On March 5, Japan Table Tennis, a national table tennis rival, took the lead in announcing the participation list for this year's Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships, and the men's team, led by Zhang Benzhihe, included all-day men's singles champions Hayasuke Tokami, Takashi Niwa, Riki Kawa, and Seiki Yokotani; on the women's team, Tokyo Olympic champion Ito Mimachi led Hayata Hina, Nagasaki Miyu, Kihara Miyu, and Hitomi Sato. However, in the women's team roster, the two world champions, Ishikawa Yoshinori and Hirano Miyu, were not seen, because they lost in the selection competition and regrettably lost.
The Chengdu Team World Table Tennis Championships were originally scheduled to be held in April this year, but for various reasons, the official announcement of the postponement was not long ago, which will be held from September 30 to the National Day this year. Therefore, for all participating teams, there can be 5 more time to continue to prepare. Compared with the national table tennis team that has not yet announced the plan to participate in the big list, the Japanese table tennis team has completed the internal selection early. In addition to the qualification of athletes who won the men's and women's singles championships at the All Japan Championships, the top four players will make up the final five-man roster through the domestic selection competition.
At the All Japan Championships earlier this year, Hayabusa Tokami won the men's singles title and Ito Mimachi won the women's singles title, and the two locked in two World Table Tennis Championships places in advance. In the selection tournament held this week, in the men's singles, Zhang Benzhihe, Niwa Takashi, Kawa Ruiji and Yokotani Sheng successfully advanced to the final four, so they also won the remaining four World Table Tennis Championships places. On the women's side, Hina Hayata, Miyu Nagasaki, Miyu Kihara and Hitomi Sato locked up the top 4 places and successfully won the other 4 women's group places.
After the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Japanese table tennis team also began to alternate between the old and the new, including Mizutani Hayabusa, Yoshimura Makoto and other Olympic champions, world champions have left the national team, and even retired. Veterans like Ishikawa Yoshinori have also been impacted by young players, and in this selection competition, ishikawa Yoshinori and Hirano Miyu, two world champions, also had accidents, one failed to pass the test of the selection competition, regrettably out, one was absent because of the epidemic, so he could only accept the cruel reality of not being able to win the World Table Tennis Championships.
Judging from the team world table tennis championships roster of the Japanese table tennis team, the overall strength has indeed dropped a lot compared with before, so for the national table tennis team that fights locally, the threat of the opponent who competes for the championship may be smaller. The time for the national table tennis to announce the big list of the World Table Tennis Championships is probably still a while, after all, there is a certain time to investigate and select the team members after the postponement. However, it is certain that several main players such as Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin, Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and so on have basically locked the big list in advance, and the remaining seats will be given to other team members and young players, through a series of international competitions and selection competitions, will be known.