When I saw the new world ranking yesterday, I wanted to write about Hina Hayata. Not only because Hayata Hina ranked fifth, but also surpassed Ito Mimako to become the first place in Japanese women's table tennis, but a long time ago, many people thought that Hayata Hina's future level would be very high and promising. Just read a few articles of the same kind, I feel that I may not be able to write anything new, so I stranded, but I always feel unhappy not to spit out. I knew I needed to have a relatively new entry point. This point still came, so I decided to write it.
What rules?
In recent years, the Japanese women's team has cultivated three representative players: Miyu Hirano, Mimachi Ito, and Hina Hayata. Both were born in 2000, in order of month: Miyu Hirano (April), Hina Hayata (July), Andō Mimachi (October)
But age is not the law we are talking about.
The law is:
Three people have produced two pairs of women's doubles combinations, and when one person in a doubles combination achieves a singles performance, the other person is not outstanding in singles; when the other person achieves a singles result, the singles strength of the person in front of them is greatly reduced, and the edge is not there.
The three of them cycled in a time span of more than six years. By now, Hayata Hina's sharp edge has begun to appear, while Ito Mimachi feels that she lacks stamina, and the peak seems to have passed.
Although as early as 2017, Hirano Anduna and Hayata Shina also played doubles and won the open championship, they were relatively speaking, they still combined with Ito Mimachi, and in these two or three years, Ito Andō and Hayata Hina were the highest level in The Japanese women's doubles.
When Hirano won the World Cup singles title in 2016 and the 2017 Asian Championship singles title, Ito was only familiar as Hirano's doubles partner. The two of them have been training together since childhood, and they are also very familiar with each other, and their cooperation is also very tacit. The doubles of Miyu Hirano and Mimachi Ito have been quite good in a series of open tournaments and even finals, beating Chinese players and winning some championships.
Looking at the competitions in those years, Zhu Yuling and Chen Meng's combination had lost to them, and in some pre-open interviews, Zhu Yuling had boasted that the main opponent was the Japanese women's doubles, and wanted to "revenge" and then win the championship.
But five years ago, in 2017, Hirano Relied on the World Cup and the Asian Championships, especially the Asian Championships (victories over Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling, Chen Meng) to make a splash, and quickly became the most important opponent of the Chinese women's team's research. The members of the Chinese women's team, especially the main team members, as long as they encounter Hirano Miyu in the game, they are all playing with twelve points of spirit, waiting in a strict position, and riveting hard.
At that time, Ito Mimachi, although he had already participated in the Rio Olympic Games (team members), did not have too bright results in singles and was not valued by national table tennis.
After the 2017 Asian Championships, with the national table tennis attaches great importance to and research on Hirano Miyu, the World Table Tennis Championships Ding Ning blew the counter-offensive horn and completely defeated Hirano Miyu in one fell swoop, and then the main force of national table tennis set off the rhythm of "beating" Hirano Miyu. Since that year's World Table Tennis Championships, Hirano Miyu has been a win for the national table tennis! Zhu Yuling even staged a scene of a double kill against Miyu Hirano in a tournament many times! It was extremely difficult for Hirano to even win a game!
Hirano sighed: I don't even want to play table tennis! It's almost like getting depressed.
But at this moment, Ito's singles broke out!
Flag Events:
First, the 2018 World Table Tennis Championships team final Ito Mimako defeated Liu Shiwen 3-2, so that the world saw that there are still people in the world who can defeat Chinese players in the final to get a point! It's sensational!
Second, in 2018, Ito won two championships in the Japan Open and the Swedish Open, especially the Swedish Open.
From the semifinals, semi-finals and finals, Ito Mimachi connected With Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling, once again staging the miracle of Hirano Miyu in 2017. After this match, Ito completely replaced Miyu Hirano as the number one opponent of the Chinese team.
This game also changed the future careers of Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling, especially for Zhu Yuling, with the final of the 2019 Austrian Open again losing to Ito Mimakoto, Zhu Yuling, who is a 2016 Rio P card, gradually faded out of the main layer.
In 2019, 2020, 2021, in the past three years, Japanese women's table tennis has almost single-handedly challenged the Chinese women's team. In almost all competitions, Ito is the only opponent of the Chinese women's team that needs special attention. Ito has indeed continued to strengthen himself with victory, achieving a good record, and once ranked second in the world ranking.
