Women's national team members, such as Mima Ito, who has been nominated for the Japanese national team at the Tokyo Olympics table tennis, played a match assuming a team competition with overseas teams and confirmed the finish for the Olympics.
Assuming a match against Germany
The Japan Table Tennis Association played a match in Saitama Prefecture for two days until the 3rd, in order to help the athletes who have been appointed as representatives of the Tokyo Olympics to develop a sense of actual fighting for the actual performance.
A women's team competition was held on the 3rd, and domestic players were selected in anticipation of a match against Germany, which lost in the semifinals of the previous Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
A pair of Kasumi Ishikawa and Miu Hirano, who are the deputy captains of the Japanese team, participated in the women's doubles in the first match.
Ishikawa and Hirano scored 11 to 8 by accumulating points in each other's forehand in the fourth game, where two games were stolen first and there was nothing left to do.
In the final fifth game, he took the initiative with Serve and Receive, which he had strengthened, and took the initiative with 11 to 5 to win the game with a game count of 3 to 2.
Ito participated in the singles of the second game that followed, and played against a male player with a play style called "Cutman" who hits under the ball and thoroughly picks up the opponent's ball.
At the beginning of the first game, Ito made a lot of mistakes and was led by 3 to 6, but he made a comeback by deciding a strong smash and took it 11 to 8.
After this, Ito, who shook his opponent back and forth with a skillful attack, showed the power of Ace by winning straight with a game count of 3-0.
In the singles of the third game after this, Hirano accumulated points with a strong forehand and won the game count 3: 1.
On the 3rd, the special rule is that even if you win 3 games first, all 5 games will be played. In the 4th game singles, Ito and Ishikawa will win both games, and the team of the unofficial players will play 1 game. He won 5-0 and showed a good finish toward the production.