On September 21, Momota Kendou led the Japanese team to the Sudirman Cup, this year's Sudirman Cup, the overall strength of the Japanese team has declined, and the Japanese team is in the same group as Malaysia, so the first strong opponent that the Japanese team needs to face is the Malaysian team.
Malaysian men's singles player Li Zijia said he believes Momota will return to form again in the Su Cup and The Soup Cup. "I'm sure he'll come back at his best and hopefully continue to challenge him."
Momota Kendou
The overall performance of the Japanese team at the Tokyo Olympics is very unsatisfactory, Momota Kendou stopped the biggest upset in the group stage, and with the Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese team suffered a huge blow, the men's doubles Keigo Enada / Kenshi Kamura withdrew from the national team, Endo Daiyu announced his retirement, basically the men's doubles did not have much to come up with, women's singles Okuhara Hope and Yamaguchi Akane Although they have strength, in the team competition, which needs to boost morale, the two of them lack some sharpness, and the women's doubles Hirota Caihua due to injury reasons, After the Tokyo Olympics, the choice of surgery, Fukushima Yuki and Hirota Caihua also did not qualify for the Su Cup and the Yu Cup, but the Japanese women's doubles comprehensive strength is not weak, there is also a certain strength, mixed doubles has bronze medal players Watanabe Isamu watanabe and Higashino Ariaki, the biggest weakness of the Japanese team this time, may be in the men's doubles.
As far as Japan's current list is concerned, the average age of the team members is also 27 years old, and several projects have not continued to emerge with outstanding young players, and the two pairs of players sent by the men's doubles are even more stretched, both are players ranked outside the world ranking of 10, Hogi Shoro / Kobayashi Yugo world ranking 16, Koga Kei / Saito Taiichi is the world ranking 28, the two pairs of combination age is not small, not to cultivate young players, it can be seen that the Japanese team men's doubles has "no one available", facing the pain of the replacement of the team's new and old.
Shoro Hoki / Yugo Kobayashi
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