The team table tennis world championships opened in China, and Japan won the first match of the qualifying league for both the men's and women's teams.
The team table tennis world championships will open in Chengdu, China on the 30th, and the first team to win three out of five singles matches for both men and women will win.
The Japanese women, who are ranked 2nd in the world and have won silver medals in three consecutive world championships, faced Slovakia, ranked 30th in the world, in the first match of the qualifying league.
In the first match, Kihara Miyu took the lead with a game count of 3 to 1.
In the second game, ace Mima Ito made an appearance and won the first and second games in a row with his versatile serves, but in the third game, he conceded a goal due to the opponent's counter-attack, etc. Dropped at 11.
In the fourth game, the score was 10-10, and it was a deuce, but Ito won the competition and won 12-10, winning the game with a score of 3-1.
Nagasaki Miyu took the third match with a score of 3-0 and Japan defeated Slovakia with a 3-0 win streak to win the first match.
In addition, the world's third-ranked Japanese men, who also entered the first match of the qualifying league, won the world's 31st-ranked Iran 3-0, with HARIMOTO Tomokazu winning the game count 3-1 in the second match.
Mima Ito "It is important to overcome such a game"
Looking back on the first match, Mima Ito said, "They were good at picking up my serves and the balls I attacked. Especially the sense of counter-attacks was perfect. I thought it was important to overcome this kind of match." rice field.
After that, he said, "I want to make adjustments so that we can show our good parts" for the second match.
Tomokazu Harimoto "I endured and play came back"
Tomokazu Harimoto said, ``We weren't able to get the momentum going at the beginning, but we managed to get back into the game by holding back in the second game. was talking