Why did Ito fail to qualify for the Olympic Games? The Japanese head coach explained: In two aspects, it is inferior to Miwa Zhangmoto
The list of the Japanese table tennis team to compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics has been announced, and the last gold medalist Misei Ito was eliminated from the competition, and was robbed of the last group ticket by the 15-year-old Chinese teenager Zhang Benmeihe, which made fans sigh, and the head coach of the Japanese women's table tennis, Takehiro Watanabe, also said the reason for this choice in an interview:
"[Zhang Benmeihe] was very active in singles and doubles...... After comprehensively examining the state of the competition and the results of the top players, I thought that Zhang Benmei and the players were the most suitable, so I chose her. ”
Obviously, the outstanding performance in both singles and doubles, and the recent better form have become the two main reasons for Zhang Benmeihe's final victory, and Ito Misei is indeed inferior to Zhang Benmei in these aspects, and he is not unjustly defeated!
Objectively speaking, Ito's failure to be selected for the Olympics was an unexpected and reasonable result: she said "unexpected" because she was, after all, the mixed doubles champion, the women's team runner-up, and the third place winner of the women's singles last year.
As for "reasonable", it is because Ito completely gave up doubles competition after winning the championship last year, but the results of specializing in singles are very unsatisfactory, and his results continue to decline, and it is normal for him to fall behind in the end.
I have to say that the change in Ito's career plan became the last straw that crushed her qualification for the Paris Olympics, because after she basically did not participate in doubles competition, Zhang Benmeiwa was "encroaching" on her territory step by step, and last year she cooperated with Miyu Kihara to defeat Sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu, and Hayasuke Togami teamed up to defeat Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha, becoming a new opponent in national table tennis doubles.
And even in the singles field, Miwa Zhangmoto's performance is better than Misei Ito, so Takehiro Watanabe said that Miwa Zhangmoto is now "able to be single and double", and the advantage over Misei Ito is even greater.
In terms of the results of the internal and external wars in the past year or so, Zhang Benmeihe's performance is far better than Ito Misei, first of all, he has won at least once in the domestic against the five main forces Hina Hayata, Miyu Hirano, Misei Ito, Miyu Kihara, and Miyu Nagasaki, and secondly, he also defeated top masters such as Qian Tianyi and Shen Yubin in foreign wars, almost overturning the main force of national table tennis, and his performance was very conspicuous.
Misei Ito is not as good as Miwa Zhang in doubles now, and the singles are also beginning to decline, plus he doesn't have much desire to compete, so it makes sense that he finally lost the Olympics, so he can only wait for four years to fight for new opportunities!