On October 5, the 2021 Asian Table Tennis Championships entered the final battle. In the completed events, the Korean team won the men's team championship, the Japanese team won the women's team championship, the Japanese player Hayata Shina won the women's singles championship, and the Hayata Hina/Toue Hayashi won the mixed doubles championship. In the men's doubles final, the Japanese duo of Yukiya Utada / Hayabusa Tokami defeated the South Korean team of Jang Yu-jin / Hayashi Hayashi Jong-hoon 3-1 to win the championship.
In today's women's doubles semifinals, the Japanese duo of Miyu Nagasaki / Minami Ando 0-3 Tian Zhixi / Shin Yubin, and the Hong Kong combination of Du Kaixuan / Li Haoqing 3-0 Zheng Xianyue / Liu Yuxin. The women's doubles final will kick off tonight at 8:00 Beijing time.
In the two men's singles semi-finals, 40-year-old Chinese Taipei veteran Zhuang Zhiyuan lost the first set 6-11, and won three consecutive sets 14-12, 11-7, 11-9 consecutively, eliminating South Korea's famous Player Zhang Yuzhen and taking the lead in the men's singles final.
Another men's singles semi-final took place between Japan's Hayasuke Tokami and South Korea's Lee Sang-so. In the end, Lee Sang-so also lost 8-11 in the first set, winning three consecutive sets: 13-11, 12-10, 11-6. The men's singles final will be played between Chuang Ji-won and Lee Sang-so.
Affected by the National Games and the epidemic, the National Table Tennis Championships finally chose to collectively abandon the competition. The Japanese team chose to send a new squad in the absence of the Olympic athletes to exercise the experience of the young players in the competition, while the South Korean team and the Hong Kong team of China were all in the main force. Lin Yunru and Zheng Yijing of the Chinese Taipei team did not participate, forming a new lineup of veterans + newcomers. The last two championship trophies of men's singles and women's doubles are worth looking forward to.
It can also be seen that the reserve force of the Japanese team has gradually risen. Taking Hayabusa Toue, who broke into the top 4 of men's singles, as an example, he won the championship in the men's doubles and mixed doubles events, and also defeated the post-00s players Xu Yingbin and Xiang Peng of the same age in the international competitions, and the strength should not be underestimated.