The Zhang brothers and sisters are looking forward to the early opening of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, and the Japanese team is ambitious

The biennial World Table Tennis Championships will open in Doha on the 17th. Japanese media said on the 15th that this season is a new season for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games, and the performance of the Japanese team at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, with the Paris Olympics as the center and young players as the main players, is expected.

Japanese table tennis brother Zhang Benzhi participated in the team's open training on the 7th

In the men's event, world No. 4 Tomokazu Harimoto will make his debut on the podium in singles. In the men's singles final of last year's Asian Table Tennis Championships, Tomokazu Zhang defeated the current world No. 1 Chinese star Lin Shidong to win the event for the Japanese team for the first time in 50 years. In this World Table Tennis Championships, Tomokazu Zhang will face South Korean rival Lim Jong-hoon with a record of 4-3 in the first round of men's singles. In this regard, Zhang Benzhihe said with a serious expression: "There is no easy game, I will work hard." ”

Miwa Zhangmoto, who is currently ranked 6th in the world in women's singles

Tomokazu Zhangmoto's younger sister and 16-year-old first sister of Japanese table tennis Zhang Benmei is participating in the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time. After winning the silver medal in the women's team at the Paris Olympics, Miwa Zhang also made a leap forward in the singles competition with a powerful backhand shot. The sense of stability of the competition is increasing, and this World Table Tennis Championships even put forward the tough goal of "all three events participating in the championship are aiming for gold medals".

The 18-year-old Matsushima reached a new high of No. 19 in the men's singles world rankings

Hina Hayata, the bronze medallist in women's singles at the last World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, is recovering from a left wrist injury. Although he was still uneasy, he was still in the spotlight preparing for the fight with his teammates Miu Hirano and Misei Ito. At the Los Angeles Olympics, table tennis men's and women's doubles competitions will be held again for the first time in six years. The Japanese pair of Satsuki Oto/Sakura Yokoi, who are currently ranked No. 1 in the women's doubles world, will challenge for the title for the first time at this World Table Tennis Championships. In mixed doubles, Miwa Zhang and Teruma Matsushima, who have grown significantly in the singles match, will play together, and Japanese media say that the two can become a pair that can show explosive power.