In recent years, if there is a number one opponent in the Chinese women's table tennis team, this number one opponent is Japanese table tennis women's team player Misei Ito. Born on October 21, 2000 in Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 22 years old, in December 2010, at the age of 10, she participated in the All Japan Table Tennis Tournament and won the first round of the women's singles, breaking the record of the youngest women's singles win held by Ai Fukuhara.
She won a good result in international table tennis as a doubles. At the age of 14, in the ITTF Pro Tour German Open Women's Doubles Finals, Mimako Ito and Miyu Hirano won the women's doubles championship with a 3-0 victory over the Polish pair of Gziboska and Patika, setting a record for the youngest champion pair in the history of the tour. At the age of 16, she won the women's doubles runner-up at the ITTF World Tour Qatar Open, in combination with Ai Fukuhara. At the age of 18, she teamed up with Hina Hayada and won the second platinum tournament of the ITTF Tour - the German Open Women's Doubles Championship.
It was also this year that she began to participate in singles competitions and began to pose a threat to the Chinese table tennis women's team. In the women's singles final of the Japan Open Table Tennis Championships, she defeated China's Wang Manyu 4-2 and won the championship. At the age of 19, in the ITTF Sweden Open women's singles semifinals, she defeated China's Sun Yingsha 4-2. In the 2019 ITTF Austrian Open Women's Singles Final, Misei Ito won the championship with a 4-1 victory over Zhu Yuling, the then world No. 1 Chinese table tennis player.
In 2020, in the semifinals of the ITTF Professional Tour (Platinum) Qatar Open Women's Singles, she defeated Ding Ning, the captain of the Chinese table tennis team, 4-0. After that, Liu Shiwen also lost under her. In the same year, within two years of defeating the table tennis mixed doubles final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she successively defeated the four main players of the Chinese table tennis women's team: Ding Ning, Zhu Yuling, Liu Shiwen, Wang Manyu, and Sun Yingsha, directly becoming the number one strong opponent of the Chinese table tennis women's team.
However, from 2021, Ito Misei will meet Chinese table tennis players again, and the chance of winning is not large, Wang Manyu, Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Chen Xingtong, including He Zhuojia, a sparring player of the Chinese women's table tennis team, have all defeated Ito Misei. In the just-concluded Table Tennis Macau Championships, Wang Manyu defeated Misei Ito again 3-1. On October 28, Beijing time, Wang Manyu actually defeated Mimako Ito again after a few days with three 11-4.
Judging from the situation of Mimako Ito's two matches, her serve has not grown much, although it is full of tricks, but it is still old-fashioned and no longer much threat. The unreasonable fighting that used to give Chinese table tennis players a headache is not as fast as before, and the line is relatively single, which can be said to be significantly less threatening. The most important thing is that her fighting spirit is not as strong as two years ago, and from the expression she showed in the competition, it can be seen that the original murderous aura, I don't know why there is no longer at all. How can such Ito Misei be the number one strong enemy of national table tennis again, so, goodbye, Ito Misei, has been erased from the list of strong enemies of national table tennis!