Miu Hirano turns 24 today! Sun Yingsha 7 years ago, she was still a newcomer in charge of simulating Miu Hirano's playing style
News on Sunday, April 14, 2024, Beijing time. In the upcoming Macau Table Tennis World Cup, and even the future Saudi Grand Slam and Paris Olympics, we can see Miu Hirano, who has grown into the main force of the Japanese women's team. This little girl, born on April 14, 2000, celebrates her 24th birthday today.
Japanese table tennis has always had a tradition of mothers nurturing their daughters. In the early years, Ai Fukuhara and Kasumi Ishikawa were brought out by Yan's mother, and the three millennium sisters: Miu Hirano, Misei Ito, and Hina Hayata, who were born in 2000, are all like this. Miu Hirano is the first of the three millennial sisters.
The World Cup matches that are currently underway. In the women's singles event, a total of 24 championships have been produced, of which 23 championships were won by Chinese players. The only exception was the 2016 World Cup in the United States. At that time, almost none of the Chinese players participated. And Miu Hirano won that World Cup at the age of 16.
Then, in April 2017, at the Asian Championships in Wuxi, the Chinese team won 4 gold medals in 5 events! And the one who snatched the gold medal was this Miu Hirano. Miu Hirano defeated China's Ding Ning, Chen Meng, and Zhu Yuling to win the championship, and after winning the championship, it happened to be her 17th birthday.
It was also because of the loss of the gold medal this time that the Chinese national table tennis hurried to deal with it. Sun Yingsha, who had just been promoted to the first team that year, was the player responsible for simulating Miyu Hirano's style of play. From 2017 to now 2024, 7 years have passed, Sun Yingsha has grown to become the world's No. 1, while Miu Hirano has always been between 10th and 20th in the world, with technical bottlenecks, but it will also break out from time to time. For example, at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea, Miyu Hirano defeated Wang Yidi.
This 24-year-old girl, in the next few years, will be the focus of China's national table tennis research!