The 2022 Japan Table Tennis Championships Men's Singles Quarterfinals saw three weak wins, the biggest surprise of which came from defending champion Mizuki Kawa, who lost 2-4 (3-11/8-11/15-13/9-11/12-10/7-11) to Yoshiyama. In addition, the former champions of the major tournament were also eliminated, namely Yukiya Utada 1-4 (8-11/11-3/10-12/9-11/16-18) lost to Yoshida Kaidou, and Konishi Kaiwei lost 0-4 (3-11/7-11/5-11/5-11/5-11) to Hitoshi Ueda.
In the men's singles competition of the 2021 Japan Table Tennis Championships, Rizuki Kawakawa eliminated many main players of the Japanese men's team such as Zhang Benzhihe and Masataka Morien, and sat on the throne of the men's singles championship with a dark horse posture, while in the subsequent series of competitions, he was unknown, and finally failed to reach Houston and lost the lineup of the World Table Tennis Championships. This year's Japan Championship, with the aura of the defending champion on his head, and Kawa Ruiji failed to break into the top 8, facing the challenge of the average strength of Yoshiyama, only to bite the final victory in the 3rd and 5th sets, and fell behind in the remaining 4 sets, without seeing any hope of reversal, and finally swallowed out.
2020 men's singles champion Yukiya Utada also unfortunately fell, the opponent is also a young Yoshida Haidou, the result in the first 2 innings of the balance, the last 3 innings of each set lost the last 2 points, a pity to lose, but also proved that the key points are not as good as the opponent to fight. Yukiya Utada, as the best of the young Japanese players in addition to Zhang Benzhihe, has been cultivated by the Japanese table tennis, but unfortunately he has achieved no achievements in the World Table Tennis Championships and WTT events, not only can not play with the national table tennis players, even the Second-rate Players in Europe are difficult to defeat, and have not been able to become the real main force. Houston World Table Tennis Championships Japan men's singles in the first three rounds of the total annihilation, sent out Yukiya Utada, Tokami Hayabusa and other young players simply can not support the Japanese table tennis sky, as Mizutani Hayabusa, Niwa Takashi gradually faded out of the national team because of the big, may not be able to produce another Zhang BenZhihe among young players.
The 2005 Japan Table Tennis Championships men's singles champion Konishi Haiwei did not escape the fate of being eliminated, he was once a player in the Hebei table tennis team, and then was naturalized to the Japanese men's team, and gradually became a member of the Japanese table tennis team. As a straight board player, Konishi Haiwei is older, the pace and speed are gradually a little slow, and he was swept by Hitoshi Ueda, which is indeed somewhat unexpected, after all, Konishi Haiwei as the main team of the Japanese team in the 2008 and 2010 World Championships also won two third places, and the Japanese men's team was also one of the absolute main forces at that time, and it was indeed unforgiving!
In another quarter-final, Japan's young player Shinjo also played well, easily defeating Yuki Matsuyama to reach the men's singles quarterfinals with a 4-0 (11-3/11-7/11-5/11-5). Judging from the results of these 4 matches, the young generation of Japanese table tennis generally has a common problem of unstable play, Yukiya Una, Kawa Ryukichi, Toue Hayabusa and other players are the hope of the Japanese team, but they have not achieved real transformation, they are not competitive in the international arena, even in the Japanese team, they do not reflect the ability to be superior, this competition is out of the round of 8 early, continue like this, I am afraid that the Japanese Table Tennis Association will implement the generation training, cut off this group of players, and use the baby soldiers to compete in the international arena.