Miu Hirano admitted that the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships is under great pressure: if she feels that if she can't win, she has no value

At the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships held in Doha, Japanese player Miu Hirano was upset in the women's singles round, she fainted after the game and needed to be sent to the hospital, and on the 24th local time, she finally confessed to the incident and admitted that she was under great pressure.

Miu Hirano admits to facing a lot of pressure

The 25-year-old Miu Hirano started playing table tennis at the age of 3, won the women's doubles championship on the World Tour with Misei Ito at the age of 13, and won the women's singles championship in the Table Tennis World Cup in 2016, becoming the youngest World Cup singles champion in history, and won Japan's first women's singles medal in 48 years at the World Championships in 2017.

However, Miu Hirano's record in the women's singles in recent years is not too outstanding, she in this World Championships, but also lost to Croatian player Lea Rakovac in the second round on the 19th.

Hirano did not appear again in an interview after a gap of four days, and she was quoted as saying in a Kyodo News report: "I didn't notice it at the time, but I started to hyperventilate and I couldn't move my hands and feet." At that time, I was thinking, if I tried so hard and couldn't move, it wouldn't be interesting at all. From now on, I want to put my body and mind first. ”

Miu Hirano won the bronze medal in women's singles at the 2017 World Championships

In fact, Hirano couldn't stop crying during the second round, explaining: "I'm sorry to cry in the game at this age, but even though I'm an adult, I still cry." The World Championships was a turning point for me, and I couldn't help but cry when I thought about it. "When I was playing table tennis, I always wanted to win the Olympic gold medal, and I felt that if I wanted to play table tennis, I had to aim for the Olympics, but it put a lot of pressure on me and made it difficult for me to push myself forward. I wish I could just stop thinking about the Olympics and play. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun quoted her as saying, "I don't think I'm worthwhile if I can't win." ”

She also said that after the match, people around her told her, "You've done well enough, you can stop", she admitted that she felt relieved when she heard it, "To this day, table tennis is still full of happy memories", she hopes that she will change her mentality, "Until now, I have always only wanted to win, and in competitive sports, results are the most important thing." But if I fall, everything is meaningless. ”

Hirano concluded by saying that she will not be training for the Japanese national team for the time being and will withdraw from some European competitions, but she may still play due to being selected for the national team for the United States in July.