The appearance of Ito Mimachi directly beat Zhu Yuling to "scrap", Ding Ning was swept by Ito Mimachi at the 2021 Open, and the single set was beaten to 11-0, and also completely lost the opportunity to compete for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Although Liu Shiwen participated in the mixed doubles competition, she could not qualify for singles and was replaced by Wang Manyu in the team competition, which can also be said to be due to Ito Mimako.
Because since 2019, Liu Shiwen has not fought with Ito Mimachi at all, nor is she sure that she can win Ito Mimachi, while Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu, Chen Mengquan wins, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Ito Mimachi have fought countless times and maintained a huge advantage, especially Sun Yingsha.
Around the beginning of 2019, the Japanese women's doubles made adjustments, and Ito's partner was replaced by the left hand Hayata Hina, and quickly achieved good results. The women's doubles final of the World Table Tennis Championships was staged between China and Japan that year, and the "Seafood Sisters" Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu staged a stunning reversal, and the performance of the Japanese women's doubles also left a deep impression on the world.
Two years later, the women's doubles final of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships is still the China-Japan final, Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu swept Ito Mimachi / Hayata Hina, successfully defending the championship, and the level of Japanese women's doubles has been distanced from the Chinese women's doubles.
Hina Hayata's singles were not outstanding before the Tokyo Olympics, the most eye-catching thing was that in the domestic competition in Japan, Hayata Shina won the singles title at the 2021 Japan National Championships (defeating Yoshijun Ishikawa), but in the final of the 2022 Japan National Championships, Hayata Shina lost to Mimako Ito.
In 2019, Hayata Hina realized the importance of singles, in order to accumulate experience in international competitions and earn enough points, Hayata Hina frequently participated in international competitions, even in challenges with low points, Hayata Wasa also actively participated.
It was this kind of active participation that defeated Liu Shiwen at the Portugal Challenge before the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, causing a sensation in China. At that time, some people said that in time, Hayata Hina, who has a height of 165cm, will have unlimited future.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Ito's international results declined, and even missed some important competitions (WTT World Cup), and the competitive status and development trend were problematic.
At the World Table Tennis Championships, Hina Hayata and Ito Mimachi lost to China's Wang Yidi successively, and the points earned were not much different. In the important WTT World Cup, Hayata Reached the Final Four, losing 1-4 to Sun Yingsha in the semi-finals, Hayata Shina earned a lot of points for this, and Ito Mimachi believed that the WTT World Cup was "out of sight" and directly refused to participate.
Compared with the contemporaneous Ito Mimachi and Hirano Miyu, Hayata Hina reached a height of 165 cm. In the Japanese women's team, such height occupies a natural advantage. Significant increase in strength and platform area.
In addition, Hayata Hina stands in the front position, fast, the short ball handling in the stage is also very good, the forehand offensive force is large, the continuity is strong. What is even more rare is that Hayata's psychological quality is also quite good, and in the game, she is very able to "wrap" and be very able to maneuver.
In the WTT World Cup match against Sun Yingsha, Hayata Hina's ability to hold the spin of the FAR STAGE has left a deep impression on people.
In the international arena for several years, although Hayata Shina has not achieved particularly eye-catching results and has suffered many setbacks, this tolerant Japanese girl has been working hard in the dark and has been making progress.
Compared with Ishikawa Yoshinori and Hirano Miyu in front, Hayata Shina has fierceness in her bones, but she is not as brash and exposed as Ito Mimachi.
In terms of playing style, Hayata Hina, who has two sides and two sides, is undoubtedly more room for development than Ito Mimachi.
After several years of continuous confrontation, Ito Mimachi, who takes the "strange" ball route, is gradually familiar with and studied by the Chinese team, and the level of Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu of the Chinese team has also increased by a large piece compared with two years ago, which can be said to have thrown away Ito Mimachi.
Ito's progress feels like it's slowed down; or her height, style of play, and basic skills may limit her future development.
Perhaps, the peak of Ito Mimachi has passed, and I am afraid that I will follow the old path of Hirano Miyu, while Hayata Hina has shown a trend of further growth.
According to this law, Hayata Hina is likely to become the only foreign player who is the most threatening to the Chinese team after Hirano Miyu and Ito Mimachi.
It is also quite interesting to say that the three people combine with each other's doubles, singles and take turns to feng shui, and also staged many wonderful and classic competitions for the world table tennis world, but no matter who it is, if you want to really break through the Chinese team, it is basically impossible, can only say that compared to other countries, it is the most threatening one.