Japan's 17-year-old will make a cold goal and beat the Olympic champion! Ito Mimachi had no chance to play against Sun Yingsha. The 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games Women's Singles Qualification Tournament held by the Japan Table Tennis Association has ended, and Hirano Miyu swept 17-year-old Miyu Kihara 4-0 in the final to win the championship, so that Hirano Miyu and Hayata Hina won the singles qualification for the Hangzhou Asian Games, and Japanese Olympic champion Ito Mimachi may participate in team competitions and doubles.
In the last Asian Games women's singles trial held by Japan, Ito Lost to 19-year-old Nagasaki Miyu, and finally Hayata Shina defeated Nagasaki Miyu in the final to win the championship and qualify for the Hangzhou Asian Games singles. A total of 8 contestants participated in the women's singles selection competition, divided into two groups, Group A had Mimako Ito, Miyu Kihara, Miyu Kato, and Hashimoto Noka, and Group B had Yoshinori Ishikawa, Miyu Hirano, Hitomi Sato, and Yurika Minamiha. In the group stage, 17-year-old Miyu Kihara created a big upset, defeating Mimako Ito 4-2 (12-10, 8-11, 7-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-7) to become the first place in the group with three consecutive wins, according to the rules, the first place in the two groups will compete for the remaining Asian Games singles qualification, so Kihara Miyu and Hirano Miyu began to compete.
In the first set, Miyu Hirano and Miyu Kihara fought in the opening stages, and then Miyu Hirano completed the score to win the first set 11-6. In the second set, Miyu Kihara started 3-0, after which Miyu Hirano chased the score to a 6-6 draw, and at the critical moment, Miyu Kihara made a mistake, and Miyu Hirano won another set 11-9. In the third set, Miyu Hirano led the way to win the set 1-9. In the fourth set, Hirano had complete control of the situation on the court and finally locked up the victory 11-1, thus winning 4-0 on aggregate. With Hirano Miyu winning, the Japanese team's players who qualified for the Women's Singles at the Hangzhou Asian Games were also released, namely Hina Hayata and Miyu Hirano. This article is original by Xiao Lizi, please do not copy or port.
Previously, Ito said in an interview that he would focus more on the women's singles and women's doubles events and no longer participate in the mixed doubles competition, because Ito Mimachi believed that he had already defeated the Chinese players in the mixed doubles event, and also won the Olympic championship, and it would be difficult to surpass the current achievements in the mixed doubles event in the future, so he directly gave up the mixed doubles event. If according to Ito's previous statement, she should only be able to participate in the team competition and women's doubles competition at the Hangzhou Asian Games, and have no chance to play against Sun Yingsha in the women's singles event, while Chen Meng, the two main players of national table tennis, Sun Yingsha is expected to win the women's singles championship and runner-up.