Looking forward to the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships, Hina Hayada "has definitely a stronger feeling than during the Paris Olympics"

The 2027 World Table Tennis Championships will open in Doha on the 17th. The Japanese table tennis team, which is based on the squad for the Paris Olympics, aims to reach the podium in all five events for the first time in 58 years since the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships in Stockholm. In the women's event, Hina Hayata, the bronze medalist in women's singles at the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, has made it to the podium for the second time in a row. The 16-year-old Japanese table tennis sister Zhang Benmeihe, who participated in the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, aims to dominate 3 events.

Women's singles world No. 7 Japanese table tennis star Hina Hayata

Paris Olympic bronze medallist Hina Hayada challenges in the women's singles. Looking forward to her fifth World Table Tennis Championships, she said excitedly: "In my table tennis career, I can enjoy the World Championships from the bottom of my heart. What could happen. ”

If Hina Hayata, who won the women's singles bronze medal at the World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, wins two consecutive medals in this World Table Tennis Championships, it will be a feat for the first time in 58 years since Naoko Fukatsu, who won the gold medal at the 1965 World Table Tennis Championships and the silver medal at the 1967 World Table Tennis Championships.

Hina Hayada struggles to recover her left wrist from the injury she sustained at the Paris Olympics. Although she won three consecutive championships at the All Japan Championships in January, she said, "As a feeling (of competition), I've come back, but I'm still in a dark tunnel and haven't fully resurrected." Therefore, I focused more on the issues at hand than on the grades. I also feel definitely stronger than I did at the Paris Olympics. Although it is painful,

But if you don't run away, the possibility of achieving your goal is enough. According to Japanese media, the world No. 7 ace is looking forward to returning to his former glory on the big stage.