On the morning of January 29, Beijing time, the men's singles final list of the Japan Table Tennis National Championships was officially released! After three former champions, Tomokazu Jang, Yukiya Umada, and Yuki Kawa, were out of the game, Yuya Oshima, Yukiya Utada, Miyuki Kawakawa and Makoto Yoshimura played out in the semi-finals.
The final result of these two battles is that world champion Masaharu Yoshimura (who eliminated Tomokazu Changmoto) lost 7 sets to former Japanese national team star Kenta Matsudaira, while Tokyo Olympic main player Takashi Niwa lost 0-4 to Hayasuke Tokami, which is really a bit surprising!
Speaking of the men's singles event of the Japanese Table Tennis Championships in recent years, it is indeed fierce competition, among which Zhang Benzhihe became a background board very embarrassingly, originally everyone thought that he could indeed have an absolute supremacy in Japan, and as a result, he lost three consecutive competitions in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, and was defeated by Yuya Oshima, Yukiya Uda, Andrayuki Kawa, Andeki Yoshimura.
At this year's National Championships, Zhang Benzhi and the previous year's men's singles champion Yukiya Utada, last year's men's singles champion and Chuan Ruiji all fell ahead of the quarterfinals. However, to be fair, the four athletes who finally reached the semi-finals are not bad.
Niwa Takashi does not need to be introduced, winning the Olympic main force of Ma Long and Xu Xin, and has also won the men's singles national championship before; Yoshimura Makoto is the mixed doubles champion of the World Table Tennis Championships, winning the world champion Pol and others; Kenta Matsudaira is the star of hope of the Japanese national team, defeating Marlene, Wang Hao, and Xu Xin; Tokami Hayabusa is a Japanese civil war master, who has beaten Zhang Benzhihe, Mizutani Hayabusa, and Niwa Takashi.
As a result, after the two semi-finals, the more famous Niwa Takashi and Yoshimura Masaharu doubled to the sand, the former was swept by Toue Hayabusa 4-0 (11-7, 11-4, 11-9, 11-5), and the latter was a 3-4 defeat to Kenta Matsudaira (9-11, 10-12, 11-6, 14-12, 8-11, 11-9, 3-11), so the men's singles champion will be born between the latter two.
How to say, the result of the semi-finals is not particularly surprising, after all, Matsudaira Kenta's foundation is very good, and Tokami Hayabusa's civil war is indeed very strong. But it is also reasonable to say that it is a cold, after all, compared with the world champion and the main Olympic players, their achievements and popularity are indeed too bad, and it is not easy to meet the final this time.
It seems that the men's singles champion of the 2022 Japanese Table Tennis Championships is about to change the new person to take charge, so who can laugh at the end of the day Kenta Matsudaira and Hayabusa Toue? The answer will be revealed in the afternoon, let's wait and see!