On January 30, the 2022 All Japan Table Tennis Championships entered the final day of competition, and the most important men's and women's singles champions were decided on the same day. In the semi-finals, because of the high fever of opponent Miyo Kihara, she directly advanced to the final without a fight, and finally faced the women's doubles partner Hayata Hina, Ito Mimako showed dominance, won 4-1, won the women's singles championship again after 3 years, and was also the second championship of the tournament after the women's doubles. In the men's singles competition, Hayabusa Tokami played the dark horse final, swept Takashi Niwa 4-0 in the semi-final, and defeated Kenta Matsudaira 4-2 in the final to win the men's singles championship for the first time, also becoming the double champion of this competition.
In the previous doubles match, Ito Yoshimachi partnered with Hina Hayata and won the women's doubles title, while Hina Hayata also won the mixed doubles title with Zhang Benzhi and his partner in the mixed doubles competition. With yesterday's single-event final four decision, Hayata Shina entered the final four and is expected to continue to impact the honor of the triple crown of the single competition. In addition, due to the impact of the epidemic, Hirano Miyu and Oshima Yuya were diagnosed, so they regrettably withdrew from the competition, and also affected their partners Ishikawa Yoshijun, Tian Tim Kenta and others. Today's women's singles finalist Miyu Kihara also retired from the competition because of a high fever, and won without a fight to complete Ito Mimachi and directly advanced to the final.
In the men's and women's singles semifinals that took the lead today, the only semi-final of the women's singles, Hayata Hina played against Miyu Kato, and as a result, Hayata Shina launched a strong counterattack after falling behind 1-3, winning three consecutive sets, and finally completed the turnaround 4-3, the innings were divided into: 7-11, 11-7, 6-11, 13-15, 11-9, 18-16, 11-7. In the men's singles two semi-finals, Kenta Matsudaira played against Makoto Yoshimura, and the result was that the two were also fiercely fighting until the decider to divide the winner, Matsudaira Kenta won 4-3, the innings were divided into 11-9, 12-10, 6-11, 12-14, 11-8, 9-11, 11-3. Hayabusa Tokami faced Olympian Takashi Niwa, and won a domineering victory, dropping four straight sets to complete a 4-0 sweep, divided into 11-7, 11-4, 11-9, 11-5.
In the final final, Ito and Hina Hayata changed from partners to opponents, the two competed for the women's singles championship, the result was Ito Mimachi showed steady comprehensive strength, the next three sets began, and then although he lost a set, he ended the battle in the fifth set, won the total score 4-1, and won the women's singles championship again after three years, with a score of 11-5, 11-9, 11-5, 8-11, 11-6. In the men's singles final, Hayabusa Tokami continued to play the role of the big dark horse, facing Kenta Matsudaira, he once again played a gorgeous game, 4-2 to win a gold-laden victory, won his first all-Japan men's singles championship, the innings were divided into 11-9, 10-12, 11-7, 8-11, 11-6, 11-6. It was also Hayabusa Tokami's second individual title in a single tournament, after he teamed up with Yukiya Utada to win the men's doubles title.