As we all know, table tennis is the national ball of our country. Although the overall strength of China's table tennis men's and women's double sports is at the top of the world, relatively speaking, the dominance of women's table tennis in the world table tennis arena is actually stronger than that of the men's team. After all, from the perspective of singles Olympic results, Chinese women's table tennis won all the women's singles gold medals, while men's table tennis lost 3 gold medals in 8 Olympic men's singles competitions.
But unfortunately, people's attention to women's table tennis in the international community is far less than that of men's table tennis. To this end, the International Table Tennis Federation once promoted the regulation that allows female table tennis players to wear skirts to participate in competitions in the hope of increasing ratings, and this move has indeed achieved certain results. But overall, the attention of women's table tennis is still lacking.
There are some female table tennis players who have a large number of fans because of their excellent skills and super high appearance, such as Ai Fukuhara of Japan, Xu Xiaoyuan of South Korea, Liu Shiwen of China and others, and their popularity has always been very high. There are also some female athletes who have a unique way of attracting popularity, the most representative of which is a Japanese table tennis player ——— Shimoto Naomi.
Due to his long life and playing in China, coupled with his fluent Northeastern dialect, Ai Fukuhara is very popular among Chinese fans. However, when it comes to the popularity of Japan, porcelain dolls are not as beautiful as Four Yuan Naoi. Ai Fukuhara's height is 1.55 meters, which is shorter for athletes, but Naomi Shimoto is shorter than Ai Fukuhara, and her height is only 1.5 meters. Born in 1978, Yomoto Naomi is not a top female table tennis player, and even in Japan, she is only second-rate.
The highlight of Naomi Shimoto's career was the runner-up in mixed doubles at the National Competition in Japan, and the early teammate of zhang Yining, the big devil, in the Chinese Table Tennis Super League and won the championship with Beijing. But it is such a seemingly ordinary player whose popularity can surpass Ai Fukuhara, as for why? Just watch her game and you'll understand.
When Competing, Yotsumoto Naomi always wears a "strange costume" designed by herself, and she also wears a beautiful makeup, and her hairstyle is sometimes more exaggerated. The jersey she wears today looks very bold, often exposing her shoulders, arms, thighs and other parts, plus her own appearance is not bad, a little makeup is like a model-like beauty playing table tennis.
In her early career, Naomi Shimoto often quarreled with the team's team staff because she didn't want to play in her regular sportswear. Seeing that she could not reach the four yuan Naomi, although the team manager was unwilling, he had to let her "fly herself". Naomi Shimoto once said that she would use the best side to get on the field, and she was such a person. And she also said that wearing nice clothes to participate in the game is also good for table tennis.
However, although wearing "strange clothes" to participate in the game has been recognized by fans, for the table tennis management agency, they do not like such a "disobedient" player. The Japan Table Tennis Association has repeatedly persuaded Yomoto Naomi not to always wear such clothes to participate in competitions, but Yomoto Naomi has never listened, and finally the Japanese table tennis team has decided to ban Yotsumoto Naomi for life.
In this regard, some netizens said that they could not understand, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with wearing fancy clothes to participate in the game, but in fact, both teammates and opponents were actually negatively affected by the four-yuan Naomi outfit. Naomi Shimoto's opponents were more or less distracted when they played, as they felt like they were fighting a "flower butterfly". Not only that, but her teammates couldn't stay focused, and in the mixed doubles match, many of the male players who had partnered with Four Yuan Naomi said they couldn't concentrate on playing.
Some netizens joked that it was not so much that Four Yuan Naisomi was a table tennis player, but rather that she was a costume designer who could play table tennis. After being forcibly retired, Shigen-naomi was blessed, because she could now focus on the work of costume design. In addition, Siyuan Naisei also took a lot of photos, in the photo she is sexy but not vulgar, but also looks full of literature and art, many people also lament that Siyuan Naisei is the kind of woman who looks better the older she is.
So what do you think about The Four-Element Naomi, an "outlier" player in the table tennis world?