The 2022 Japan Table Tennis National Championships are in full swing, and on January 28, the top 8 lists of men's and women's singles were all born, and it is very surprising that 3 of the 5 olympic main players, and 3 athletes who have won the national championship singles championship - Zhang Benzhihe, Ishikawa Yoshinori, and Hirano Miyu have all been eliminated.
In addition, the 2020, 2021 men's singles national champion Yukiya Utada, and Kawa Reiki have also been out, this situation is really unexpected, as for The words of Takashi Niwa, Mimachi Ito, Hina Hayata and others have successfully obtained the promotion, I have to say that this year's Japanese table tennis championship competition is too fierce, the island country's "inner volume" situation seems to be no less than the national table tennis ah!
See below for details.
1. Men's Singles
In the men's singles, Zhang Benzhihe's exit is undoubtedly the most surprising, because his opponent is Makoto Yoshimura, who has won the world championship but is only in doubles and has long been out of the main ranks of the Japanese national team in recent years, and the result is that Zhang Benzhihe lost 2-4.
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Benzhihe has missed the men's singles gold medal in the National Championships for 4 consecutive years, having previously lost to Yuya Oshima (the last champion Hayabusa Mizutani) in 2019, losing to the later champion Yukiya Utada in 2020, losing to the later champion and Kawa Ruiji in 2021, and falling in the round of 16 this year, which is really tragic!
However, as mentioned earlier, the situation of Yukiya Umada and Reiki Kawa is also not ideal, the two of them played one less round than Zhang Benzhihe this year, including Yukiya Utada losing 1-4 to the unknown Yoshida Kaidou, and Kawa reiki 2-4 defeat to the previously unknown Yoshiyama Ichiichi (the junior men's singles champion of this competition), which was a big surprise.
At present, the specific list of the men's singles final eight is: Yoshiyama Kenichi, Matsudaira Kenta, Yoshimura Makoto, Matsushita Daisei, Masaki Yoshida, Takashi Niwa, Hitoshi Ueda, Hayabusa Toue - Kenta Matsudaira, Maharu Yoshimura, Takashi Niwa are the more famous players in the Japanese table tennis foreign war, Toue Hayabusa is a famous civil war master, I don't know if they can advance to the final semifinals.
2. Women's Singles
The Competition of the Japanese women's team is far stronger than that of men's table tennis, and this year's competition is no exception. Among them, world champions Ishikawa Yoshinori and Hirano Miyu are all in the round of 16 positions like Zhang Benzhihe, the former is 1-4 to Miyu Kato, the latter is also 1-4 defeat to chipper Hitomi Sato, but Ito Mimachi and Hayata Hina have not dropped the chain for the time being, and have all won the top 8.
The specific list of the current women's singles final eight is: Miyu Kato, Sazuki Ohto, Miyu Nagasaki, Hina Hayata, Miyu Kihara, Hitomi Sato, Hikaru Kimura, Mimako Ito , Mimako Ito , Mimako Ito, Hina Hayata is the most powerful athlete to compete for the gold medal in women's singles, and Ito also defeated Hayata last year, and this year has another way to soar and win a big victory, with a great tendency to regain the gold medal.
As we all know, in recent years, Japan's table tennis industry has developed very fast, and it has won the world championship many times, which has also created a greater threat to the Chinese team, which is impressive.
But behind the scenery of the core players of the national team, we must also see the suppression of the reserve forces of Japanese table tennis: many athletes actually have the level of impacting the main force, but the results of the foreign war are not ideal, and as a result, they will focus on the civil war, which also makes the Japanese table tennis championships often burst out of the super cold.
So who can win this year's National Singles Championship in Japanese Table Tennis? The answer will be revealed soon, so let's wait and see!