On January 25th, the Japan Table Tennis National Championships (All Japan Jukkyo Player’s Rights Conference) ushered in the focus of the battle – in the Women’s Singles Quarter-Finals, Olympic Mixed Doubles Champion Misaki Ito Mima faced World Cup Women’s Singles Champion Miyu Hirano, who won 4-3 in 7 games, with 2 match points saved in the sixth game, thus advancing to the quarter-finals to face Miwa Harimoto. The result was a close 4-3 win after 7 games, with Misaki Ito saving 2 match points in the sixth game to turn the game around and advance to the quarterfinals to face Miwa Harimoto, see below for details of the battle.
Ito Mima and Hirano Miyu are very familiar athletes, the former has won the women’s singles title three times in 2018, 2019 and 2022, and the latter also dominated in 2017.
Last year, the two athletes were cold out of the National Championships, Ito Mima 3-4 defeat Kimura Kasumi stopped sixteen, Hirano Miyu 3-4 loss to Akae Natsuki stopped eight, but Hirano Miyu through the team selection points obtained by this game “eliminated” Ito Mima, shortlisted for the Paris Olympic Games singles lineup, and now after a year they are both Now, after a year, both of them have advanced to the last eight and met, this battle is very interesting.
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After the game began, Hirano Miyu took the lead, in the first half of the first set quickly suppressed the opponent, but Ito Mima soon launched a counterattack to chase points, playing their own backhand raw rubber fast attack threat, but ultimately it was Hirano Miyu skill superior, in the second half of the stabilization, and finally 11-8 successfully pulled out the first place.
Ito Mima came up to take the lead in the second set, and then maintained the advantage and took 11-7, Hirano Miyu did not appear to have too many rules on the court, failed to play the two-side of the backhand players on the spin advantage of the raw rubber players, close to the table to fast hit fast obvious downside.
Ito Mima again in the third set in the opening phase of the continuous scoring, although Hirano Miyu strengthened the strength of the attack, but the error rate also increased, including near the net half-high ball also appeared to miss, in the field looks very discouraged, Ito Mima seized the opportunity to win 11-5, but the fourth set Hirano Mima quickly recovered momentum, 11-6 to take, both sides again back to the same starting line.
In the fifth game, Hirano revitalized herself and forced her opponent into a corner with an 11-7 win, and then in the sixth game, she took the lead, but missed two match points, and Ito Mima reversed the lead with a 12-10 win to send the match into a tiebreaker, before blasting her way to a 6-1 start and finishing the game with an 11-6 win, giving her a 4-3 victory over Hirano, and advancing her to the semifinals to face Miyako Hiromoto.
