On October 21, 2021, Japan's Ito, the number one opponent of national table tennis, celebrated his 21st birthday.
Just a few months ago, Ito Mishimasa and her brother Mizutani Hayabusa defeated Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen at the Tokyo Olympics to win the mixed doubles event; and next month she will challenge the Chinese team to attack the national table tennis in the women's singles and women's doubles events, and has recently been closed, just waiting to go to the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in the United States to "amplify the move".
So can she succeed?
Born in 2000, Ito is the toughest opponent the national table tennis team has encountered in recent years, beating the Grand Slam Ding Ning at the age of 15 and then competing in the Rio Olympics. At the age of 17, she defeated Liu Shiwen and won a valuable point for the Japanese team at the World Table Tennis Championships.
In the following two years, Ito Mimachi broke through all the main players of national table tennis except Chen Meng, including Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong, and even created an 11-0 sweep of Ding Ning, which shocked countless Chinese fans, so the former national table tennis team table tennis in Tokyo listed it as the only "first group" opponent in the women's singles event.
At the Olympic Games, Ito was also the best performer in the entire foreign association, winning the championship in mixed doubles, the women's team won the second place, the women's singles won the third place, and the gold, silver and bronze medals were collected at one time (but she was already the third place in the women's team at the Rio Olympics): a girl under 21 years old can do this, there are indeed two brushes!
But it is obvious that the three main players of the new rise of national table tennis, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, are currently no longer afraid of Ito Mishimasa, and when Mizutani Hayabusa announced his retirement from the Japanese national team, Ito Mishimachi also focused his career on women's singles and women's doubles, and this year's World Table Tennis Championships also completely abandoned mixed doubles and specialized in the other two.
After the Olympic Games, Ito once again declined the invitation to the T League in Japan, and also gave up the second WTT Star Challenge and the Asian Championship, completely closed, and focused on the preparation for the World Table Tennis Championships, and this scene also made people feel familiar .
Before the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Ito also gave up the opportunity to participate in the T League with a high salary and concentrated on preparing for the Olympic Games, and now she is repeating the same trick, which is indeed ambitious!
According to the registration arrangement of the Japanese team, the women's singles will not be repeated, and the women's doubles Ito Mimachi is working with her old partner, the 3 champions of the Xinkeya Championship - Hayata Shina, once again. In the last World Table Tennis Championships, Ito Mimachi / Hayata Hina almost overthrew the national table tennis world champion group Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, just one step away from the gold medal.
In the national championships in Japan, Ito Mimachi / Hayata Hina also won the women's doubles championship for 3 consecutive years, which shows that their strength is indeed very strong, so the national table tennis not only women's singles to beware of Ito, women's doubles must also be prepared to be impacted by her!
How to say it, although Ito Mimachi is our opponent, it is undeniable that because of her existence, table tennis has also received more attention, and the degree of attention inside and outside the circle has been greatly improved, and many people who usually do not watch the ball will also ask from time to time: Is it Ito Mimachi to participate? Did the Chinese team beat her?
Whether you like it or hate it, 21 years old is likely not to be the end of Ito's career, so she will also be "entangled" with the national table tennis for a long time, so let's sit together and wait for the new battle to start, and then cheer for the Chinese team together!