Table tennis player Harimoto Ishikawa shows off play for the first time in about half a year

Table tennis player Harimoto Ishikawa shows off play for the first time in about half a year September 14 23:04

Tomokazu Harimoto and Kasumi Ishikawa, who have been nominated for the Japan national team at the Tokyo Olympics in table tennis, participated in the match-style event and performed for the first time in about half a year.

Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, table tennis has been canceled or postponed since March.

Under these circumstances, in the T-League of the domestic league, domestic men and women such as Isao Harimoto, Ishikawa, and Koki Niwa, who have been appointed as representatives of the Tokyo Olympics, in order to encourage many people through the play of the players. A match-style event in which a total of 15 athletes participated was held without spectators and distributed via the Internet and other means.

At the event, nine single-game singles games were first played.

Harimoto participated in two games and won by accumulating points with his strong backhand, which he has focused on strengthening in the six months without competitions.

Subsequently, a match was also held in which the men's team and the women's team played against each other, and the women's team, who received a 4-point lead for each game in advance, accumulated points with Ishikawa's service ace and won the game with a game count of 2: 1. did.

Harimoto said, "I was worried that I would only practice for the last six months when there was no match, but today I realized that my ball will work, and my anxiety has disappeared by more than half."

Ishikawa said, "I was happy to be able to play in a very good sense of tension. I think it was a new step for the table tennis world, and I enjoyed myself."