Ishikawa lost again.
On April 10, 2022, the Japan Table Tennis Asian Games Trials came to an end. The day before, world champion Ishikawa Yoshinori had already ended the battle early, losing to Miyu Hirano and Hitomi Sato in the group stage, and was eliminated without even getting the second place in the group. According to the rules, the first in the group is eligible to compete for singles places, and the first two get the group qualification, and she is lost.
It is worth mentioning that because he did not reach the top four in the round of 32 in March this year, Ishikawa Jiajun has also lost the 2022 Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships, and now he has not been able to participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games, it seems that he is really old, and it is not easy to learn from the idol Ma Long as an evergreen tree!
Born in 1993, Ishikawa Yoshijun was once one of the athletes who threatened the national table tennis with the foreign association the most, and in 2009, he was able to impact Zhang Yining at the World Table Tennis Championships shortly after his debut, and later won medals in the Olympic Games, the World Table Tennis Championships, and the World Cup, especially the mixed doubles gold medal at the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships, which directly promoted the Japanese to add a new mixed doubles gold medal in the Olympic Games.
As a 29-year-old veteran, Ishikawa's decline in status is visible to the naked eye. Especially after the Tokyo Olympic Games, she lost consecutively in the Japan National Championships, the Round of 32 and the Asian Games Trials, and the WTT Grand Slam Tournament did not play well, during which she was blasted by Hina Hayata and Chen Meng to score 11-0, which was really tragic!
In this Asian Games selection match, Ishikawa Yoshinori's first match was met by Miyu Hirano, and the result was swept 0-4, and it was she who kicked Miyu Hirano out of the Olympic singles event two years ago. Immediately after the second match, Ishikawa Yoshijun was won 4-2 by chipper Hitomi Sato, still playing very unsatisfactory, without the momentum of a world champion.
The 2022 table tennis traditional international competition only has the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships and the Hangzhou Asian Games, the result is that Ishikawa Jiachun is a mistake again and again, even if the singles 2 places can not be obtained, the group 5 seats can not be won, which not only shows her poor personal status, but also reflects the great competitive pressure of the Japanese table tennis team.
Compared with the younger generation, Ishikawa Yoshinori's technical playing style is slightly backward, although the control is good, but the speed has long lagged behind the trend of the times, and the strong confrontation is basically at a disadvantage, although it has the left-handed line advantage, but in the case of serious lack of veneer quality, it can not find too many opportunities to play.
At present, it seems that It is very difficult for Ishikawa Yoshijun to return to the World Series battlefield, Ito Mimachi and Hayata Hina are basically stabilizing her, Hirano Miyu is now in a state of recovery, plus Kihara Miyu, Nagasaki Miyu, there are 5 people here, not to mention ishikawa Yoshijun this time even Sato Hitomi has not played, it is indeed difficult to rank among the top five of the Japanese team.
So will we still have a chance to see Yoshijun Ishikawa participate in the competition? Leave it all to time to test!