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Ito suffered a major blow! The world rankings fell out of the top five, which has been surpassed by Hina Hayata

Ito suffered a major blow! The world rankings fell out of the top five, which has been surpassed by Hina Hayata

On May 3, 2022, the latest table tennis world rankings were announced, and the number one opponent of national table tennis, Japan's famous Ito Mimakoto, suffered a major blow, not only fell out of the top five positions in the women's singles, but also no longer the highest-ranked athlete in Japan - ito Mimachi is currently ranked 6th in the world, while Hina Hayata has become 5th.

Recently, Ito Mimachi has been defeated in consecutive domestic and foreign competitions, not only failed to be selected for the Asian Games singles, but also almost missed the chance to participate in the World Table Tennis Championships, while Hayata Hina is soaring, the results, ranking double harvest, it seems that the Japanese table tennis "one sister" really wants to change!

Ito suffered a major blow! The world rankings fell out of the top five, which has been surpassed by Hina Hayata

Friends who pay attention to table tennis know that Ito Isomasa is the biggest threat to the Chinese team in recent years, not only did the mixed doubles team with Mizutani Hayabusa win the mixed doubles gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games, but also defeated all the active world champion players except Chen Meng in the women's singles field, and even beat the Grand Slam Ding Ning 11-0, which is indeed brave.

In the domestic competitions in Japan, Ito is the national championship women's singles triple crown, mixed doubles triple crown, women's doubles quadruple title, but the recent limelight has obviously been covered by Hayata Hina.

Ito suffered a major blow! The world rankings fell out of the top five, which has been surpassed by Hina Hayata

As early as last year's World Table Tennis Championships, Hina Hayata won two silver medals, becoming the biggest athlete in the Japanese team. Although this year's national championships lost to Ito Mimachi, there were special circumstances at that time - Hayata Hina's hard work in the semi-finals consumed a lot of physical strength, and Ito Mimachi withdrew because of the fever of her semi-final opponent Kihara Miyu, so she had a very big advantage.

Not long after, Ito Mimachi lost consecutively in the Japan Round of 32 and the Asian Games Trials, while Hayata Hina won the championship in the Round of 32 and struck Ishikawa Yoshizumi 11-0; the Asian Games Selection Tournament did not have to participate, and was directly guaranteed to be shortlisted.

Ito suffered a major blow! The world rankings fell out of the top five, which has been surpassed by Hina Hayata

At present, it seems that Ito Mimachi of the granular glue fast attack method has fallen into a bottleneck period in his career, just as Zhang Yining once predicted. And the "orthodox" cross-pat two-sided anti-glue play hayada Hina is getting more and more courageous, there is a great momentum to replace Ito Mimachi and dominate the Japanese table tennis world, and now the world ranking has surpassed Ito Mimachi, and indeed the potential is unlimited.

So can Ito regain her advantage in future competitions and once again establish her status as a "first sister" in Japanese women's table tennis? Let's wait for the latest international competition to kick off!

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