at the peak of her career, especially in 2019.
Yoshiaki Ishikawa
01. The growth path of ping pong girls
Ishikawa was born on February 23, 1993 in Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
It is worth mentioning that Ishikawa Yoshinori, like Ai Fukuhara, has a good table tennis atmosphere in the family.
Ai Fukuhara's mother was a table tennis player, and Ishikawa Yoshijun was influenced by her parents as a professional table tennis player.
Since she was a child, her family has hoped that she can inherit the path of table tennis and become a professional table tennis player.
Therefore, when Ishikawa was one year old, she was carried to the table tennis table by her mother and began to constantly contact the sport of table tennis.
Growing up, her mother was never absent, and always did her best to accompany her growing up and played the role of her table tennis coach.
However, Ishikawa Yoshijun also lived up to expectations, perfectly inheriting the strong genes of his parents, and his extraordinary talent for table tennis was gradually displayed under the company and encouragement of his family.
At the age of seven, she only practiced for a few months before she was able to reach the second place in the county competition with her own skills.
Competitive people always want to win at all times. Ishikawa Yoshinori also has a younger sister named Ishikawa Irishiro. Ishikawa Irisori was five years old and played video games with his sister. Every time, Ishikawa Yoshijun would never let his sister compete.
She "hated failure", and her parents converted her home into a table tennis room to facilitate her practice. Every time her mother asked her to practice ten more balls at the end, she would say, "I can still play twenty."
Perhaps, it is precisely because of this character that does not accept defeat, Ishikawa Yoshijun has won one championship after another.
Stepping on the shoulders of the predecessors, the steps will eventually go much smoother.
Since the first grade of elementary school, Ishikawa has been practicing table tennis semi-gamified at the Shiraishi Table Tennis Club.
In the sixth grade of elementary school, Yoshinori Ishikawa, who went to the 2005 Japan Table Tennis Championships, was no less than a high school student or even a college student who was much taller and stronger than herself.
She calmly and easily defeated her opponents one by one, successfully reached the third round and reached the semi-finals, which was why she was known as "Little Love II".
As the youngest contestant, this talented girl also won the championship in the later middle school student competition and youth competition.
Having experienced large and small, pile-by-piece events, she has slowly had higher expectations for herself to be upward.
The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.
At this point, she also understood her mission, and she must continue to move towards higher levels of competition.
When she graduated from elementary school, she left a photo of her innocence and smile in her guestbook, along with the words: I want to participate in the Olympics.
In 2009, Ishikawa had transformed himself into a table tennis world ranking ninety-ninth.
In Yokohama, she competed in the 50th World Table Tennis Championships (individual competition), and in the second round, she won the match with a 0-3 score against the world's tenth-ranked Hong Kong player Theyana, and in the fourth set she won the game with a 3-9 disadvantage, winning three consecutive sets.
Since then, she has also played steadily and won in the third and fourth rounds of matches, successfully advancing to the quarterfinals.
At this time, this is also the second time that a Japanese female athlete has entered the quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships after Ai Fukuhara.
In January 2011, Yoshijun Ishikawa, who was only 17 years and one month old as a high school student, won the all-Japan table tennis championship for the first time since Toshika Sato in 1988, and at the same time, she also broke the record for the youngest champion in the women's singles event.
In March of the same year, Ishikawa graduated from high school and officially signed a contract with JA Jeono in July, thus truly opening up a brilliant path exclusive to her as a professional table tennis player.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Ishikawa finished fourth in the women's singles competition
In the women's team final, together with Hayaka Hirano and Ai Fukuhara, she won the silver medal in the women's team.
The title of "Queen of Table Tennis in Japan" was also derived from this.
As we all know, China has unique advantages in the sport of table tennis, and table tennis can be described as the national ball of the mainland. In order to improve his own skills, the early Ishikawa Yoshijun often came to the mainland to play table tennis and learn from his teachers.
Ishikawa Yoshinori is well aware that playing table tennis requires skill, and if the professional terminology of playing table tennis in China is simply and crudely translated into Japanese, it will completely change the taste, and it is difficult to grasp the essence and mystery of it.
To this end, in order to better seek advice, but also in order to achieve "know each other and know each other, never lose a battle" with Chinese athletes.
She has made real efforts in learning Chinese, taught herself Chinese, and invested a lot of energy and effort.
Sure enough, the Emperor Didn't pay off, and finally with ishikawa Yoshizumi's unremitting persistence and efforts, her Chinese level has improved by leaps and bounds. Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.
However, it is not a coincidence that when people are created, the more seemingly orderly and ready they are, they must not be relaxed.
In 2016, Ishikawa suffered one of the few setbacks in his life.
02. Rio Olympics defeated
There are people outside the people, there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are heavens outside the heavens.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Ishikawa was beaten by North Korean cutter Kim Song-il and was knocked out.
How high you are held, how painful it hurts to fall.
So far, Yoshinori Ishikawa, who was once praised by the Japanese people as a genius girl, has folded her wings.
The more you care about winning or losing, the more you are afraid of change.
Ishikawa's defeat in international competitions gave her a taste of failure.
She has also said that she paces endlessly on the edge of victory and defeat, and in the days of helplessness, life is occupied by endless hesitation and panic.
However, what made her angry was that there was something else that set her up, in addition to the Olympic defeat.
