Japan Table Tennis League women's strong team Kinoshita Kanagawa has won 3 consecutive away games in recent times, defeating Kyushu Club 3-1 in the latest round, Yoshizumi Ishikawa won 3 consecutive games to reverse the top 8 player Miyu Kato of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in the first set of 2-11, especially in the fourth game Yoshizumi Ishikawa 3-9 down magically scored 8 points in a row, and finally defeated Kato 3-1 for Kanagawa to get the third point. The inconsequential fourth set Kanagawa sent 17-year-old main player Miyu Kihara to an unexpected 3-1 upset loss to Moe Nomura.
In the first set, Kinoshita Kanagawa FC sent Tomokazu Harimoto's sister Mikazu Harimoto to partner Yuka Umemura, and the Kyushu club was Maki Shiomi / Kyoka Izuzawa to face the game. After two short rounds of battle, Kanagawa's Akimoto and the combination easily won the first point 2-0. Miwa Chang, who recently won the women's singles title in Japan U14, also won a runner-up at this year's WTT Challenger, and her results are steadily improving and she is expected to become the main member of the Japanese women's team in the next Olympic cycle.
The second set was the first singles contest between the two sides, Kanagawa Club sent the World Cup women's singles champion Miyu Hirano against Kyuka Idezawa, who did not participate in the World Table Tennis Championships women's team and World Cup in the past month, but maintained a good feel, she won 3-0 against Sawa, giving Kanagawa Club a 2-0 lead. Miyu Hirano, as the only main force of the Japanese women's team to win the three major women's singles championships, has been strongly impacted by Mimako Ito, Miyu Kihara, Miyu Nagasaki and others, and needs to improve her combat effectiveness in the international arena in the future to prove that her strength still exists.
In the third set, Kanagawa sent Yoshizumi Ishikawa to face Miyu Kato in Kyushu, Yoshizumi Ishikawa is the mixed doubles champion of the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships and the runner-up of the women's team of multiple World Table Tennis Championships, the 28-year-old veteran lost 2-11 at a bad start in this set, and then showed a tenacious side, winning 3 consecutive sets to reverse the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships women's singles top 8 player Miyu Kato, of which Yoshizumi Ishikawa once fell behind 3-9 in the fourth game, but she scored 8 points in a row, directly helping Kanagawa win the full game in advance.
In the fourth set, Kanagawa sent world No. 13 Miyu Kihara against Moe Nomura of Kyushu Club, which was seen as a one-sided result before the match, but it was a big upset, and Miyu Kihara, as the fourth main player of the Japanese women's team, accidentally lost to Moe Nomura 1-3. Miyu Kihara participated in the final confrontation as the second singles of the Japanese women's team at the World Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu, and finally lost to Chen Meng, and then she qualified for the Macau Championship and the World Cup, but did not reach the top 4 record, perhaps continuous combat led to excessive physical exertion and energy could not keep up, which caused an upset end, but Kanagawa lost this game and did not matter the overall situation.
Kanagawa and Nippon Life are the biggest favourites to win the Japanese league this season, in this week's meeting between the two teams, Nippon Life was injured due to the two main players Hina Wasada, Mimako Ito continued to fight and choose to rest, and was finally defeated by Kanagawa 3-1, the future clash between the two sides of the main force may appear in the title battle, Japan Life and former national player Li Jiayi, the overall strength is still dominant.