On March 5, the Japan Table Tennis Association announced the chengdu world table tennis championships list. The list surprised the outside world, and the gap with the Olympic list is very large, just one year, Japanese table tennis has completed the replacement of old and new, the wolf is coming again.
Japan women's table tennis list
The Japanese women's table tennis list is: Ito Mimachi, Hayata Hina, Kihara Miyu, Hitomi Sato, and Miyu Nagasaki.
Japanese women's table tennis has been the biggest opponent of national table tennis in the past decade, and they have been constantly emerging in recent years, and the replacement is also very fast. Ai Fukuhara in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 cycles, Ito Mimakoto, Yoshinori Ishikawa, Miyu Hirano in the 2020 cycle, and now Hina Hayata are the biggest opponents of national table tennis.
The three main players in Japan at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games are Ito Yoshimachi, Ishikawa Yoshinori and Hirano Miyu, and the strength of the three of them is still superb in Japan. However, in just one year, in the women's singles quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships Trials in Japan on March 6, 2022, Ito Mimachi, Hirano Miyu and Ishikawa Yoshinori did not reach the final four, which was a big surprise. This also reflects from the side that the Japanese women's table tennis has made great progress, and the advantages of the three main forces in Japan are no longer there.
Quarterfinal Results:
Nozomi Hayada 4-3 Ishikawa Yoshiaki;
The rule of Japanese table tennis is that the final four directly win the team competition, and the other belongs to the Japanese National Championship women's singles champion Ito Mimako. Completely dependent on strength, no matter what achievements you have achieved in the past, you can't play in the competition now, and you can't qualify. The advantage of this mechanism is that it is also an incentive for famous athletes, who have to constantly improve and continue to improve, which is very fair.
Japanese men's table tennis list
Tomokazu Jang, Takaki Niwa, Riki Kawa, Seitsu Yokotani and Hayabusa Tokami won places in the Men's Table Tennis World Table Tennis Championships. Compared to the women's team, the men's team has fewer accidents.
In the past two years, the performance of the Japanese men's team is not as good as that of the Japanese women's team, and they have seen many fewer newcomers, mainly supported by Zhang Benzhihe and Mizutani Falcon. Due to the retirement of Mizutani Hayabusa, it is mainly Zhang Benzhi and support at present.
Zhang Benzhi and this competition did not drop the chain, the performance is very strong, successfully advanced to the selection of the men's team 4 finalists. The men's singles quarterfinals are as follows:
Tomokazu Kasumoto 4-1 Daito Tsuba;
Japan National Championships men's singles champion Hayabusa Tokami, with which he qualified for the World Table Tennis Championships.
Japan has made great progress in recent years, especially women's table tennis, and there are constantly new people coming out, relying on this selection mechanism. As long as you are good enough to score well in direct confrontation, you have a chance to qualify for the competition. From Miyu Hirano, to Mimako Ito, to today's Hina Hayata, their emergence has also contributed to the progress of Chinese women's table tennis. However, the selection mechanism of the Chinese table tennis team is much more complicated, in addition to the results of the selection competition, the historical record also accounts for a large proportion, which makes many young players lose the opportunity to participate.
Each selection mechanism has its own advantages. The new team of Japanese women's table tennis has emerged, and the new Chinese women's table tennis players are currently better than Kuman, and she will play against a group of Japanese players. The competition between China and Japan women's table tennis in the new cycle has begun, and the first meeting of the year will be at next week's WTT Singapore Grand Slam Tournament, looking forward to their wonderful duel.