In the interview, Ishikawa Yoshijun, who speaks fluent and standard Mandarin, once confessed that he "loves" Ma Long, the Chinese national table tennis, and the person he most wants to marry is Ma Long.
Ishikawa Yoshinori's praise for Malone was unreserved, and Ishikawa Yoshijun once said:
"Malone is tall, handsome and gentlemanly, a superstar; I often watch Malone's games, and we are big fans of Malone; because Malone is really powerful and gentlemanly, Malone is a very powerful and handsome superstar."
And Malone also responded very generously after learning about this matter:
"Ishikawa Yoshizumi wants to cooperate with me, so I will match her!"
Unfortunately, after many years, the mixed doubles combination of Ma Long and Ishikawa Yoshijun is still missing the following text.
It was at the 2016 Rio Olympics that after Malone won the Olympic men's table tennis men's singles gold medal, he married his girlfriend Xia Lu.
In contrast, Ishikawa remains single and says that Ping-Pong is his boyfriend.
The light of the genius fades away to reveal the true self.
With the fate of the girl who continues to drift, after all, she still stands at the crossroads of life, she has also considered countless times whether she should give up in the end, but giving up has never been her character, she is not willing.
But in 2019, she is already twenty-six years old, her age is gradually falling into embarrassment, if she continues to move forward, there is no doubt that she needs to face the rise of new talents, the renewal of techniques and countless new difficulties of the unknown, so is it really necessary to give up playing table tennis?
Once upon a time, playing table tennis was like her destiny from birth.
However, playing table tennis seems to have long since ceased to be the same as in the past, and playing table tennis has become a fate that she thinks she can identify.
In the face of such a difficult choice, do you have to continue to go on? She often thinks like this.
03. Today
Ishikawa Yoshijun is not only sweet-looking, but also Chinese, and her kindness was once the key to making many fans willing to know her.
She has always maintained a positive attitude, which is the positive energy of Japanese table tennis, and at a time when China was affected by the epidemic, Ishikawa Yoshijun gave all the masks that were left at home to her teammates in Hong Kong, China when she was in the T League.
This move has also been highly praised by fans, calling is Ishikawa Yoshijun a good girl with a kind heart.
However, she was busy training and competition, but she never bought a mask again.
Until the epidemic in Japan became more and more serious, Ishikawa Yoshijun, who did not have a mask, was photographed not wearing a mask at the airport at the Qatar Open, which made fans who liked her very worried.
As a result, there were Japanese media reports that Chinese fans sent 100 masks to Ishikawa Yoshijun.
It can be seen that Chinese fans really love Ishikawa Yoshijun.
Ishikawa's Weibo popularity even far exceeds overseas platforms, which is enough to see that Chinese fans love her quite highly, the number of fans is as high as 675,000, and she always conveys full of positive energy to the majority of fans all the time, and the Weibo content is relaxed and lively, funny and humorous.
Not long ago, Ishikawa Yoshijun also posted her New Year photos on social accounts, in which she was dressed in a yellow kimono, dignified, gentle and virtuous, beautiful and moving.
Although she is already twenty-nine years old, she still has the same eyebrows as ever, and her appearance is not lost to Ai Fukuhara, who is called a "porcelain doll" by Chinese netizens, and more netizens joked that Ishikawa Yoshizumi wearing a kimono is really much better looking than Ito Mimachi.
Mine Ito (left), Yoshiaki Ishikawa (right)
It is worth mentioning that Ishikawa Yoshijun was at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in the United States, she swept her opponents in a cheerful mood and was also interviewed on the spot after the game.
However, when the host asked questions in English, the volunteers on the scene directly translated the English into Chinese.
In this regard, Ishikawa Yoshinori also directly replied with Chinese atmosphere:
"Today's mentality is better, and I didn't expect that I would play so well today, so I am very happy, thank you."
On such a grand occasion, Ishikawa Yoshijun, who is Japanese, used Chinese to answer the question, and the Chinese fans on the scene applauded thunderously after hearing it, and the atmosphere instantly reached a climax.
With dreams in mind and firm faith, we choose to persevere bitterly, and finally live up to the wait!
At the end of the 2021 All Japan Championship, Ishikawa Yoshinori won the gold championship in a big reversal, relying on her perseverance mentality.
After five years, she finally won the All Japan Championship for the fifth time
Sonorously and forcefully refutes the "Ishikawa has not been able to do it in recent years" and so on.
After winning the championship, Ishikawa Yoshijun also rushed to the Chinese coach, Coach Qiu Jianxin, embracing warmly, full of tears and excitement.
Although Ishikawa Yoshizumi has not been married to Aiku Fukuhara, who has "followed the customs" in China, she can also be said to be very diligent and hardworking, and she personally likes Chinese culture very much.
Nowadays, she is basically in a state of fluent answers to interviews, speaks Mandarin very standardly, and communicates with mainland players and coaches without pressure.
In an interview, the Chinese media joked with her:
"Can you please not answer with Chinese every time, talk about Japanese, our translators are almost unemployed"
Many Chinese fans are also very much looking forward to Ishikawa Yoshijun can marry into China, and she herself has said that she also likes Chinese men, if Malone did not have a heart before, Presumably has been taken down by Ishikawa Yoshizumi!
Recalling the recent divorce incident of Ai Fukuhara, the captain still very sincerely hopes that Ishikawa Yoshijun will find Ruyi Langjun.
She believes that with such a lively and cheerful personality, she will eventually have lovers and become dependents!
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