Recently, Ito's mother was interviewed by the Tokyo sports media and revealed two points of information: she and Ito Mimachi agreed that Wang Manyu, the little demon king of national table tennis, was the best player in national table tennis technology and character, and the strongest opponent it encountered; very confused as why Wang Manyu's popularity was not as high as Sun Yingsha's, perhaps China's expectations for Wang Manyu were too high, and she had won the women's singles championship of the National Games and the World Championships. In fact, Ito Mimachi also won wang Manyu twice, if according to Ito's mother, does Ito Mimachi prefer to play against Sun Yingsha or Chen Meng? To know that Sun Yingsha has won 4 consecutive victories over Ito In the 2019 World Cup team final, the 2020 World Cup, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games women's team final and the women's singles semifinals, Chen Meng has also maintained a comprehensive victory record against Ito Mimachi.
Ito Mimachi in 2018 and 2019 is the period of the greatest threat to national table tennis, in a series of open tournaments defeated Grand Slam winner Ding Ning, World Cup champion Zhu Yuling, world champion Liu Shiwen and two new talents Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, her serve and continuous forehand attack strength has brought many difficulties to the main force of national table tennis, but in the past two years, with the deepening of national table tennis research, Ito Mimachi has no previous sharp edge, the national table tennis women's team of the three insurance Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng basically singled out Ito Mimakoto's winning rate of more than 70%.
Ito's mother's evaluation is very pertinent, Wang Manyu has indeed maintained a high winning rate since 2021, until the Singapore Grand Slam in March 2022 was broken by Chen Meng, who maintained an unbeaten record in the team for one year and three months, during which he won the warm-up women's singles championship before the Tokyo Olympic Games, the tokyo Olympic women's team championship, the women's singles championship at the 2021 Shaanxi National Games, the women's singles champion at the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships, and the only one who could win the women's singles and world championships women's singles doubles of the National Games and the World Championships that year was Deng Yaping Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Li Xiaoxia and Wang Manyu did it, the former all became Grand Slam winners, and Wang Manyu is also working towards this goal. Wang Manyu has a high quality of forehand and backhand veneer, and still has the potential to improve in the rhythm of the game.
Chen Meng, ranked No. 1 in the world, defeated Wang Manyu to win the Singapore Grand Slam women's singles title, which also broke the championship drought after the Women's Singles Championship at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and Sun Yingsha also won the women's singles title in the 2021 World Cup Finals, so that the three main players at least guaranteed a crown for women's singles in the three top events of the Paris cycle. Sun Yingsha's violent attack, Wang Manyu's veneer quality, Chen Meng's comprehensive strength are enough for Ito Mimachi to drink a pot, in the final analysis, it is still the strength of the three main forces of national table tennis, Ito Mimachi relies on a fresh move and forehand three-plate axe to dominate the competition Hope is getting slimmer, even in the best state of 2019 she did not enter the women's singles round of 16 of the World Table Tennis Championships.
At present, Ito Mimachi is worried about internal and external troubles, the status of the first sister of the Japanese women's team has been affected by the four main forces of Hayata Hina, Hirano Miyu, Kihara Miyu and Nagasaki Miyu, and has just lost to Yuan Jianan in the Singapore Grand Slam, and after the semi-finals of the Tokyo Olympic Games, she has not encountered the three main players of national table tennis, the number of national table tennis participants has reduced the number of encounters, and it is because Ito's honesty has declined, and it is too late to go out in front of the national table tennis.