On April 10, Beijing time, recently, the Asian Games selection tournament of table tennis in Japan, the strongest women's singles in the Japanese table tennis team and the world's No. 4 Ito Mimachi, played, but in the group stage against 17-year-old Miyu Kihara, Ito Mimachi was eliminated with a 2-4 loss and did not have the opportunity to enter the final. The scores were 10-12, 11-8, 11-7, 6-11, 5-11, 7-11 respectively.
After the game, Ito cried again in an interview, mainly saying: "I can't play my full strength in this competition, and Kihara Miyu's performance is very good." ”
According to the rules of the competition, this Japan Asian Games selection competition, only the players who enter the final have the qualification to compete for the Asian Games women's singles quota, for this reason, Ito Mimachi's upset out means that she will not be able to play in the Hangzhou Asian Games women's singles competition, let alone compete for the championship, and even the qualifications have not been won.
In fact, Ito's personal performance since the Tokyo Olympics has been bad, and in the international arena, she has not reached the semifinals in the women's singles of the World Table Tennis Championships and the Singapore Grand Slam women's singles, and even the top 4 have not been achieved. Among them, in the Singapore Grand Slam tournament, Ito Mimachi still lost to the Chinese player Yuan Jiannan, and was out of the cold early.
In addition, in the Japanese domestic arena, Ito Mimako's performance is also very poor, before the Japanese National Championships, she lost early like a cold, if it were not for the Tokyo Olympic Medal blessing, Ito Mimachi could not even enter the women's team list of the World Table Tennis Championships. In the Asian Games selection match, Ito Mimachi once again lost to the 17-year-old Kihara Miyu, it is clear that Ito Bemoga began to stagnate and did not progress, supporting Zhang Yining's views that year.
In the past, when Ito Mimachi was born and became famous in 2019, Zhang Yining, the famous devil of national table tennis, analyzed it as a commentator, ito Mimachi this is a "little Fukuhara Ai", when he was a child, he was strong, and he did not develop at a certain age, and it was concluded that Ito Mimachi would not pose any threat to China's national table tennis. Zhang Yining is very optimistic about Sun Yingsha, the little devil of the national table tennis, and bluntly says that Sun Yingsha has a good psychological quality and has the opportunity to continue to grow and become a top player.
Today, Zhang Yining's prediction has come true, Ito Mimachi is the 4th player in the world, but he has frequently exploded in international competitions, and has not won a singles medal in the competition for nearly a year, and even in Japan, he cannot win smoothly. In contrast, Sun Yingsha won the runner-up of the Women's Singles of the World Table Tennis Championships and the Women's Singles Champion of the World Cup Finals after the Tokyo Olympic Games, and personally won 5 world championships during this period, once reaching the top of the world's No. 1, and Ito Completely opened the gap. Zhang Yining is right, Ito Mimachi has not developed at a certain age, and Sun Yingsha has become the world's top player and is still improving!
For Ito, if she can't quickly restore her competitiveness, she will lose her position in the Japanese table tennis team, the rapid growth of Hina Hayata and Miyu Kihara is enough to threaten the position of Ito, especially Miyu Kihara, who participated in international competitions at the age of 12, won the world women's doubles championship at the age of 14, and now at the age of 17, Miyu Kihara can beat Mimako Ito, and she will be the future hope of Japanese women's table tennis! Competitive sports strength is the last word, and Ito Mimakoto, who cannot progress or even regresses, will face the threshold of being eliminated!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)