The 2019 Table Tennis World Championships is about to start, and at present, the main players of various countries are consciously adjusting the competitive state, basically not registering for low-level competitions, but the Japanese team has done the opposite, drawing a number of World Table Tennis Championships participants to participate in the ongoing Oman Challenge and Spain Challenge, including:
Miyu Hirano, Hitomi Sato, Hashimoto, Hina Hayata, Kazuhiro Yoshimura signed up for the Omani Tournament, while Miyu Kato, who won the last singles ticket to the World Table Tennis Championships, won the final world table tennis singles ticket in the team selection tournament.
Born in 1999, Miyu Kato is slightly larger than Ito Mimachi, Miyu Hirano and Hina Hayata, and is one of the young players with a relatively good development momentum in recent years in the Japanese team, but it has not posed a relatively large threat to the Chinese table tennis team for the time being, so it is not particularly valued.
Prior to this, due to Hina Hayata's victory over Olympic champion Liu Shiwen and her all-win victory in the first stage of the World Table Tennis Championships trials in Japan, it was widely believed that she would be the No. 5 singles player on the team. As a result, in the second stage of the selection match, Hayata Hina was defeated by Miyu Kato with 5 match points in her hand, thus losing her qualification for the World Table Tennis Championships singles.
However, judging from the current arrangement of the Japanese coaching staff for Miyo Kato, she is obviously not taken very seriously, otherwise she would not have been sent to play in distant Spain.
Note: Although it is also a challenge, Oman is a plus (which can be understood as "challenge +"), the level is slightly higher, and the strength of the participants is stronger. In a few days, it will be Qatar, Oman and Qatar are close at hand, which is also conducive to athletes resting. It can be seen that Miyu Kato's position in the Japanese team is still significantly weaker than that of other singles main players.
Obviously, the team let Miyu Kato go to Spain because it was more important to play this event, so I hope that she can brush more experience points and find some confidence before the World Table Tennis Championships.
As it stands, Kato's performance has not disappointed her organization, having eliminated two opponents 4-0 in a row, but one world ranking 103, one world ranking 526, the next opponent world ranking 92, and Kato Miyo herself world ranking 20, so it is not difficult to qualify.
Relatively speaking, Oman is still the focus of our current attention, and Kato Miyu as the first singles seed of the Spanish tournament, if you lose, it is considered upset, winning the championship is normal, there is not much worth paying attention to, everyone can take a look at it, after playing I will inform you of the results, welcome friends who are interested in the national table tennis opponents to continue to pay attention.
Finally, let's sit back and wait for the Qatar national table tennis to debut and cheer for the Chinese team together!