At the World Table Tennis Championships held in the United States, the third round of women's singles was held, and Mima Ito, the bronze medal of the Tokyo Olympics, beat Saki Shibata at the end of the full game and advanced to the fourth round.
On the 25th, the third round of women's singles was held at the World Table Tennis Championships.
Ito, who is the bronze medalist of the Tokyo Olympics and is ranked 3rd in the world, played against Shibata, who is 43rd in the world, and Japanese players.
In the sixth game, which had a game count of 3 to 2 and one game left until victory, Ito could not cope with Shibata's powerful forehand, and dropped by a large margin of 2 to 11 and the game was entangled until the final game.
Even so, Ito accumulated points with his skillful serve and receive, and won the 7th game 11 to 6.
Ito beat Shibata with a game count of 4 to 3 and advanced to the 4th round.
Other Japanese
players are
:
▽ Kasumi Ishikawa, 9th in the world
,
4-0 against Ukrainian players,
▽ Miu Hirano, 12th in the world
,
4-3 at the end of the full game to Slovak players,
▽ 18th in the world. Hina Hayata, who was in the top position, beat the Egyptian players 4 to 1, and four
Japanese players decided to advance to the fourth round.
On the other hand, in the men's singles, Togami Shunsuke, who ranked 100th in the world, lost a straight 0-4 to the Chinese player, who ranked 16th in the world, in the third round, and all five Japanese players who participated were eliminated.