Table Tennis Grand Final Mizutani / Ito pair runner up December 14, 20:16
The final round of the mixed doubles was held in the table tennis world tour held in China, and the pair of Satoshi Mizutani and Misato Ito lost to the Chinese pair at the end of the full game and was second place.
The Grand Final, held in Zhengzhou, China, is an international tournament where only players with the best results from the previous World Tour can participate.
On the 14th, the third day of the tournament, the Mixed Doubles final was held, and the pair of Mizutani and Ito won the gold medal at the World Championships. I played against a pair.
The pair of Mizutani and Ito was led by the first game, 7-9, and then reversed by taking 4 consecutive points with Mizutani's forehand bang and Ito's skillful shot, and 11-9 I took it.
The second game was also taken, but the third and fourth games were dropped by the powerful ball of the Chinese pair, and the game was entangled in the final game.
In the fifth game, the pair of Mizutani and Ito is 3 consecutive points from where they were lead 5-8, but catches up with 8-8, but Mizutani's forehand exceeds the stand in the middle of the game, He was returned to the Chinese pair by banging and was taken 9-11.
The pair of Mizutani and Ito lost the game count 2 to 3 and was second place.
※ Kin is “斤” on “Sun”.
* Bun is a sentence under the rain shower
Mizutani: I became confident
Mizutani said, “The first two games were in very good shape, but the performances of the Chinese players in the third and fourth games have increased. The fifth game has a great performance with each other. I lost the last one point, but I was very confident. ”
“The singles lost yesterday, I thought that I had only mixed doubles, and the feelings for the finals were much stronger. The mentality is also very important for scoring at the end. I want to switch and I want to practice from now on. "