Table Tennis All Japan Championship Junior 6 Komatsu Matsushima is the youngest and runner-up January 16 at 15:41
In the men's singles of the table tennis all-Japan championship junior club held in Osaka City, the 6th grade elementary school student, Teruhisa Matsushima, passed the record of Tomokazu Harimoto and advanced to the final in the youngest ever, and runner-up have become.
12-year-old Matsushima made his eighth consecutive eighth-grade finish in the fifth grader since Tomokazu Harimoto, a junior boys singles junior high school junior high school student who participated in the All Japan Championship last year.
Once again, he advanced to the junior section and advanced to the semifinals, where he beat a high school sophomore who lost in the quarterfinals last year with a game count of 3-1.
Matsushima was in the best four when he was a sixth grader. He passed the record of Harimoto and entered the final in the sixth grade for the first time. In the final, he competed with third-year junior high school student Yoshikazu Yoshiyama who won the national competition last year. Did.
Matsushima took the lead in the first game of the first game, backing up his points with his backhand he was good at, leading to 11-8.
The second game was a deuce due to the development of the competition, and the game was dropped by Yoshiyama who scored consecutively in the game.
After that, Matsushima was pushed by his opponent's powerful shots and made a series of mistakes, taking two games in a row, losing one to three game counts.
Yoshiyama won, and Matsushima was the youngest runner-up in history.
Matsushima: "The next is absolute champion"
Teruyoshi Matsushima, the youngest player in the history to reach the final and runner-up, said, "I'm glad to win an opponent who has never won the quarterfinals today. I was just doing it, but this time I was able to do the counter myself and made a little progress. "
Then he said, "I'm glad I didn't expect to get this far, but I'm sorry because I lost in the final. I went to my opponent and got the first game, but finally I couldn't cope and I couldn't do it myself. I want to win the next time. "