Table Tennis All Japan Championship Junior 6th grade elementary school students to Matsushima best 8 January 15 20:36
At the All Japan Table Tennis Championships in Osaka City and the Men's Singles in the Junior Club, the 6th grade elementary school student, Teru Sora Matsushima, advanced to the top eight.
12-year-old Matsushima has won 6 consecutive victories from first graders in elementary school and younger national championships. Last year's All-Japan Championship was a junior high school junior boys singles team, the second since Tomokazu Harimoto. I made the best 8 advance in the fifth grader.
He won the junior club singles in the tournament that he entered as a sixth grader. On the 15th, he won the fourth round with a game count of 3 to 1, and then faced the fifth round with second-year high school players.
Matsushima took the first two games in the rally of the game, including skillfully using forehand and backhand to win.
The third game was robbed, but in the fourth game the points were accumulated by aggressive attacks, winning 11-6 and victory in the game count 3-1.
Matsushima is in the best 8 advance alongside last year's results.
On the other hand, he also participated in the men's singles in the general club for the first time, and in the second round of the first match, he beat college students straight with a game count of 3-0.
In the third round, he brought in a full-game match against first-year college students who advanced to the top eight in the national competition of college students, but lost in the final game in a row and lost with a game count of 2 to 3.
Matsushima said, "I couldn't cope with the strong ball last year, but I'm able to cope with it.