The 2024 All Japan Table Tennis Championships has begun, and for Olympic champion Mima Ito, this battle is very important because it is directly related to the competition between her and Miyu Hirano, and if Mima Ito can’t make it to two more rounds than her opponent, she will fall out of the singles lineup of the Paris Olympics for good, but this time, the All Japan Table Tennis Championships she may face a tough test when she meets Miwa Harimoto.
In a recent interview, Mima Ito claimed that her body was once very weak, even coughing to the point of asthma, triggering rib injuries, enduring the pain and insisting on it until now has improved, the next will be the impact of the national championship and Olympic qualification, it is worth paying attention to!
Performance
Concerned about the ping world friends know, in the last Olympic cycle, Mima Ito is the Chinese table tennis team’s number one rival, but also the undisputed number one in the Japanese table tennis world, but today’s Mima Ito has long since lost its former glory, the country, inside and outside of the game lost in a row, the number one position was Hina Hayata also replaced.
In the current Japanese Olympic standings, Mima Ito is not only far inferior to Hina Hayata, but also 34.5 points less than Miyu Hirano, which means that it is not enough for her just to win the title, she must pull away from the achievement gap with Miu Hirano in order to be selected for the Olympic singles.
However, with Mima Ito’s recent performances, it’s going to be very difficult for her to achieve that goal, as she’s already lost several times in Japan’s civil wars, and in the last All Japan Table Tennis Championships she lost to a previously unknown high school player who now has mediocre results, so it’s still unknown if she’ll be able to make it past a few rounds this year.
Injury Factor
And as I said before, Mima Ito not long ago experienced a more serious injury situation, straight from last December has been coughing, even almost to the point of asthma, which led to rib injuries, but at present has recovered.
Objectively speaking, this time Mima Ito want to be selected for the Olympic singles, then, more to see Miu Hirano’s play, after all, Miu Hirano is the points leading party, even if the two are playing in the final, Mima Ito won the championship, then the total number of points is not enough, but there is no way to do it, after all, she can not control the play of others, can only care about their own performance, bluntly said, “My first and foremost goal is to win the championship.”
So as a former winner of the Women’s Singles Triple Crown, Mixed Doubles Triple Crown, and Women’s Doubles Five Crown, can Mima Ito create another glory in this tournament? The suspense is still there, let’s wait and see!
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