On February 6, Beijing time, the Japanese Table Tennis T League continued, and the world table tennis mixed doubles and women's doubles runner-up winner Hayata Hina once again threatened, following the previous day's 3-0 clean sheet opponent, once again achieved a 3-0 and 1-0 sweep victory, with practical actions to prove that she is still one of the top two figures in Japanese women's table tennis.
Prior to this, Hina Hayata had lost a game in the T-League on February 4, but she did not hide her flaws, and soon she won three consecutive games to regain her strength: in the 2022 season, the latest world no. 6 she is bound to continue to attack more honors, catching up with teammate Ito Mimachi and the main player of the Chinese team!
Hina Hayata is the big winner in the latest edition of the ITTF World Rankings, before the end of January this year, she has never squeezed into the top ten, although she won the women's singles championship of the Japan National Championships, but the ranking is not as good as Hitomi Sato, Miyu Kato and others for a long time, which also made her unable to catch up with Ito, Ishikawa Yoshinori, Hirano Miyu, and the opportunity to participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games.
However, in the 2021 Asian Championships and WTT Challenge, Hayata Shina won a lot of points, and now she has finally reached the 6th position in the world (up 10 places from the previous period), which finally matches her real level.
But under the fame, Hayata Hina also had to face more people's impact, on February 4, not long after receiving the good news of the ranking, she was caught off guard by Oto Shayue, losing 1-3. Fortunately, the next day Hayata Shina stood firm and practiced 3-0 to sweep Kimura Kazumi.
In the Battle of February 6, Hina Hayata met the inferior Yokoi Misaki, and as a result, she was 3-0 and had no way to fight back, and even let the opponent win only 2 points (11-8, 11-2, 11-5) in the second set. In the tiebreaker match that followed, she narrowly defeated the famous player Hashimoto 11-9 in a game to help the Japanese life team laugh at the end with an aggregate score of 3-2.
At this stage, Hayata's main goal is two, one is to overthrow Ito Mimachi in the team's civil war and become the new "first sister" of Japanese women's table tennis; the other is to achieve more good results in international competitions, especially to strive to break through the main defense line of national table tennis again - after all, so far, she has only won liu Shiwen, the main force of the Chinese team.
So are you optimistic that Hina Hayata will replace Ito and become the number one enemy of the Chinese women's table tennis team? Feel free to leave a message and write your own predictions!