Table Tennis German Open Mixed Doubles Mizutani / Ito Pair Runner-up February 2 at 0:41
In the table tennis international competition held in Germany, the final of the mixed doubles was held on the 1st, and the pair of Tokyo Olympic representative Jun Mizutani and Misato Ito lost to the Chinese pair and finished second place was.
The German Open of the World Tour, hosted by the International Table Tennis Federation, will have a final in the mix doubles, which will be adopted as a new event at the Tokyo Olympics on the 1st. He played against a pair of Chinese players * Kin and Liu Poet * Bun who won gold medals at the event.
The pair of Mizutani and Ito held the game points first and second in the first game and the second, but they could not cope with the Chinese pair's ball hitting a tough course at the point of the game and allowed a reversal, and the two games were taken consecutively Was.
In the third game, they competed in the middle stage, but in the final stage, Mizutani's intense forehand and Ito's skillful serve repeatedly accumulated points and won 11-7.
However, in the fourth game, he was pushed by a powerful shot on the course of the Chinese pair and lost 7 to 11 without catching the flow.
The pair of Ito and Mizutani lost second place with a game count of 1 to 3.
Ito also faced the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the gold medal China and polite players in the women's singles quarterfinals, but couldn't get enough points in the game to lose the game count 1 to 4.
Ito said, "Even though I was leading both singles and mixed doubles, I couldn't get one more point, and my opponents were more responsive. I'm looking forward to every tournament, so I want to increase myself and win the next match. "
※ Kin is “day” and “bread”
* Bun is a sentence under the rainy season