On January 26, 2025, the 2025 All Japan Table Tennis Championships entered the final day of competition at the Tokyo Gymnasium. In a Women's Singles semi-final, world No. 6 Miwa Harimoto defeated No. 10 Mimato Ito to reach the final, which is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. local time. If she wins, she will achieve the feat of becoming the youngest women's singles champion in history at 16 years and 7 months.

World No. 6 Miwa Zhang is expected to make history

In the women's singles quarterfinals the day before (25th), Zhang Benmei was forced into a hard battle by Yui Yamazaki, but finally got through the danger. Facing the semi-finals, she said: "I think a technical correction is necessary. ”

In this semi-final with Misei Ito, Miwa Zhang completed the sweep

In this semi-final with Ito, Miwa Zhang took the lead 11-4 in the first game, and also overwhelmed 11-3 in the second game. In the third game, they also beat their opponents 11-4, and after winning 11-5 in the fourth game, they directly killed the suspense of the game.

Hina Hayata, who aims for the third consecutive women's singles championship in the tournament

In the other semi-final, Hina Hayata, aiming for a three-time winning streak, swept the fast-growing 20-year-old rising star Satsuki Oto. In this way, the women's singles final of this year's all-day tournament will be a replica of last year, when Miwa Zhang lost to Japanese table tennis sister Hina Hayada in last year's women's singles final and won the runner-up. Miwa Haramoto's older brother Tomokazu Haramoto also reached the men's semi-finals of this year's All-Japan Championships, and expectations in Japan are now high for the first time in history.