On April 10, the Japan Table Tennis Asian Games Singles Trials have been completed. Makoto Yoshimura narrowly defeated Hayabusa Tokami 4-3 to win the men's singles championship in the selection tournament and qualify for the Asian Games men's singles.
The method of generating men's singles qualifications at the Japan Table Tennis Asian Games, like women's table tennis, is also divided into two parts. The first part is the men's singles round of 32, where the winner wins a men's singles qualification. Zhang Benzhihe won the men's singles championship in the singles round of 32, taking the lead in qualifying for the Asian Games of men's singles.
The second part is the Asian Games Singles Selection Tournament, in which eight players are divided into two groups. Originally, Group A had Mizuki Kawakawa, Shō Tsone, Hayabusa Tokami, and Yoshiyama, while Group B had Sōya Yokoya, Daimon Yuki, Makoto Yoshimura, and Daisei Matsushita. Yoshiyama entered the tournament by making up for Shinosuke Daiden (Shinozo Daiden retired). Later, Yu yan Daimon also withdrew from the competition, resulting in only three players in group B: Yokoya, Makoto Yoshimura, and Daisei Panasonic. That is, only 7 members of the men's singles actually participate in the Asian Games selection competition.
As for why many players withdrew from the competition, Ri Ping-Pong did not say why. Nagasaki Miyu of women's table tennis also withdrew from the competition, and was replaced by Yurika Minami.
Part of the competition was played on April 9.
Group A's Shō Tsone 4-2 and Kawasuki, Tokami Hayabusa 4-3 Yoshiyama Ichi, and Kawazuki 4-0 Yoshiyama Yoshiyama Ichi, Tokami Hayabusa 4-1 Shō Yoshine Shō.
Group B Makoto Yoshimura 4-1 Yokotani Sei, Panasonic Daisei 4-0 Yokotani Sei.
The competition continues on April 10.
Group A Hayabusa Tokami won 4-3 with Mizuki Kawakawa. Yoshiyama Ichi 4-0 Tsange shō.
Group B Makoto Yoshimura 4-1 Matsushita Daisei.
Group Results: Group A Hayabusa Tokami has a record of 3 wins and 0 losses, while Kawaraki, Shō Tsone and Yoshiyama are all 1 wins and 2 losses.
Makoto Yoshimura of Group B played well, with 2 wins and 0 losses, Panasonic Daisei 1 win and 1 loss, and Yokotani Sheng 0 wins 2 losses.
Hayabusa Tokami and Makoto Yoshimura play in the men's singles final. In the end, Makoto Yoshimura narrowly defeated Hayabusa Toue 4-3 to win the men's singles championship.
Makoto Yoshimura won the Mixed Doubles World Championships with Yoshijun Ishikawa in June 2017, becoming a world champion. The post-00s Togami Hayabusa won the Japan National Championship. It's a game of two generations of players. The two played seven innings, and Maharu Yoshimura narrowly won.
The two fought inextricably. In the first set, Tojo Hayabusa won Yoshimura Makoto 11:9. In the second set, Maharu Yoshimura made a 5:1 start, but was chased back by Hayabusa Toue. Fortunately, Makoto Yoshimura still pulled back a set at 11:9. If Makoto Yoshimura loses two sets in a row, the next game will not be easy to play.
Makoto Yoshimura then won two more sets 11-7, 11-4 to win 3-1 against Tojo Hayabusa. Hayabusa Toue, who fought back, fought tenaciously, and neither of them was willing to give up the game and scored a high score. Tojo Hayabusa won the set 14:12. In the sixth set, he scored another high score, with Toue Hayabusa winning another set 13:11. The big score was 3-3. Toue Hayabusa is very resilient.
Hayabusa Toue had a 4-1 start in the seventh set, and then led Makoto Yoshimura 6-3, 7-5. Makoto Yoshimura burst out and scored six consecutive points to win the set 11:7.
In the end, Maharu Yoshimura defeated Hayabusa Toue 4-3 to win the men's singles championship and qualify for the Asian Games men's singles competition.
According to the selection plan of Japanese table tennis: Masaharu Yoshimura and Tomokazu Zhang Motokazu qualified for the Asian Games men's singles competition, and Miyu Hirano and Hina Hayata qualified for the women's singles competition.
Five people, including Makoto Yoshimura, Tomokazu Zhang, Hayasuke Tokami, Reiki Kawa, and Daisei Matsushita, participated in the Asian Games men's team competition.
Five people, including Hirano Miyu, Hayata Hina, Ito Mimachi, Miyu Kihara and Hitomi Sato, competed in the Asian Games women's team competition. World champion Ishikawa Yoshijun was not involved in the Hangzhou Asian Games women's singles and women's team, which shows that the competition in Japanese women's table tennis is relatively large.
Japanese table tennis will also send two pairs of players to participate in the men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles competitions. A follow-up will be announced.