The Japan Table Tennis Association will hold the Top 32 tournament on March 5 and 6, with the intention of selecting the lineup for the 2022 Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games, the champion of this competition will win two international competitions, and the Japanese table tennis has announced all the lineups of the men's and women's top 32, the world's ranking of women's singles 3rd Ito Mimachi and men's singles 4th Zhang Benzhihe led, such a selection method changed the way of guaranteeing the main force in the past, to Ishikawa Yoshinori, Hirano Miyu, Niwa Takashi and other players have brought a huge impact.
In the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Japan has used a set of points system for selecting the Olympic Games in the past team, and the most beneficial is the main team members, who have more opportunities to participate in international competitions themselves, and also let the young players lose the possibility of participating in the Olympic Games in the case of a small number of participation opportunities. After the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games in Houston World Table Tennis Championships, The Japanese Table Tennis Stipulates that the main Olympic players directly obtained the qualification for the competition, and as a result, Niwa Takashi, Hirano Miyu and other team members did not get good results, and the stimulation of the young players was not enough, in order to promote healthy competition, the Japan Table Tennis Association also tried to compete for the place of the international competition with the main force and the non-main force through the selection competition.
This competition gathered the best players in Japan to participate, and the 32-strong tournament adopted a single-elimination format, which increased the accident of the upset, and directly stimulated all the team members to come up with the best state to fight, otherwise they may face the danger of being out. However, Kenta Matsudaira, a veteran who played well in the Japanese Championships, did not appear on the list, he was also a main member of the Japanese men's team, and in 2013, at the peak of his career at the World Table Tennis Championships, it seems that Kenta Matsudaira has decided to withdraw from the national team. In addition, the Chinese player Song Huijia did not appear in the list, perhaps because of nationality, even if she won the final championship, she could not represent the Japanese team in international competitions.
Before the Round of 32, according to the regulations of the Japan Table Tennis Association this year, Tokami Hayabusa and Ito, who won the men's and women's singles championships of the Japan Championships, have qualified for the World Table Tennis Championships and the Asian Games, but the two still appear in the top 32 list, because according to the regulations, not only will the candidates for the World Table Tennis Championships and the Asian Games be selected, but also the corresponding Paris Olympic Games selection points, for the Paris Olympic Games, all the players will go all out to compete for the qualification to represent Japan!
Zhang Benzhi, who did not play well in the Japanese championship, participated as the No. 1 seed this time, but the main players of the Japanese men's team often had abnormal performances in various competitions, Zhang Benzhihe, Toue Hayabusa, and Kawa Reiki, Yukiya Umada all had the results of winning the men's singles championship in the Japanese championship, but it was difficult to guarantee that the next competition could play at the same level, so Zhang Benzhi and the strongest strength could not guarantee that this competition would be able to win the championship naturally.
Ito is still the number one player in the Japanese women's team, and it is not surprising if she wants to win the championship again, but in the case of having already qualified for the World Table Tennis Championships and the Asian Games, if she wins the championship, I don't know if the runner-up will qualify for an international competition. Those who can compete with Mimachi Ito include Yoshijun Ishikawa, Hina Hayata, Miyu Nagasaki and Miyu Kihara.
Through this tournament may be a major reshuffle of the Japanese table tennis team, veterans Takashi Niwa, Yoshizumi Ishikawa and Miyu Hirano, if they are not in good shape, they may be overtaken by young players and gradually withdraw from the main lineup.