On January 27, 2022, the International Table Tennis Federation announced that The Japanese table tennis star Ai Fukuhara will serve as the general manager of WTT Japan, she is also the first general manager of Japan, Japan is one of the important markets of table tennis in the world, I hope that Ai Fukuhara will make achievements in her new position and contribute to the development of table tennis in the world, everyone is very confident in her personal ability.
The decision was made through a meeting of the Itttennis Federation, with Liu Guoliang, head of the national table tennis federation, and Steve, the chief executive of the International Table Tennis Federation. Denton believes that Ai Fukuhara is the most suitable candidate, she has this ability, the popularity is also very high, the main responsibility is to create the main board of the event for WTT, promote sponsorship and investment, support the development of table tennis, and communicate and negotiate with the Japan Table Tennis Association.
Ai Fukuhara is very familiar to everyone, in the athlete period has participated in the Olympic Games four times, won a silver and a bronze two team medals, after retiring active in the background, continue to promote table tennis, continue to work hard for the development of this sport, in the eyes of the International Table Tennis Federation, should provide a bigger stage for Ai Fukuhara, let her use her influence to do more things, this is the best thing.
According to the International Table Tennis Federation, Japan is now the world's second largest table tennis market, second only to China, showing great potential, a number of Japanese players ranked in the world's top ten, related competition ratings are very high, Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa is even more olympic gold medal, so it does need a person, in the official and the Japan Table Tennis Association to contact, everyone first thinks of Ai Fukuhara, she is the most suitable.
After the news was announced, Ai Fukuhara first posted a response, saying that he wanted to strive to do better, felt very honored, promised to do his best for the development of world table tennis in the future, and also hoped that we could build the world's top table tennis environment for players, hoping that more and more table tennis fans and fans, and finally thank everyone for their trust in themselves, I will cheer.
Liu Guoliang plays an important role in this, if it is not his support, whether Fukuhara Ai can get this position is really difficult to say, Fukuhara Ai also thanked, in the future everyone is a colleague, to work together for the development of table tennis to contribute.
Just this year, WTT Macau Tournament was held again, Wang Chuqin, Wang Manyu won the singles championship, Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen mixed doubles won the championship, by the outside fans attention and hot discussion, I believe that fukuhara ai as the general manager of Japan, there will be more competitions in the future, we have reason to believe that under the impetus of Liu Guoliang, Fukuhara Ai and others, this sport will be able to develop better and better, come on!