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- Aren’T You Talking About Ping Pong?
- Destined to Win
- Strict Upbringing
- Intimidating Size
- Ying and Yang of The So-Called “Miu Mima” Pair
- Results Thus Far at Tokyo 2020
No, the Olympic sport of table tennis, known as takkyu(卓球) in Japanese, is different from ping pong. Contrary to popular opinion, the two games are, in fact, not the same. Only the serve must hit the table on each side of the net in table tennis, whereas in ping pong, every shot must hit the table on both sides of the net. As you may recall from su...
Anybody who has ever played a team sport with one or two stand-out players has probably realized that such talent is often sustained by parents who can be overly supportive. Unlike the kids on the team who are just there to have a good time, these players—and their parents—are out to win. With every successive year, this “support” tends to become e...
Ito, who won her first Olympic medal, a bronze, at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, is said to have “announced” to her parents at age 2 that she wanted to follow in their footsteps (as if she had a choice). From that point, Ito has been trained intensively with a very strict upbringing. Many in Japan believe that her upbringing has been too harsh. It is s...
Despite standing only 152cm (5’ 0”), Ito intimidates opponents who are much taller. Ito uses her petite stature as an advantage. While she can in no way be characterized as a mouse, Ito’s small size enables her to confuse and frighten her opponents, somewhat like how a mouse can terrify an elephant. Combined with an intense mental focus on winning,...
Both from Shizuoka Prefecture near Mt. Fuji, Ito was only 4 years old when she first paired up with Miu Hirano, who had just turned 5. The two would often play together as doubles partners. They first played doubles together at the age of five in a tournament for second-graders and younger. The pair later won the 2014 German Open, earning them a Gu...
Together with teammate Jun Mizutani, Ito won the gold medal in mixed doubles on July 26. Three days later, she snagged another bronze medal in women’s singles. Together with Miu Hirano and Kasumi Ishikawa, yesterday, Ito beat a rival team from Hong Kong to reach the semi-final of the women’s team bracket. We wish Ito and her teammates the best of l...
Mima Ito (伊藤 美誠, Itō Mima, born 21 October 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player. [5] [6] She won a bronze medal in the Women's Team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics when she was 15 years old. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal with her partner Jun Mizutani in the Mixed Doubles event which made its debut, a bronze ...
Jul 12, 2021 · 12 Jul, 2021 12:45 p.m. EST. Guardar. Nuevo. Japanese 13 year olds Mima ITO and Miu HIRANO have created table tennis history by winning the women's doubles event at the GAC Group 2014 ITTF World ...
Mar 31, 2014 · Miu Hirano and Mima Ito made table tennis history on Sunday when they became the youngest-ever doubles winners in the history of the ITTF Tour with victory in the women's final at the German Open.
- The Japan Times
Apr 11, 2019 · Setting records from a young age Japan’s Mima Ito has been lighting up the scene for some time now and is the hot favourite to challenge China’s finest for the sport’s most prestigious trophies. Twice a silver medallist with Japan at the World Team Championships and a Women’s Team bronze medal winner at Rio 2016, […]
Sep 25, 2019 · Also, there are comparisons that can be drawn between the performances of Miu Hirano and Mima Ito. At the quarter-final stage in Wuxi, matches being best five games, Miu Hirano had recovered from a two games to nil deficit and saved match points in the fourth to beat a bemused Ding Ning (3-11, 12-14, 11-9, 16-14, 12-10).
