Tokyo Olympics Test Competition Table Tennis World Cup Team Battle Opening November 6th 17:00

The table tennis World Cup team match, which also served as the Tokyo Olympics test tournament, opened on the 6th, and in the first round of the qualifying league, Japan won a straight victory for girls while men lost.

The Table Tennis World Cup Team Match will be held at the Tokyo Gymnasium in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, the same as the Olympic Games, and will feature 12 teams of the world's top men and women, including Japan and China.

The team will be contested in the same doubles game and 4 singles games as the Olympics, and the team that won 3 will win.

The qualifying league was held on the 6th, and Japanese girls played against Austria in the first match, and the first match doubles played in pairs with Yoshizumi Ishikawa and Miu Hirano.
Ishikawa and Hirano won a straight game with a count of 3-0, showing play that matched their breath from the first game.
In the following singles, Misato Ito, who is ranked 7th in the world ranking, participated in the 147th place in the world who was defeated in the match 3 years ago. I won.
In Japan, Hirano won 3-0 in singles in the third match, and won 3-0 by showing the strength that Austria would not give a game.

On the other hand, the boys faced England, which lost the last World Championship in the first round of the qualifying league.
Despite taking the doubles in the first match, Tomokazu Karimoto, who was fifth in the world in the singles in the second match, lost to the 19th player in the world 2 to 3 at the end of the full game.
Japan, which lost the next two singles games, lost a one-on-three match and made a difficult start.

Ishikawa “A great start for everyone to win”

Ishikawa, who participated in the women's first game, Doubles, felt that “the first match of the team was very important and I could get on the flow if the good start was over. It was.

Ito “If you can fight next time as you like”

Ito, who fought the second match of the women ’s singles, said, “I really liked group battles and wanted to play early. I was glad I could win 3-0. I think so, I want to believe in it and fight with everyone. ”

Hirano “I won the game with doubles”

Hirano, who was active in both women's doubles and singles, said, “I was able to make a flow by winning 3 vs. 0 in the doubles in the first game. I talked about it and enthusiasm for the next game, "I want to fight well so that I can pass the first place in qualifying."

Harimoto "I'm sorry I can't stick to it"

Tomokazu Karimoto, who participated in the men's second game singles and lost to the 19th-ranked England player, said, “I won straight in the first game doubles and brought a good flow, but I couldn't stick I was sorry for losing. "

Niwa "I didn't play well"

Takaki Niwa, who lost in the men's fourth game singles, said, “I thought that if I won, the last five games will be won by Hashimoto, but my opponent's play was amazing and my play was amazing. “It was n’t good,” he said with a look of regret.

Yoshimura “Singles have a bad bill after hand”

After winning the men's first doubles, Masaharu Yoshimura, who lost the third singles, said, “The doubles were very good and I could do it, but the singles would be behind me. I was regretful that I had lost the game where I had to win the most, which led to the loss of this team. "