In the women's singles quarterfinals of the World Table Tennis Championships in the United States, Mima Ito and Kasumi Ishikawa both lost to Chinese players and lost in the final eight.
The quarterfinals of the women's singles, the world championship of table tennis, were held in Houston on the 27th, and Ito, who is the bronze medalist of the Tokyo Olympics and ranked 3rd in the world, played against Wang Yidi of China in 10th place in the world.
Ito got the game point 10 to 8 in the first game, but couldn't get another point and dropped it 10 to 12.
In the second game, points were piled up with the serve and receive of the characteristic and recovered with 11 to 7, but in the third game, it was a painful development due to the response to the serve and the mistake in the receive, and it dropped by a large margin of 2 to 11. I did.
After this, Ito couldn't keep up with the flow due to mistakes in the game, and lost with a game count of 1 to 4 and did not advance to the semi-finals.
Ishikawa, who is 9th in the world, played against Chen Meng, who is the gold medalist of the Tokyo Olympics and is the number one in the world.
Ishikawa took the initiative in the first game, serve and receive, and accumulated points, leading 8 to 7.
However, from here, he was pushed by Chen's strong shot, and the ball he attacked was returned and a mistake was made, and he was deprived of points for three consecutive times and allowed a reversal, and dropped 9-11.
Even after the second game, he couldn't cope with Chen's tough course shots and powerful shots, and lost with a straight with a game count of 0 to 4.
With this, all the Japanese men and women of singles disappeared.
Four of the five women who participated were defeated by Chinese athletes, showing the thickness of the Chinese wall again for the Paris Olympics three years later.