At the Asian Games in Japan, the singles selection tournament began, and ito Mimako, who was ranked No. 4 in the world, defeated veteran hashimoto 4-0 in the first match, while Yoshiyuki Kihara, who had just won the Star Challenge Women's Singles and Women's Doubles Championships in Doha, was 4-3 in 7 rounds and beat 2019 World Table Tennis Championships Women's Singles Top 8 player Kato Miyu. Miyu Kihara's women's doubles partner, Miyu Nagasaki, withdrew from the selection tournament due to injury, which means that she will not appear at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, but she will still go to Chengdu, China, after qualifying for the World Table Tennis Championships team competition, and Nagasaki Miyu's qualification will be replaced by Yuri Kaoru Nambo.
With the endless emergence of young players in the Japanese table tennis women's team, the most disappointing in 2022 should be the 3 main players of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Ito Mimako, Ishikawa Yoshinori hirano, Ito Mimachi is unique in the Tokyo Olympic cycle Of the Japanese women's team, basically there is no opponent who can threaten her status, came to the Paris Olympic cycle in the recent Lion King Cup was actually defeated by Nagasaki Miyu, thus losing the first ticket to the Asian Games singles. Ishikawa Yoshizumi hirano miyu even lost the team qualification to participate in this year's Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships.
This competition is intended to select the second singles qualification to represent Japan in the Hangzhou Asian Games, Ito Mimako naturally does not dare to be careless, this is the only way to the Asian Games singles, in the first game, Ito Mimachi faced the 33-year-old slashing veteran Hashimoto Fanoka, played with ease, although the fourth set once appeared 10-9 danger, still 4-0 victory over the opponent to get the opening red. Ito Mimachi played the ball very experienced, in the domestic arena against Hitomi Sato and Hashimoto Fan Naoka almost no defeat, to the international arena in the face of Han Ying, Li Qian, Li Jie, Xu Xiaoyuan and other players can still maintain a high winning rate, Ito Mimachi playing the ball is very brainy, she uses the change of the landing point, through the movement of the front and back left and right to disrupt the rhythm of the cut ball, find the opportunity to forehand a heavy dunk than a beat. Ito Mimachi is still the biggest favorite for the winner of this selection tournament, and before the game, her bitter lord Nagasaki Miyu chose to retire, giving Ito Mimachi a big rival, and reducing the obstacle on the way to winning the championship.
The two disciples under the guidance of Chinese coach Rui Nakazawa (Wang Rui) won, and after Hirano Miyu swept ishikawa 4-0, 18-year-old Miyu Kihara also won the flag, and she and Miyu Kato won a 7-game battle to win 4-3. At the recent WTT Doha Star Challenge, Miyu Kihara and Miyu Kato all reached the semifinals of the women's singles, but Miyu Kato was reversed by the German chipper Han Ying, and in the final, with Han Ying's withdrawal, Kihara Miyu won the women's singles championship and won the women's doubles crown with Nagasaki Miyu.
Nagasaki Miyu, who qualified for the selection competition, unexpectedly withdrew, Nagasaki Miyu left hand long glue play, is the best among the young Japanese team, with the Lion King Cup runner-up to obtain a team to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, because of participating in the Doha WTT regular season challenge and star challenge, continuous combat led to sudden injuries, helplessly chose to withdraw.