The 2022 Japan Championships Women's Singles Quarterfinals staged a veteran-rookie showdown, while also an appreciative attacking battle, and finally the 17-year-old talented girl Miyu Kihara lost 3 sets to make it 4-3 (
13-15/8-11/8-11/13-11/11-9/13-11/11-6) reversed the defeat of the sharpshooter Hitomi Sato, following 2019 to reach the semifinals again, the next opponent will be a remake of the 2019 women's singles final, Ito Once again became the biggest opponent of the youngsters to impact the women's singles championship.
Hitomi Sato as a veteran of the ball cutting, this competition has a second spring, facing the main force Hirano Miyu who participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, she also did not want to show weakness to defeat the opponent 4-1, 1/4 final against 17-year-old Miyu Kihara, Hitomi Sato also reflected the stability as always in the opening game, adopted a strategy based on turning and not turning steady, allowing the other party to exhaust every possible means, her self-oriented play. Miyu Kihara still owes some in the attack power of the forehand, facing 2 innings in the 1st set but failed to win, and finally lost 2 points, the next 2 innings were in a hurry, the attack appeared to be too many mistakes, and soon lost the game.
Originally thought that Kihara Miyu would be defeated by Hitomi Sato 4-0, the result of the 4th round will not easily give up Kihara Miyu in the score entangled in the end, actually magically won, the subsequent 3 innings Kihara Miyu seems to find a tactic to deal with Sato Hitomi, first reduce their own mistakes, in the case of bad opportunities, the use of backhand raw glue transition, the opportunity to pull the ball with the forehand also have to play one by one, and finally rained over the sky, even wrench 4 rounds to eliminate Hitomi Sato out of the game, It did not allow Hirano's defeat to repeat the same mistakes on Kihara Miyu.
In the semi-finals, Miyu Kihara vs. Mimachi Ito, which is also a copy of the 2019 final, in that women's singles final, Ito Mimachi defeated Miyu Kihara 4-1 to win the women's singles championship, and this time in the battle for the right to the final, Ito Miyu is 4 years older than Miyu Kihara, and has a championship background, but it does not mean that she can definitely fight and win, from the front of this tournament, everything is possible, both are backhand glue, the type of play may be more fierce in the first three boards.
The other semi-finals are played against Hina Hayata and Miyu Kato, although Hina Hayata won the Asian Championship women's singles title in 2021 and had two doubles runners in hand at the World Championships, but the last place in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships Pass was Miyu Kato's 4-3 victory over Hayata Hina, stealing the opponent's qualification for that World Championship. This time the two played out again, the victory or defeat is still uncertain, Kato Miyu has an advantage in serving, and Hayata Hina's stalemate is a specialty.
In general, the women's singles of this Japan Championship, in addition to Hitomi Sato is a veteran, all are young players after 00, and there are two young players under 20 years old, Nagasaki Miyu and Kihara Miyu, who are less than 20 years old, the team continues the tendency of young player training in the past, after Ishikawa Yoshinori and Hirano Miyu lost the care of the Table Tennis Association, I am afraid that in the 2022 World Table Tennis Championships and Asian Games, there will be more young players to represent the Japanese team with Ito Mimachi.