missed the World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles gold medal after 8 years, but it cannot be denied that Yoshimura Maharu is a mixed doubles player

In the mixed doubles final of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha on the 24th local time, the Yoshimura Maharu/Satsuki Oto combination, known as the "Daji Combination", lost 1-4 to the Paris Olympics gold medal combination and China's strong Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha. So far, the Japanese team has missed the mixed doubles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time in 8 years, but won the silver medal.

Yoshimura Maharu (left), Satsuki Oto

In the first game, Yoshimura Maharu/Satsuki Oto lost 7-11, and in the second game, they also saw their opponents 8-11 in the second game. In the third game, Yoshimura Maharu/Satsuki Oto always maintained the lead and pulled one back 11-7. Japanese media said that they thought they could drag the game into a tiebreaker, but in the fourth game, Yoshimura Maharu/Oto Satsuki was reversed by the Chinese pair dominated by me and lost 8-11.

Although they missed out on the World Table Tennis Championships mixed doubles gold medal for the first time in 8 years since the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships Yoshimura Maharu/Ishikawa Kasumi combination, this year's World Table Tennis Championships Yoshimura Maharu/Satsuki Oto started from the No. 16 seed and completed the following grams one after another, and finally won the valuable silver medal only one step away from the championship.

Yoshimura Maharu / Oto Satsuki, who has the nickname of "Daikichi Combination".

Yoshimura won the mixed doubles gold medal for Japan at the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships, including the first time in 48 years, and his World Table Tennis Championships medal collection is not limited to that. The data shows that in the mixed doubles event of the World Table Tennis Championships, Yoshimura Maharu previously won the silver medal in 2015, the gold medal in 2017, and the silver medal in 2019.