On January 30, Beijing time, bad news came out of the table tennis arena again! Following the diagnosis of new crown by world champion Miyu Hirano and men's table tennis star Yuya Oshima, another Japanese star and former world number one in women's doubles, Miyu Kihara, has officially announced her withdrawal from the women's singles semifinals of the Japan Table Tennis Championships due to a fever of more than 38 degrees.
Due to Miyo Kihara's retirement, her opponent Mimachi Ito won without a fight and advanced to the final, and is about to launch an attack on her third women's singles gold medal and the second championship of the new year: it is really unpredictable!
Born in 2004, Miyu Kihara is a full Olympic cycle younger than Ito, Hirano and Hina Hayata, and is the star of hope in Japanese women's table tennis, at the age of 14, she defeated Miyu Hirano and reached the women's singles final of the National Championships (losing to Ito Mimachi), and later in the women's doubles field, defeating chinese and Japanese masters with Nagasaki Miyu, ranking first in the world.
In this year's championships, Miyu Kihara is in very good shape, first sweeping Zhang Benmihe (Zhang Benzhihe's sister) and others in the women's singles competition of the junior group to win the championship, and then reaching the semi-finals in the women's singles competition of the regular group, about to impact Ito Mimachi again, and as a result, he was knocked down by a fever before he could play.
As mentioned earlier, there have been two cases of infection in this championship, namely Hirano Miyu and Yuya Oshima, which also made the two have to give up the semi-final competition in women's doubles and men's doubles. Before that, Kenta Matsudaira, the former japanese table tennis national team, and the world champion Makoto Yoshimura were also diagnosed, but fortunately they were all cured later.
Today, we are not very clear about the situation of Miyo Kihara, and the current reports in the Japanese media are only fever, so it is not excluded that it is for other reasons. But given the current situation, there is no reason not to worry that she has also been "recruited".
It is worth mentioning that Ito Washo was supposed to face Miyu Hirano / Yoshinori Ishikawa in the women's doubles semifinals, and Hirano withdrew; this time he should face Miyu Kihara in the semifinals of women's singles, and As a result, Miyu Kihara also withdrew. It seems that the situation on the field of play is really unpredictable, which makes people sigh.
So can Ito, who has been "guaranteed" to advance to the finals in a row, win two championships? Let's sit back and wait for the latest war report to come back!