Teen star Ito leads Japan to team table tennis bronze
Fifteen-year-old Mima Ito showed the composure of a veteran to lead Japan's women to the table tennis team bronze medal at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday with a 3-1 win over Singapore. Japan, which missed out on the chance to win gold when it lost ...
Table tennis star Fukuhara warms Chinese hearts at Olympics
Ai Fukuhara will have the support of a nation when Japan takes on Singapore for the women's table tennis team bronze medal at the Rio Olympics on Tuesday — plus a Chinese public that has taken the 27-year-old to its heart. Japan faces Singapore having ...
Japanese women lose against Germany in table tennis semifinals
The Japanese women's table tennis team missed out on a second successive trip to the Olympic final after being outlasted 3-2 by Germany at the Rio Games on Sunday. Four of the five matches went to five games and while the Japanese team received a ...
Japan took one more major step toward a Rio 2016 women's team table tennis medal with a 3-0 quarterfinal win over Austria on Saturday. Earlier in the day, the Japan men's team struggled and required all five matches, but got through Poland thanks to Jun ...
Ai Fukuhara had one of the best wins of her career Tuesday, beating world No. 4 Feng Tianwei in straight games to move into the Rio Olympics women's singles semifinals. Later in the day, countryman Jun Mizutani got past Marcos Freitas to progress to the ...
Japan got its Rio Games back on track in the table tennis competition on Monday, with three of the country's medal hopes progressing — a welcome change after Kasumi Ishikawa's shock loss a day earlier. Koki Niwa had the banner performance of the day, beating ...
Table tennis 'sisters' hoping to grab gold for Japan
“The three sisters” are all different in terms of age and personality. What they have in common, however, are places on the strongest women’s table tennis squad Japan has ever dispatched.
Ai Fukuhara and Kasumi Ishikawa both qualified for the women's singles at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics based on the latest rankings released by the International Table Tennis Federation on Thursday. Jun Mizutani and Koki Niwa also secured their berths in the men's singles as ...
Table tennis standout Hirano drops final match of distinguished career
Five-time national table tennis champion Sayaka Hirano brought down the curtain on her career Saturday after she was defeated in her first women's singles match at the Japan Table Tennis League Big Tournament. Hirano, 31, who last month announced she was retiring after the tournament, ...
Ai Fukuhara's bid to win her first national title in three years ended on Friday with a sixth-round defeat. With the exception of last year — when she did not compete — Fukuhara had reached the quarterfinals every year since 2010. But in an up-and-down ...
Hometown favorite Ai Fukuhara crashed out of the table tennis Women's World Cup quarterfinals on Saturday, throwing away a three-game lead to lose to low-ranked German opponent Petrissa Solja, 4-3. The world No. 4 Fukuhara looked like she would breeze through after going up 3-0 ...
Ai Fukuhara and Kasumi Ishikawa enter the 2015 table tennis World Cup in career-best form, putting them in the best-possible position to end China's longtime grip on the tournament, which begins Friday in Sendai. Fukuhara, who was born in Sendai, says she will be doing ...
