On February 5, Beijing time, the Japan Table Tennis Association held a press conference to announce the 2024 Paris Olympics roster, the first sister of Japanese table tennisTokyo OlympicsMixed champion Misei Ito was not selected, and young player Miwa Zhangmoto, who was born in 2008, was selected as the third member of the group.
Teenager Miwa Haramoto is the younger sister of Japanese men's singles player Tomokazu Haramoto, who was born in 2008 and is young but already has a lot of experience in tournaments. Compared with the flamboyant Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Meihe Zhang does not have the immaturity of a 15-year-old girl and is quite sophisticated. Deng Yaping looked forward to the competition the day before the Hangzhou Asian Games table tennis women's team finals, saying: "Zhang Benmeihe is very talented, more powerful than his brother, we have to be more careful with her."
At the Hangzhou Asian Games in September last year, the Japanese team composed of Miwa Zhangmoto, Hina Hayata, and Miyu Hirano won the runner-up in the women's table tennis team, and Miwa Zhang appeared in the women's team final of the Asian Games at the age of 15, and won a game in the hands of Wang Manyu, the main force of national table tennis, which became the focus of attention of Chinese fans.
Zhang Benmeihe, following in the footsteps of his brother Zhang Benzhihe, is gradually becoming an opponent that cannot be ignored in national table tennis. The mixed doubles of her and Hayasuke Togami also defeated Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha in the Chengdu World Cup, and the women's doubles partner Miyu Kihara also won Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha in the Asian Games last year, which is a new opponent worth paying attention to in the national table tennis doubles.
Last year, the Japan Table Tennis Association changed the selection method, no longer according to the world ranking, but the use of points selection, the top two men and women can directly enter the Olympic singles, the points are mainly based on the results of the Japanese team trials and some WTT competitions, in addition to beating the main players of Chinese table tennis can also add extra points. Miu Hirano and Hina Hayada added a lot of points to the Olympics after beating China's main table tennis players Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi respectively last year. Hina Hayada has been leading the points all the way and she has already secured a spot early. At the 2024 All Japan Championships at the end of January, Miu Hirano and Mimato Ito were very close in points, but Ito lost 3-4 against Kasumi Kimura and missed out on the singles quota for the Paris Olympics in advance, and Miu Hirano successfully qualified for the Olympic Women's Singles.
After that match, Ito cried in a press conference that although he had a chance to qualify as a team, he would not necessarily participate in the team event.
However, the head coach of the Japanese women's table tennis national team, Takehiro Watanabe, said: Misei Ito still has a chance to become a substitute for the Paris Olympics, "The number of substitutes will be decided in May and June, and the selection will be made according to the state of the players. ”
Details of the list of athletes from the Japanese table tennis team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are as follows:
Men's group: Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Hayasuke Togami, Shinozuka Daito;
Girl group: Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano, Miwa Zhangmoto;
Men's Singles: Tomokazu Zhangmoto, Hayasuke Togami;
Women's Singles: Hina Hayata, Miu Hirano;