Keyword to Tokyo “Good Play” Table Tennis Miu Hirano Oct. 3 11:27
Miu Hirano who aims at the Tokyo Olympics with table tennis and women's singles. In the singles representative selection race where the top two players will be selected in the world ranking in January next year, they are currently ranked second in Japan. The first place is Misato Ito, who was born in 2000. The difference is so small that the order changes depending on the result of one tournament. Aiming to be the first Japanese player to participate in the first Olympics, Hirano stated that he was determined to “play those who look good”. (Sports News Department reporter Yuri Yoshimoto)
Hirano, who is in an international tournament to earn points in the world ranking that leads to the Olympics. In many cases, it is a hard schedule that goes around three countries a month, but the strong feelings towards the Olympics support Hirano.
(Photo: Rio Olympics, seating player Hirano)
Rio de Janeiro Olympics three years ago. Hirano was defeated in the national team and looked at Ito's success from the audience.
(Photo: Ito who participated in the Rio Olympics)
Mr. Hirano felt that Ito was playing, “I wonder if I ’ve gone to a completely different world or have become a distant presence”. That ’s why, “Athletes who are chosen for the Olympics are not normal in a good sense, or are superman. I thought it would be a tournament that I could n’t attend if I did n’t go to get the right to participate,” Tokyo. Renewed determination to
2017 Asian Championship. Hirano won the championship by overwhelming with the speed of his taste and showing a breakthrough in breaking the top Chinese players.
But after that, it suffers.
China, which has become more crisis-conscious, has taken thorough measures to prevent Hirano's fast-paced attacks.
Hirano, who hasn't been able to win the top Chinese players for the past two years.
In order to overcome the Chinese barrier while being led by Ito in the representative selection race, “I want to go to the 1st place (Tokyo Olympics) rather than the 2nd place. I feel like I will be in the 1st place. It must be inspiring. "
Last month, Hirano participated in the Asian Championship held in Indonesia. The top Chinese players also entered this tournament. It was a situation where Ito could be overtaken at the point of representative fight if he won the championship.
Prior to the tournament, Hirano repeated the practice of slowly returning to the Internet rather than a fast attack to compete with the Chinese. “I can't win if I just attack. I want to do both slowly and quickly,” I thought to expand the range of attacks by mixing loose balls.
The quarterfinals that were greeted. I tried to see if the new style would work against Olympic gold medalists and Chinese polite players.
The first game was robbed, but in the second game, Hirano scored points with the ball that he had been practicing. At the end of the contest involving Deuce, although they lost, they felt that “the contents were not bad.
The remaining three months of the Olympics are over. Hirano's keyword as a keyword for winning the competition and playing an active part on the big stage in Tokyo was the determination that “the one who is watching will play better”.
“Even if one person sees his own game and is trying to play in any kind of tournament that makes something like“ Oh! ”, I want to play that kind of thing at the Tokyo Olympics as well as at the Tokyo Olympics.”