On January 24, Beijing time, the Macau Championships in China have just ended, and the table tennis competitions are non-stop, and today the Japan National Table Tennis Championships officially kicked off. The Japan National Championships will be held from January 24 to 30. This year's Japan Championships, there are men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, mixed doubles, and youth groups of men's and women's singles, a total of 7 events, as many as 972 people participated.
It is worth mentioning that this year's Japan Championships Japanese Olympic champion Ito Mimachi participated, and the Japanese Championships as many as 4 world champions participated, namely Ito Mimachi, Ishikawa Yoshinori, Hirano Miyu, Yoshimura Maharu. In addition, there are Also Japanese celebrities such as Tomokazu Changmoto, Takashi Niwa, Reiki Kawa, Hina Hayata, and Miyu Kihara.
Japan's main players Zhang Benzhihe, Hayata Hina and others are all three-front combatants. Tomokazu Jang not only competes in the men's singles competition, but also partners Masataka Morien in the men's doubles competition and partner Hina Hayata in the mixed doubles competition. In the just-concluded World Table Tennis Championships, the mixed doubles combination of Zhang Benzhi and Hayata Xina successfully advanced to the final, and finally lost to the national table tennis player Wang Chuqin Sun Yingsha, and won the runner-up of the World Table Tennis Championships.
In the men's singles of the Japan Championships, Zhang Benzhi has not won the championship for three years, losing to Yuya Oshima, Yukiya Utada, and Mizuki Kawa. In the absence of hayabusa Mizutani, veteran of this year's Japan Championships, Zhang Benzhihe is still a big favorite to win the championship. However, there are many uncertainties in the team game, and Zhang Benzhihe's state also fluctuates greatly, and whether he can successfully win the championship depends on the on-the-spot performance.
In the last Japan National Championships, Mizuki Kawa won the men's singles championship and Ishikawa Yoshinori won the women's singles championship. This year, with the addition of Ito Ando and the gradual rise of Hina Hayata, women's unilateral competition is very large. At present, the specific schedule of the Japan National Championship has been released, and on the first match day, Tomokazu Zhang, Mimachi Ito and others will not appear.
Tomorrow, the 25th, Zhang Benzhi and his partner Hina Hayata will make their debut against their opponentSoku Izumo/Chiba Naotsu. In the men's singles, Zhang Benzhi and the first round of the opponent Takagi and Zhuo, the same district also has world champions Yoshimura Maharu, Tanaka Yuji and others, but Zhang Benzhi and normal play, it is not difficult to advance to the men's singles final four. The semi-finals are expected to play against the defending champions and Chuan Ruiji.