
Mima Ito PHOTO: Itaru Chiba
2022 ZEN-NOH CUP TOP32 Fukuoka Tournament
In the selection points race for the Paris Olympics, Ito is currently 5th and Ishikawa is 7th. Influential players who had been late to the competition reached the final. A match to lead to participation in the 2023 World Table Tennis.
Ito was the first to take the lead. The forward team handles the ball with agility and fights at a pace that doesn’t allow Ishikawa to match easily.
Ishikawa tries to shake off the wait with deep shots and long back serves, but Ito, who takes no consecutive points, wins the first and second games.
In the third game, Ishikawa became more aware of starting first. The table shot and the aggressive Tsuttsuki lead 8-6, but Ito takes advantage of the two service rights to line up with 8-8, and Ito takes the ball with a rough run.
Ishikawa, who has no backline, brings Game 4 into a close battle, but he can’t get into a tie-breaking scoring pattern and his expression is dull. Ito also won the final with side-spinning shorts.
Recently, Ito, who had been whispering of a slump, beat Hina Hayata (Nippon Life Insurance) and other strong players and called for a major comeback.
Mima Ito 4-0 Kasumi Ishikawa
11-4/11-6/11-8/11-8
■ Selection points representative of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Japan
■ Participating male players
Tomokazu Harimoto (IMG)
Mizuki Oikawa (Kinoshita Group)
Akira Yokoya (Aichi Institute of Technology)
Koki Niwa (Svenson Holdings)
There is a big dream
Daito Shinozuka (Aichi Institute of Technology)
Sho Sone (TT Saitama)
Shunsuke Togami (Meiji University)
Teruo Matsushima (Kinoshita Academy)
Satoshi Aida (Ehime Prefectural Competitiveness Improvement Headquarters)
Yukiya Uda (Meiji University)
Yuta Tanaka (Aichi Institute of Technology)
Yuma Tanigaki (Aichi Institute of Technology)
Hayate Suzuki (Aiken University Meiden High School)
Maharu Yoshimura (Aichi Daihatsu)
Kentomo Hiratsuka (Phoenix Table Tennis Club)
Souma Ohno (Kinoshita Group)
Yuya Kimura (Noda Gakuen High School)
Kazuki Yoshiyama (Aikodai Meiden High School)
Tamito Watabe (Seisa Junior High School)
Ryoichi Yoshiyama (Aiken University Meiden High School)
Takuto Shiba (Noda Gakuen High School)
Jun Miki (Noda Gakuen High School)
Kanta Tokuda (Noda Gakuen High School)
Daisei Matsushita (Clover Tooth Caspids)
Masataka Mori (BOBSON)
Hayato Kizo (individual)
Kazuhiro Yoshimura (TRAIL)
Yuto Muramatsu (La.LIVES)
Kazuki Hamada (Waseda University)
Totora Ryuzaki (Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd.)
Yuto Iwaida (Noda Gakuen High School)
■ Player
Hina Hayata (Nippon Life Insurance Company)
Miyu Nagasaki (Kinoshita Group)
Miyu Kihara (JOC Elite Academy/Seisa)
Hitomi Sato (MIKI HOUSE)
Mima Ito (begins)
Kasumi Ishikawa (ZEN-NOH)
Honoka Hashimoto (MIKI HOUSE)
Miu Hirano (Kinoshita Group)
Miwa Harimoto (Kinoshita Academy)
Mori Sakura (Nippon Life Insurance Company)
Yurika Nanba (Top Otome Ping Pons Nagoya)
Miyu Kato (Kichijoji Table Tennis Club)
Moe Nomura (Denso)
Satsuki Ofuji (Shitennoji High School)
Saki Shibata (MIKI HOUSE)
Karin Hanazawa (Yoji Dojo)
Yuan Ito (Haeka Table Tennis Club)
Shiki Kusakabe (Yugakukan Junior)
Misuzu Takeya (Kaizuka Second Junior High School)
Yuna Koshio (Seisa Junior High School)
Haruna Koshio (JOC Elite Academy/Seisa)
Ami Shirayama (Meitoku Gijuku High School)
Sakura Aoi (Meitoku Gijuku High School)
Juri Yoshimatsu (Kaishin High School)
Mitsuyo Kimura (China Power)
Minami Ando (Top Girl Ping Pons Nagoya)
Sakura Yokoi (Shitennoji High School)
Hana Yoshimoto (Kaizuka Second Junior High School)
Asiri Rumoi TTS
An Ueda (MIKI HOUSE JSC)
Aoba Takahashi (TIT)
Aiko Murata (Club Miyoshi)
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