On April 12, Beijing time, recently, Japan held the Asian Games table tennis event singles quota selection competition, a number of Japanese famous players, among them, the current world women's singles No. 4 Ito Mimachi failed to reach the final, was eliminated by the 17-year-old Kihara Miyu. The final winner of the tournament was Miyu Hirano, who swept Miyu Kihara 4-0 in the final to qualify for the Women's Singles Games at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Due to the outstanding performance of Hirano Miyu, the Japanese media began to trumpet Hirano Miyu, believing that the current Hirano Miyu has the absolute strength to defeat the Chinese national table tennis players, and has the opportunity to impact the Asian Games women's singles championship, which is very confident. The Japanese media mainly said: "In the singles match of the 2017 Asian Championships, Hirano Miyu defeated 3 Chinese players from China. And if Hirano is in his current state, he can defeat the Chinese team, and the 21-year-old once again destroys the fortress of the table tennis kingdom. ”
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Hirano did not qualify for the women's singles. In the team event, Hirano Miyu lost against Wang Manyu in the final stage, and also lost to Chen Meng and Wang Manyu in the doubles match with Ishikawa Yoshijun, and finally helped Japan to win the runner-up of the women's team.
Apparently, the Japanese media is confident in Hirano's strength, firmly believing that the 21-year-old has the standard to beat the Chinese player. As a post-00, 21-year-old Hirano Miyu won the women's doubles championship of the ITTF at the age of 14, the women's singles championship of the ITTF Tour at the age of 16, the women's singles championship in the women's table tennis World Cup in the same year, and became the youngest Women's Singles champion in history at the age of 16 and 178 days. It can be said that Miyu Hirano is a genius in Japanese table tennis.
Even at the age of 17, Hirano Miyu has achieved the achievement of consecutive defeats of Chinese national table tennis players, and in 2017, Hirano Miyu has defeated Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling and Chen Meng of Chinese national table tennis at the Asian Championships, winning the Asian Championship women's singles championship in one fell swoop. At that time, Ding Ning was the Xinke Olympic women's singles champion, and Zhu Yuling was also the national table tennis champion at that time, but in the end, they all lost to Hirano Miyu. To this end, the Japanese media stressed that once Hirano Miyu returns to the state of 2017, there is still a basis for the hope of beating the Chinese team.
This Hangzhou Asian Games, the Chinese national table tennis women's singles players are Chen Meng and Sun Yingsha, is currently one of the best players in the national table tennis women's team, Chen Meng is the ST Olympic women's singles champion, just won the Singapore Grand Slam women's singles championship back to the world's No. 1 ranking, personal competitive state is good, but considering that Chen Meng has lost to Hirano Miyu, or need to be cautious. On the other hand, Sun Yingsha's strength is not bad, as the first post-00 world no. 1 in the history of the International Table Tennis Federation, Sun Yingsha's comprehensive personal strength is very strong, especially against Japanese players, the performance has always been very good, and it is also the nemesis of Japan's first women's singles Ito Mimachi.
It is worth mentioning that Sun Yingsha is as old as Hirano Miyu, which means that the two will overlap at their future peak and have the opportunity to become enemies of a lifetime, for this reason, Sun Yingsha's women's singles at the Asian Games this time will be very interesting if it is against Hirano Miyu!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)