Recently, the Japanese table tennis team held a summary conference after the Tokyo Olympics. Mima Ito said: “Because I have been partnering with left-handed players, I want to try with Xu Xin (multinational mixed doubles) and also with me. Wang Chuqin is the same size.” For Mima Ito’s wish, many Chinese fans speculated that she still wanted to win against Sun Yingsha. Hayat Mizutani said: “The Chinese team is an insurmountable peak, but we have won this time, and I believe we can beat the Chinese team in the future.” However, according to the latest Japanese media reports, the cradle of the rise of the Japanese table tennis elite academy is about to be due to a shortage of funds. Closed, the head coach of men’s and women’s table tennis in Japan has announced his resignation in recent days.
There are 5 gold medals in the table tennis competition of the Tokyo Olympics. Among them, the mixed doubles gold medal is a newly added event. Xu Xin/Liu Shiwen lost to Mizutani/Ito 3-4 in the mixed doubles final, and Mizutani/Ito won this. Olympic gold medals. Mima Ito subsequently won the women’s singles bronze medal and the women’s team silver medal, but lost to the Chinese team’s rival Sun Yingsha twice in key matches.
Becoming the first Olympic champion in Japanese table tennis history, and collecting gold, silver and bronze medals in an Olympic Games, Mima Ito’s popularity in Japan has skyrocketed. In China, because of the competition between Mima Ito and Yingsha Sun, as well as the loss of an Olympic gold medal in National Ping Pong, Mima Ito has become the target of public opinion. In the Olympic women’s singles semi-finals, Sun Yingsha defeated Mima Ito 4-0 in the match for the Chinese team to win the women’s singles championship and runner-up. After the game, Chinese fans created new online new ideas such as “Saqi Fujito” and “Shayi Dabai”. vocabulary. And Mima Ito’s special fancy serve moves are also regarded as hot topics by many domestic marketing accounts.
Regarding these online spoofs, Mima Ito said she didn’t care. She revealed that she and Sun Yingsha were very good friends off the court, and she hoped that the two of them would continue to promote each other and make progress together. Mima Ito publicly expressed his desire to partner with Xu Xin or Wang Chuqin, which was also regarded by netizens as a strategy of “offensive for defense”. Mima Ito’s partner Mizutani Hayabusa is 32 years old. After the Olympics, he clearly expressed his intention to retire. Moreover, Mizutani Hayabusa’s waist injury and eye problems made it objectively difficult for him to continue playing on the field. In recent years, Mima Ito’s fixed partner in the mixed doubles at the national championships in Japan is Masataka Morion, but it is clear that Masataka Mori is difficult to become Mima Ito’s best partner at the moment.
Before the women’s singles semi-finals of the Tokyo Olympics, Mima Ito had a record of 2 wins and 6 losses against Yingsha Sun. Among them, Mima Ito won 4-2 against Yingsha Sun at the Swiss Open in 2019. After that, Mima Ito suffered a four against Sun Yingsha. Losing streak. In the women’s singles semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics, Mima Ito lost 0-4 to Yingsha Sun, and Mima Ito lost 1-3 to Sun Yingsha in the women’s team final. In this regard, Mima Ito said that although Sun Yingsha won gold in the Olympics, she did not exert her full strength and she would “bite” her hard training. The 2021 World Table Tennis Championships will be held in the United States in November. I hope to have the opportunity to compete with Sun Yingsha again, because “I still want to win Sun Yingsha.”
Ito Mima, Zhang Benchi and many times in the past few years have chanted through the media that they want to defeat the national table tennis and win the Olympic gold medal. Even the Japanese women’s table tennis coach Baba Mika has rarely publicly expressed such a wish. The main reason is Japanese table tennis. Received huge funding from the Japanese Olympic Committee. The Tokyo Olympic Committee has established an elite academy in April 2008, spending a lot of money to support key projects such as table tennis. The latest Japanese media reported that entering the Tokyo Olympics cycle, the Japanese Olympic Committee not only funded the hiring of a number of Chinese coaches and training partners for the elite academy, but also sent a large number of Japanese players to participate in ITTF events to obtain international points and rankings. In the four years before the start of the Tokyo Olympics, an intelligence team was set up to film nearly 30,000 national table tennis games. With the huge losses incurred by the Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese national table tennis team will no longer be able to receive huge financial support from the Japanese Olympic Committee like the previous Olympic cycle. The elite academy is also about to close down. This is also the case of Yosuke Kurajima and Mika Baba. The two head coaches of the Japanese men’s and women’s teams have successively announced the main reasons for their resignations.Return to Sohu to see more
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