The Japan Table Tennis Association held a special 8-round selection tournament for the second singles qualification of the Hangzhou Asian Games, and the participating players will be 2-8 winners of the Lion King Cup that ended last month, plus a recommended place, and Zhang Benzhi and Hayata Xina, who won the Lion King Cup, won the first qualification to participate in the Asian Games singles. What is more unexpected is that Yukiya Utada, who has just reached the men's singles top 4 in the Singapore Grand Slam arena, actually did not have the opportunity to participate, perhaps the results of the Lion King Cup are not ideal, but the recommended quota does not have his name, so he lost the Japanese lineup of the Hangzhou Asian Games, which also makes the number one opponent of the Asian Games men's line lose the main force, and then take what secret weapons and national table tennis!
The eight players in the Asian Games Men's Singles Selection Tournament are Riki Kazukawa, Daiden Shiozuka, Daimon Arien, ShōSō Tsone, Sōya Yokotani, Daisei Matsushita, Masaharu Yoshimura and Hayabusa Tokami, the last three of whom are recommended to qualify. Veterans Takashi Niwa and Hitoshi Ueda voluntarily withdrew from the competition, giving up 2 seats, making the original 1 recommended place into 3.
Coming to the Paris Olympic cycle, the Japanese men's team is also quietly changing blood, Tokyo Olympic champion veteran Mizutani Hayabusa completely bid farewell to the table tennis world, and another veteran, Niwa Takashi, is also somewhat retreating because of repeated defeats. Niwa Takashi as early as the 2009 Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships into the men's singles round of 16, his height is relatively short, accustomed to the speed of playing near taiwan, and now in the world table tennis singles performance has been difficult to enter the top 8, repeatedly fell in the first or second round or even the qualifiers, Niwa Takashi is facing the full impact of the younger generation, withdrawing from the Main Japanese lineup is only a matter of time.
The leader of the Japanese men's team, Tomokazu Zhang Ben, is still the strongest overall men's singles player, although he has been in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and Singapore Grand Slam consecutively, but the threat is still there, compared with the young Tokami Hayabusa and Kawazuki, two domestic champions, the external record is significantly better. Zhang Benzhihe also locked in the qualifications of the Asian Games men's team and men's singles with the results of the Lion King Cup, and his mixed doubles with Hayata Hina will basically become one of the biggest rivals of national table tennis, after all, Hayata Hina also qualified for the Asian Games singles.
More unexpected is the defeat of Yukiya Utada, who defeated world champion Bohr, South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon and Germany's main player Qiu Dang in the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, although each game is a difficult victory, but it can be seen that the young post-00s have improved rapidly, losing 2-4 to Fan Zhendong after reaching the top 4, which also creates a great threat to the main force of national table tennis. It should be said that the recent Japanese men's team Utada Yukiya is in the best state, but unfortunately even the qualification for the Asian Games selection tournament has not been touched, and it was determined early that it was not eligible for the Hangzhou Asian Games.
In the case of Yukiya Utada not participating in the Asian Games, the threat of Japanese boy bands, men's singles and men's doubles to the national table tennis has been greatly reduced, and even if you want to win the card, you need luck. Among the 8 players participating in the Asian Games selection competition, the japanese champion and Kawa Ryaki and Toue Hayabusa are the strongest, the doubles world No. 1 Toue Hayabusa may stand out, and the world champion Makoto Yoshimura is also among the participants, but his status is obviously declining and he lacks competitiveness. Regardless of whether Itami Hayabusa or Kazukawa Reiki even has the probability of a dark horse qualifying, they cannot pose a threat against the national table tennis players, they are just "fighting in the nest" in Japan, and basically stop in the first 2 rounds of the international arena.