Recently, the news that two national table tennis women, Sun Mingyang and Fan Siqi, won the championship with the team in the Japan Table Tennis League has aroused the attention of fans. It is reported that in the 2023-2024 season of the Japan Table Tennis Federation playoffs women's gold medal match, Sun Mingyang and Fan Siqi's Japanese life team defeated the Kinoshita Kanagawa team led by Miwa Zhang with a big score of 3-0 and won the championship. In this game, Sun Mingyang got the opportunity to play, and she defeated Zhang Benmeihe 3-1 to score a crucial point for the team. Many netizens said that Sun Mingyang was fantastic, not only proved himself with the championship, but also let Japanese fans see the demeanor of Chinese table tennis women.
In recent seasons, Sun Mingyang and Fan Siqi are both among the players of the national table tennis women's team. Although the two cannot be compared with Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu, etc. in terms of world rankings, comprehensive strength and competition results, they have also achieved good results in domestic and international competitions many times. When Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and other core players are suspended, Sun Mingyang and Fan Siqi can get the opportunity to participate in international competitions in most cases. Sun Mingyang is a typical strength player in the national table tennis women's team, who won the third place in the women's singles at the National Youth Table Tennis Championships and was selected for the first team of the Chinese table tennis team in 2016.
In the 2020 National Table Tennis Championships, Sun Mingyang won the third place in mixed doubles. A year later, she teamed up with her teammates to win the bronze medal in the women's team at the Shaanxi National Games. In addition, Sun Mingyang also served as the sparring partner of several main players of the national table tennis women's team, and was the "hero behind the scenes" in the hearts of fans. Like Sun Mingyang, Fan Siqi was also one of the coaches of the national table tennis women's team and won the championship of the women's table tennis team at the National Games. At the 2022 WTT Doha Challenger, Fan Siqi withstood the pressure and won the women's singles gold medal for the Chinese team.
In the 2023 season, Fan Siqi and Liu Weishan partnered to win the women's doubles runner-up at the WTT Regular Challenger Almaty. This season, considering their own competitiveness and the Olympic preparations of the main players of the national team, Sun Mingyang, Fan Siqi and Zhang Rui chose to compete in the Japanese Table Tennis League. Sun Mingyang and Fan Siqi joined Team Life Japan, team-mates including World Championships bronze medallist Hina Hayata. Zhang Rui joined the Kinoshita Kanagawa team and became teammates with Miwa Zhangmoto and Miu Hirano.
After a fierce competition, Team Kinoshita Kanagawa and Team Nippon Life met in the women's final of the playoffs. In the first set, Kinoshita Kanagawa's women's doubles pair Miyu Kihara and Miyu Nagasaki lost 1-2 to Japan's Asuka Sasao and Aso Reina. In the second set of singles, Sun Mingyang played for the Japanese life team, and the opponent was Miwa Zhangmoto. In the end, the Chinese girl defeated her opponent with a big score of 3-1 and scored a valuable point for the team. In the third set of singles, Hina Hayada defeated Miu Hirano with a big score of 3-1 to help the Japanese life team seal the victory.
(Shopkeeper Luo)