Table tennis Takashi Niwa player is surely to enter the Tokyo Olympics at 15:01 on December 13
As a result of the international tournament held in China, table tennis Takaki Niwa has confirmed that it will be within the top two Japanese players in the world rankings next month, ensuring that he will be a representative of the Tokyo Olympics.
The table tennis for the Tokyo Olympics and the Japanese national team for singles will be chosen for the top two men and women next month based on the points earned at the international tournament for the past year.
In the men's singles, Tomokazu Harimoto had already made it into the national team, and Niwa and Kei Mizutani were competing for the remaining frame.
Niwa was not able to participate in the Grand Final, which was held in Zhengzhou, China. As a result of losing to the player, it was confirmed that it would be within the top two Japanese players in the next month's world ranking, and it was confirmed that the Tokyo Olympics and men's singles would be represented.
Niwa will participate in the Olympic Games for the third consecutive time since the 2012 London Games.
About Takashi Niwa
Takashi Niwa is 25 years old from Hokkaido.
This is the third consecutive Olympic Games.
Although the height is 1 centimeter and 62 centimeters, it has an attack that makes use of the speed at which it stands near the ping-pong table and strikes back at a fast timing, and an original play that strikes the opponent's intention.
He was active on the international stage early, including winning the Junior World Championship at the age of 17, and won a silver medal in a men's group at the last Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
In fact, the 3rd place in the Asian Cup in April and the best in the following world championships made a good start. However, in the subsequent international competitions, the 7th consecutive defeat and the difficult time continued. It was.
However, in the final stage, he returned to the top, entered the best 8 in the November World Tour, Austrian Open, went to the quarter-finals of the Men's World Cup, reversed Mizutani Satoshi at the point of the national team, followed by Tomokazu Harumoto. I made sure that the singles were represented.