When it comes to the strongest enemy of Chinese women's table tennis, many people will invariably say that it is Japan's Ito Mimachi.
Indeed, since the 2018 Team World Table Tennis Championships, Ito has improved very quickly, having defeated Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling, Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha. So far, only Chen Meng has maintained a total victory over Ito Mimakoto.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is the emergence of Ito Mimako that has changed the pattern of Chinese women's table tennis.
If it were not for the threat of Ito Mimachi, I believe that at the Tokyo Olympics, we would not be able to see Sun Yingsha's figure, and even whether Chen Meng could participate in singles is an unknown. I will not see Wang Manyu's figure.
However, due to Liu Shiwen's two consecutive defeats to Ito Mimako, Ding Ning lost 0-4 to Ito At the 2020 Qatar Open, which also changed the pattern of Chinese women's table tennis.
In the end, the Chinese women's table tennis participation in the Olympic singles was Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, and the reason why the two of them were able to qualify for the Olympic singles was not because of their good results, but because the two of them maintained a high winning rate against Ito Mimachi.
With the chinese team's emphasis on Ito Mimachi, it is no longer the momentum of the original, and in the face of Chinese players, it has become a victory!
In fact, since the 2020 Qatar Open, ito has not beaten a Chinese player since it defeated Ding Ning, so far, Ito has not beaten a Chinese player (here we are talking about singles, not considering mixed doubles).
In the Tokyo Olympic Games, as the strongest enemy of Chinese women's table tennis, Ito Mimachi, faced Sun Yingsha, who was the same age as herself, but suffered two defeats, which was a huge blow to Ito.
In fact, Ito, like Sun Yingsha, is also very good at summarizing the gains and losses of the game and finding out the reasons for his loss.
When talking about the Tokyo Olympics' defeat to Sun Yingsha, Ito Also carefully analyzed the reasons for this!
Ito said that in the past with Sun Yingsha, although she would lose, she could always win two or three sets, but in the women's singles semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics, she did not win a single set, and soon lost the game 0-4.
The main reason for this is that she has a lot of mistakes, and on many easier balls, there are many mistakes, which makes Sun Yingsha beat herself easily.
And Sun Yingsha really does not need to think about it in the game, she can easily face the game, and the more she plays, the more relaxed she is. And every point you get has to do your best.
For her own serve and shot, Sun Yingsha almost does not have to think about it, always can accurately predict where I will hit the ball, I feel that Sun Yingsha has mind reading!
At the same time, Ito said that athletes should go all out on the field, take every ball seriously, and when they were in the Tokyo Olympic Games, they did pay full attention, and when they were in the Tokyo Olympic Games, their eyes were still good, their eyes were still quite sharp, and their eyes were wide open. But in the face of Sun Yingsha, she still lost!
At the same time, Ito also talked about the main reason for defeating Liu Shiwen Xu Xin in the mixed doubles, ito Believes that Liu Shiwen Xu Xin played really well in the first two games, and if they can stick to the technical and tactical play, he and Mizutani Hayabusa can not win at all.
But from the third inning, the momentum of himself and Mizutani Falcon came up, and Liu Shiwen Xu Xin's side was quiet, perhaps Liu Shiwen Xu Xin was too nervous, which also gave himself and Mizutani Falcon greater confidence, so he was able to finally defeat Liu Shiwen Xu Xin and win the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Japanese table tennis!
Ito has always regarded Sun Yingsha as the biggest opponent, but in fact, with the Importance the Chinese team attaches to Ito, it is too difficult for Ito to defeat the Chinese players now.
At last year's World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, Ito didn't even come up to Sun Yingsha and lost to another Chinese player, Wang Yidi.
It seems that If Ito wants to achieve good results, he still needs to continue to work hard. And the Chinese women's table tennis will also have greater progress because of an opponent like Ito Mimachi, training harder, there will be greater progress.
I hope that Ito and Chinese women's table tennis can grow together and bring more wonderful games to fans on the national arena, come on!