Recently, the Japanese table tennis star announced that he will hold a formal retirement ceremony, which is set for February 27, after which Japanese fans will no longer be able to see Mizutani Falcon compete in the table tennis arena.
The retirement of Mizutani Hayabusa has led to the Japanese men's team becoming weaker, fans have analyzed that the current Japanese table tennis is only Zhang Benzhi and the strength is relatively good, Niwa Takashi playing too Buddhist, it is almost difficult to pick up the Japanese table tennis banner, but it seems that it is difficult to compete in the world arena next to Zhang Benzhihe.
Zhang Benzhihe in the past two years of competition, the play is not bad, in the face of national table tennis can sometimes be two hands, although the ending is not satisfactory for him, but at present Zhang Benzhihe is still young, the growth space is still very sufficient, but the official retirement of Mizutani Falcon will bring him a lot of pressure.
The second thing that is unhappy is Ito Misato, although the current strength of the Japanese table tennis women's team is not bad, at least compared to the men's team, but the retirement of Mizutani Hayabusa directly brushed away the mixed doubles that Ito is best at, some time ago Ito said that he would not participate in mixed doubles competitions in the future, the reason is that Mizutani Hayabusa retired, she can no longer find a good partner with tacit understanding like him, and since then Ito's mixed doubles road has also come to an end.
In this regard, fans have also expressed their reluctance, after all, Mizutani Hayabusa and Ito Mimachi are still very strong, and last year they also defeated the Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen combination at the Tokyo Olympic Games, when they were also blown to the sky by Japanese fans, but there is a saying that their mixed doubles combination is really very strong.
The Japanese media for Mizutani Hayabusa's evaluation is still very high, the poster praised Mizutani Hayabusa as the first person to collect gold, silver and bronze medals in the Olympic Games, Mizutani Falcon won the men's singles bronze medal and the men's team silver medal at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and last year with Ito Mishimasa to win the Olympic mixed doubles gold medal, so that Mizutani Hayabusa is indeed a three-medal winner, but this first person has some far-fetched, but winning the Olympic gold medal is indeed commendable.