Table tennis Miu Hirano to represent the World Championship on December 21 at 19:45
Miu Hirano, who missed the singles representative at the Tokyo Olympics in table tennis, participated in the final selection event to decide the representative of the world championship to be held in March next year and decided to enter the representative.
The table tennis world championships are held alternately in individual and group competitions every other year, and next year a team competition will be held in Korea in March.
Only five men and women from Japan will be able to participate in the team competition, and the players who are sure to become singles representatives of the Tokyo Olympics, such as Tomokazu Harimoto and Misa Ito, are the representatives of the world championship.
On the 21st, the final selection round for one of the representatives was held in Sendai City, where 10 men and women participated in the tournament.
In the women's final, Miu Hirano, who missed the representative of the Tokyo Olympics and singles, played against 19-year-old Hina Hayada.
The third game with a game count of 1 to 1 also competed until the end, but Hirano returned from the 7 to 7 by hitting a shot with a powerful course of Hayata's powerful course, scoring 4 points in a row and 11 to 7 I took it.
After that, they competed for games one by one, but in the sixth game, Hirano overwhelmed Hayata with a skillful attack that mixed bangs and loose balls, taking 11-4.
Hirano won the game count of 4 to 2 and became the world championship representative.
Hirano says, "I was just a week away from the Grand Final of the World Tour, which missed the Tokyo Olympics singles national team, and I was surprised to win while I was not catching up, but I was also confident." did.
Looking back over the past year in which he competed for the Olympics, he said, "I felt like I was going to participate in the Olympics for the first time and felt the pain I had never felt before, especially the points I have earned at international competitions in recent months. I didn't play so much because I thought too much, but today I was able to play what I was aiming for. "
Regarding the next year's World Championship, which decided to be represented, "I think that the biggest event before the Tokyo Olympics is that many athletes will compete in the Olympic Games. I want to do my best to win one of the Chinese players on the big stage ".
Boys work on Morizono for Japan
On the other hand, in the men's final, Masataka Morizono played against Takuya Kami. After three games in a row, he took four games in a row and won the reverse with four to three. I decided to participate.
Mr. Morizono said, "It was a year when I felt a difference from the top three in Japan during the Tokyo Olympics competition, so I am happy to win and win the title of the World Championship on my own." I said.
He also told the World Championships next year, "Because it is the biggest battleground before the Tokyo Olympics, I would like to do my best for Japan in games, practice and other situations."