The International Table Tennis Federation updated the list of participants in the U.S. Table Tennis Regional Tournament, the name of a Japanese sister Ito Mimachi appeared on the mixed doubles registration form, this time her partner will be the Singapore Grand Slam men's singles runner-up Yukiya Utada, which is also Ito Mimachi's first time since the Tokyo Olympic Games to participate in the mixed doubles event competition, after experiencing consecutive setbacks in the women's singles field, Ito Mimachi or to reconsider the breakthrough of the Paris Olympic Games, choose the mixed doubles that has won gold as the Olympic gold point, obviously more reliable than the women's singles and women's team.
Before the Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese table tennis team has been clamoring to win the championship, but it is difficult to win gold in the women's and men's team events, which is not a self-reliant ability to turn the tide, and the singles events Zhang Benzhi and Ito Mimachi are all ups and downs players, and the degree of on-the-spot play can not be predicted, often losing to the no-name pawn. In the mixed doubles event, liu shiwen / Xu Xin is also the champion of the 2019 World Championships and finals, defeating Mizutani Hayabusa / Ito Mishimasa in 2 major competitions, it seems that winning the championship is not a problem, plus the Japanese combination was almost eliminated by the German combination Solja / Francesca before advancing to the semifinals, but the final result was that the Japanese combination defeated the national table tennis world champion combination at home, which is also the first mixed doubles table tennis gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games.
After winning the Tokyo Olympics, Mizutani Hayabusa retired, Ito Once stated that the Japanese men's team only Mizutani Hayabusa is the most suitable partner mixed doubles, Houston World Table Tennis Championships, All Japan Championships, Singapore Grand Slam have abandoned the mixed doubles event, to specialize in women's doubles and women's singles, the result of the women's doubles partner Hayata Hina lost to Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu, the World Table Tennis Championships women's singles lost to Wang Yidi, Singapore Grand Slam is even lost to France's Yuan Jiannan, even the 3 main players of national table tennis did not touch even hit, Ito's belief in winning the World Table Tennis Championships and the Olympic Games has wavered, and he has to find another way out, unwilling to continue to sit still.
May 3-8, 2022 and May 10-15, 2022 in the United States to hold two consecutive regional tournaments, Ito Mimachi / Utada Yukiya appeared in the mixed doubles, Utah Yukiya is the men's singles champion of the 2020 All Japan Championships, although the international men's singles results in the past 2 years are average, but in the recent Singapore Grand Slam tournament a blockbuster, brave to reach the men's singles semifinals, and Fan Zhendong also played 6 sets of defeat, for a time became one of the new opponents of national table tennis. Yukiya Utada because it is a left-handed crossboard, in the doubles pairing also has more advantages, he and Tokami Hayabusa won the world table tennis championships men's doubles third place, but also now the men's doubles world no. 1 combination, this mixed doubles with Ito Mimako is also an attempt, if the effect is ideal, Perhaps Yukiya Utada and Ito Mimachi are going to develop towards the third line of combat, Yukiya Utada playing style is more advanced than Mizutani Hayabusa, hoping to become a national table tennis opponent again, after all, Japan's previous focus on building Zhang Benzhi and / Hayata Hina is somewhat out of state, Difficult to pose a threat.
The strength of the national table tennis lies in the thickness of the overall talent, and the strong enemy is only the light of the fireworks, I am afraid it is difficult to fight with the national table tennis, even if the Japanese team has become the number one strong enemy of the national table tennis, but it is only that Ito Ando and Zhang Benzhi and the two defeated the main force of the national table tennis a little more, and the rest of the opponents are basically invincible. The Paris Olympic cycle of day table tennis continues to compete for gold and silver in the mixed doubles event with a fortuitous outbreak.