Recently, the number one opponent of national table tennis, Japan's young Player Ito Mimakoto, was interviewed and mentioned his latest goal, that is, to defeat the Chinese team at the Houston World Table Tennis Championships in November and win 2 gold medals.
Ito said: "The day after the Tokyo Olympics, I thought about my goals. The next goal is to win the World Table Tennis Championships in November. Now I have set my goal of beating the Chinese table tennis team at the World Table Tennis Championships to win singles and women's doubles. I'm full of motivation and have fun practicing. ”
However, many fans also scoffed at this: Do you have the strength?
As we all know, in recent years, there is only one person in the women's table tennis association who can pose a greater threat to the national table tennis, and she is Ito Mimako. Since 2018, Ito has broken through the defense of almost all the main players of the Chinese team in the singles field, including Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen, Zhu Yuling, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Chen Xingtong.
In the doubles field, Ito Mimachi and Mizutani Hayabusa defeated Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen to win the first Olympic mixed doubles gold medal in history, and the women's doubles also reached the final of the World Table Tennis Championships, just one step away from the championship.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Mizutani Hayabusa announced her retirement, and Ito also decided to put the mixed doubles event aside for the time being – after all, the Olympic champions have been won, and her pursuit of this project will naturally be much more restrained.
According to the latest announcement of the Japanese team's Houston World Table Tennis Championships athlete list, Ito Only signed up for the women's singles and women's doubles, of which the women's doubles partner is still his old comrade-in-arms Hina Hayata. Not long ago, Hayata Hina also won the women's team, women's singles, mixed doubles 3 championships at the Asian Championships, the momentum is in full swing, and now she and Ito Mimachi cooperate again, it is indeed not to be underestimated!
However, as many fans and friends said, at present, the Chinese women's team has completed the replacement of the old and the new, the new "troika" Chen Meng, Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu are not afraid of Ito Meicheng, and Chen Xingtong and Wang Yidi have also defeated Ito, but Ding Ning, Liu Shiwen and Zhu Yuling, who have been inferior to Ito Meicheng in recent years, have not been shortlisted for the World Table Tennis Championships, so the pressure is not great.
And even in doubles, sun Yingsha/Wang Manyu's strength is not below Ito Mimachi/Hayata Hina, so it is difficult for Ito to win the championship.
For the upcoming challenge, Ito Yoshimachi kept a clear head while shouting slogans, bluntly saying that if he wanted to win the championship, he "must overcome the obstruction of the Chinese team". According to most people's speculations, Ito May win a medal in women's doubles, but it is difficult to reach the top; it is not easy for women's singles to enter the top four, first try to see if you can become the third place!
At the Time of the Tokyo Olympics, Ito was the only athlete to win a women's singles medal, but that was also when the Chinese team could only send 2 players to compete, so no matter how the bronze medal was taken away. Although there are 2 bronze medals in the World Table Tennis Championships today, the Chinese team can send 5 people to participate, if everyone can be distributed in 4 1/4 districts, Ito Mimakoto is fierce.
So how much of italic can be fulfilled? Let's sit back and wait for the Houston World Table Tennis Championships to kick off: Come on, China!