On the afternoon of April 9, Beijing time, women's table tennis world champion Ishikawa Yoshijun came bad news - in the Japanese Team's Asian Games singles selection, she suffered two consecutive defeats, and lost to Miyu Hirano and Hitomi Sato.
According to the regulations of the Japan Table Tennis Association, the athletes who rank first in the group are eligible to qualify for the main competition, and each group has only 4 players, up to 3 matches, at present, Hitomi Sato has won 2 consecutive wins, so Yoshijun Ishikawa, who has lost 2 consecutive games, has been out of the game in advance, following the defeat of the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, and did not qualify for the Hangzhou Asian Games singles, it is really tragic!
Ishikawa Yoshijun is very familiar with everyone, the old opponent of national table tennis, the main Olympic force of the Japanese team, but also won the mixed doubles gold medal of the World Table Tennis Championships, Gu I Nooya, but in recent years, the state has been declining, at the beginning of this year, he was selected as the list of the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, and did not expect that the Asian Games were hit again.
This Asian Games selection, Ishikawa Yoshinori luck is still OK, the group stage avoided Ito Mimako, with Hirano Miyu, Hitomi Sato, Minami Yurika Minamiwa into a group, it is reasonable to say that there should be a chance to qualify.
However, in the first game, facing Hirano Miyu, who was also in poor form in recent years and also lost the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, Ishikawa Yoshijun lost a lot of money as soon as he came up, not only was the big score 0-4 fiasco swept away, but also the fourth set was also bombarded by the other side with a 0-8 score, which was indeed in poor shape.
More than an hour later, Ishikawa Yoshinori met the chipper Hitomi Sato, and after 6 rounds of vicious fighting between the two sides, Ishikawa Yoshinori lost 2-4, and the last set was also beaten to the point of not being able to raise his head, and there was no way to fight back.
At present, it seems that the 29-year-old Ishikawa Yoshijun has inevitably reached a period of rapid decline in her career, and the competition of the Japanese women's team is extremely cruel, so now she is not to say that she is keeping the position of the top three main players, that is, the top five is also difficult to maintain, after all, this World Table Tennis Championships has been kicked out.
Ishikawa will also have a final showdown with Yurika Minami, but winning or losing will not change the fact that she lost. So will the veteran still have a chance to return to the big stage? Let's wait and see!