On April 10, 2022, Beijing time, the Japanese Table Tennis Asian Games Selection Tournament continued, the women's singles group stage broke out of the big cold, Ito Mimako lost 2-4 to Miyu Kihara, missed the first place in the group, thus losing the Asian Games women's singles qualification. For the national table tennis, this is obviously good news, the Asian Games women's singles champion is a good bet for us.
Ito performed well on the first match day, beating Hashimoto Anda and Miyu Kato to top the table. Miyu Kihara in the same group is also a complete victory in both battles, Ito Mimachi will compete with Miyu Kihara for the first place in the group, comparing personal strength and competition experience, Ito Mimako is of course more optimistic.
However, Miyu Kihara has won the Doha Star Challenge before, and she has improved significantly under the guidance of Chinese coach Wang Rui. Facing Ito Mimachi, Miyu Kihara dared to fight, grasped the key points in the first set, and won 12-10. Ito then began to fight back, winning two consecutive sets 11-8, 11-7. I thought that Ito would be able to win the game smoothly, but she suddenly lost her hand and made mistakes.
Miyu Kihara became more and more courageous, winning three consecutive sets 11-6, 11-5, 11-7, and eliminating Ito Mimako 4-2 to win the first place in Group A. Ito's loss also means that she did not qualify for the Asian Games women's singles, which is indeed a big cold. Judging from the performance of this period of time, Ito Mimachi has no secrets to speak of, and the progress is not large, which is very similar to the original Hirano Miyu.
The winning Miyu Kihara will compete with Miyu Hirano, the first place in Group B, for women's singles qualification at the Asian Games, and Miyu Hirano is in hot form, beating Hitomi Sato 4-2 and winning all three games to win the first place in Group B. Ishikawa Yoshinori, who had suffered two consecutive defeats, saved a little face by defeating Yurika Minamiha in a battle of honor.
For the national table tennis, Ito Mimako's lack of access to the Asian Games women's singles competition is undoubtedly good news, after all, Ito Mimachi is the number one opponent of Chinese women's table tennis, with Ito Mimachi out, the women's singles champion basically will not slip away from the national table tennis hand. At present, according to the selection rules of national table tennis, Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha have qualified for the women's singles competition, at which time, the two are expected to meet in the final.
Of course, the Japanese team's Hayata Hina is very strong, and whether it is Miyu Kihara or Miyu Hirano being selected, they are very competitive, and the national table tennis can not be taken lightly!