The Japan Table Tennis Asian Games Trials ended the group stage, and in the duel between world No. 4 Olympic champion Mimachi Ito and 17-year-old rising star Miyu Kihara competing for the top spot in Group A, Miyu Kihara played with extremely high quality in receiving serves and defensive ends, and finally won 4-2 (
12-10/8-11/7-11/11-6/11-5/11-7) later advanced to the final, Ito Mimachi missed the Asian Games women's singles venue in advance, which was also the first time since the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships that she missed the women's singles competition of the international competition. Ito Mimako lost to two new stars, Miyu Nagasaki and Miyu Kihara, this year, and her dominance began to loosen, and the Japanese women's team ushered in a serious era of inner volume, perhaps a Warring States era of a group of people competing.
Ito Mimachi's housekeeping skills are serves, serves have unconventional actions, to the opponent's serve and serve to create a lot of pressure, the process of holding is a backhand, forehand, these basic routines in 2018 is quite effective, as the team to her research continues to deepen, let her how to change, change without departing from its origin, Ito Mimachi's loss began to gradually increase, first the main force of national table tennis, quasi-main force can win her, grand slam field even France's Yuan Jianan can defeat her, to the Japanese team in the game, The young players are also familiar with the basic routines that control Ito, and have the countermeasures to win the battle.
In this game, Kihara Miyu is still slightly nervous, after all, Ito Mimachi has experienced hundreds of battles, and is her predecessor, up is a serve mistake to open, but the subsequent game Kihara Miyu showed a tenacious side, in the face of Ito Mimako's forehand stormy attack, Kihara Miyu all carried, and finally prevented Ito Mimachi began to doubt life, defense, in addition to the use of multiple sets of tactics in receiving the ball, disrupted Ito Mimachi's active offensive tactics, Kihara Miyu took the opportunity to take the initiative to score. Both of them are anti-sheng sheng glue, the same way of playing, but Kihara Miyu is an enhanced version of Ito Mimachi, who has more quality in the single board pull ball and stability, and Ito Mimachi relies on the three-plate axe, and once the serve rush is not connected, the opponent will start to make mistakes after a few rounds. In the end, Ito Still relies on fancy surprises to win, and there is no solid basic hard strength to guarantee, which is what Zhang Yining said that Ito did not threaten after 20 years old.
Ito Mimachi scored in the top 8 singles at the 2015 Suzhou World Table Tennis Championships, and Li Xiaoxia also played difficult points, and the next 3 World Table Tennis Championships were unsuccessful, and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games lost the women's singles competition, and her key points in the competition still lacked a hit rate. 2018 Asian Games Ito Mimachi because the Japanese Table Tennis Association attaches importance to the World Table Tennis Championships, sent Out Kato Miyu, Maeda Miyu, Hamamoto Yusu to participate, Ito Mimachi did not have the opportunity to participate, this Asian Games Ito Mimachi lost to Nagasaki Miyu in the Lion King Cup, this time lost to Miyu Kihara, twice did not seize the opportunity, completely missed the singles field.
The two main players of the Japanese women's team in the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Ito Mimachi and Ishikawa Yoshijun, have not been eligible for the Asian Games singles qualification, Ishikawa is not eligible for the Asian Games, the whole team is very strong, no one player is dominant, with the recovery of Hirano Miyu and Hitomi Sato, the new and old team members are in contention, a hundred flowers bloom, the main lineup is difficult to determine, can only be determined by the selection competition, such a game has contingency, but it is fair for each team member.