Hina Hayata was born on July 7, 2000 in Tobata-ku, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. Neither of her parents had anything to do with table tennis (his grandmother was an experienced table tennis player, and her father was a former player on the adult soccer team). Influenced by her older sister, she started playing table tennis at the age of 4, when her sister learned table tennis at the famous local Ishida Table Tennis Club, which trained players such as Seiya Kishikawa.
Originally, she used her right hand, but after joining the Ishida Table Tennis Club, she began to hold a racket with her left hand. In the second grade of elementary school, she participated in the All Japan Table Tennis Second Grade and Under Children's Tournament and made her debut at the National Championships. Although she passed the qualifiers, she was eliminated in the first round of the final, and the champion at that time was Mimato Ito, who was known as the "golden generation".
While attending Nakaichi Municipal Nakahigashi Junior High School, she won the National Junior High School Table Tennis Championship for two consecutive years (2013 and 2014), and broke Miu Hirano's record at the ITTF World Tour Chile Open in April 2014, becoming the youngest player in history to reach the final. At the Philippine Open, she defeated the superior Yu Mengyu in the quarterfinals, and participated in the 20th Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships in September with Miyu Hirano and Mimato Ito, and defeated the Chinese team in the final to win the championship.
In 2015, she won the second place in the All Japan Table Tennis Championships (Junior Category).
In 2016, she entered Hill of Hope High School and became a member of the table tennis club. In the same year, she won the women's singles championship at the high school table tennis championship, becoming the first high school freshman to win the championship in four years after her senior Miyu Maeda. In the same year, she scored her first solo tour victory at the ITTF World Tour Kuwait Open (U-21) and her first personal victory at the ITTF World Tour Australian Open. In addition, she represented Japan at the World Junior Championships held in December with Ito, Hirano and Miyu Kato, where she won the team championship. Immediately afterwards, she won the U-21 team championship at the ITTF World Tour Finals in Doha in December, and won the doubles title with Yoshika Hamamoto, achieving two titles. The U-21 title is the first since Yoshijun Ishikawa in 2011, the doubles title is the first since Ito and Hirano in 2014, and the first Japanese player to win the doubles title.
At the 23rd Asian Championships in April 2017, she won the silver medal in the women's team and the bronze medal in the women's doubles with Mimato Ito.
At the World Championships in Düsseldorf, due to poor results in the trials, he was not selected for singles, but participated in doubles with Mimato Ito, lost to Ding Gai and Liu Shiwei in the semifinals, but won the bronze medal, which is the Japanese pair to win the bronze medal again in 16 years after winning the bronze medal at the 2001 Osaka Olympics, and the youngest 16-year-old pair to win the bronze medal. In the same month, she participated in the Asia-Pacific League, a professional league in Malaysia, and in November, she teamed up with Misei Ito on the World Tour Swedish Open doubles, beating the combination of world number one Zhu Yuling and number two Chen Meng.
In January 2018, she teamed up with Mimato Ito at the All Japan Championship and won her first title in the tournament. In May, at the World Championships, although she only participated in the qualifiers against Egypt, she actively cheered on the bench and contributed to the team's runner-up victory.
In the T-League, which began in 2018, she belonged to the Japanese Life Red Elves. She led the team to victory in 13 games from the regular season to the women's playoffs to win the season MVP.
In January 2019, she partnered with Misei Ito to win the All Japan Championship doubles title, achieving a second consecutive title. In singles, she defeated Yoshijun Ishikawa in the sixth round to advance to the semifinals for the first time in her career. In February, at the ITTF Challenge Canada Open, she defeated former world number one Liu Shiwei in the third round and continued to advance steadily, defeating Hashimoto Hoka 4-3 to win the final.
In January 2020, she teamed up with Misei Ito to win her third consecutive women's doubles title at the All Japan Championship. In singles, she defeated Mimato Ito, who was on the verge of achieving three consecutive titles, in the semifinals, and defeated Yoshijun Ishikawa in the final to win her first title and achieve her second title.
On June 5, 2021, the board of directors of the Japan Table Tennis Association was held, and she was selected as a substitute for the Tokyo Olympics. Although she never got a chance to play, she was still focused on cheering on her teammates.
At the Asian Table Tennis Championships in September, she defeated Shin Youbin in the singles final to win her first major title. She became the first Japanese player to win the team and mixed doubles triple crown in 47 years, after Tomoe Edano.
In the doubles competition of the World Table Tennis Championships in November, they advanced to the final for the second consecutive time, but lost again to the combination of Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu and won the silver medal. In the mixed doubles match against Zhang Benzhihe, she lost to the Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha (China, world No. 1) pair to win the silver medal.
At the 2023 All Japan Championship, she defeated Yoshijun Ishikawa in straight sets in the semifinals, defeated Miyu Kihara in the final, and won the All Japan Championship for the second time three times. She also won the women's doubles title with Mimato Ito and the mixed doubles title with Tomokazu Changmoto, becoming only the fourth female player in history to win three titles.
In the quarterfinals of the 57th World Championships (Durban) singles quarterfinals in May, she faced Wang Yidi (China, world No. 3) and narrowly won 21-19. Although she lost to Sun Yingsha (China, world number one) in the semifinals, she was the first person in 58 years to win a medal (bronze) against a Chinese athlete, and the first after Naoko Fukatsu in 1965. In the mixed doubles match against Zhang Benzhihe, they failed to beat the combination of Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha (China, world number one) who met last time, but won silver.
Using his height of 166cm and slender limbs, he has focused on learning Chiquita's technique since 2015, using his large body to flexibly move the front drive from the table.
