Japanese players swept the singles events at the inaugural World Table Tennis Star Contender tournament in Doha on Saturday, with Mima Ito winning the women's title before 17-year-old prodigy Tomokazu Harimoto claimed the men's crown. With Chinese players staying home because of concerns about the ...
Mima Ito aiming for gold with or without fans at Tokyo Games
Ito said she's ready to play without fans at the Tokyo Olympics, as long as it means the games can go ahead.
Kasumi Ishikawa holds off fellow Olympian Mima Ito for Japan title
Kasumi Ishikawa came from behind to beat fellow Tokyo Olympian Mima Ito in the national championships' women's singles final on Sunday to end a four-tournament winless drought. Ishikawa, ranked ninth in the world, trailed the world No. 3 Ito three games to one, but snatched ...
Table tennis star Mima Ito taking Tokyo 2020 delay in stride
Table tennis star Mima Ito was disappointed by the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, because it took away the chance to reach her goal of winning a gold medal as a teenager. Other than that, Ito, who will turn 20 ...
Left in limbo: Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls struggle with postponement
Tokyo's Olympic dream is still alive — for now — but many athletes have been left wondering if their hard work will all be for nothing.
Mima Ito climbs to No. 2 in world rankings, Japan's highest ever
Mima Ito has climbed to second in the women's singles world rankings, achieving the highest position ever held by a Japanese table tennis player, male or female, since the current system began in 1991, according to the ITTF's listing for April released Thursday. "I'll do ...
Tomokazu Harimoto and Mima Ito each claimed their first titles of the ITTF World Tour season at the Hungarian Open in Budapest on Sunday. Harimoto, the world No. 5, defeated Yukiya Uda 4-1 in an all-Japanese men's singles final at Budapest Olympic Hall after the ...
Tomokazu Harimoto, Mima Ito headline Japan's 2020 table tennis squad
The Japan Table Tennis Association announced Monday the six players who will represent the Olympic host nation at the 2020 Tokyo Games. The men's team consists of world No. 5 Tomokazu Harimoto, No. 15 Koki Niwa and No. 16 Jun Mizutani, while the women's team ...
Mima Ito captures first singles title of season on World Tour
Table tennis star Mima Ito defeated the former women's singles world No. 1 to capture her first title on this year's International Table Tennis Federation World Tour at the Austria Open on Sunday. Ito, ranked seventh in the world, beat China's Zhu Yuling 4-1 in ...
Mima Ito, Hina Hayata come up short in final at world championships
FP-JIJI Mima Ito and Hina Hayata finished as runners-up at the table tennis world championships on Sunday, losing the women's doubles final against China's Wang Manyu and Sun Yingsha 4-2. Ito and Hayata, bronze medalists at the last world championships in 2017, were attempting to become ...
Hina Hayata, Mima Ito prevail in all-Japan semifinal at worlds
Hina Hayata and Mima Ito became the first Japanese women's doubles pair in 48 years to reach the table tennis world championship finals with a victory over compatriots Honoka Hashimoto and Hitomi Sato on Saturday. Hayata and Ito, who claimed bronze at the last worlds ...
Mima Ito completes second triple crown at national championships
Mima Ito became the first table tennis player to win three titles for two consecutive years at Japan's national championships after beating Miyu Kihara 4-1 in Sunday's women's singles final at Maruzen Intec Arena Osaka. Ito posted a 13-11, 11-9, 11-6, 9-11, 11-5 win over ...
