The first sister of Japanese table tennis, Zhang Benmeihe, participated in the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, and she played three events alone

The draw results of the 2025 Doha World Table Tennis Championships, which opened on the 18th of this month, were announced on the 1st. According to the signing table, the first sister of Japanese table tennis in this tournament, who will play in the women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles events, will face the 2018 European Table Tennis Championships runner-up and Ukraine's Margarita Bisotska in the first match of the women's singles.

The first sister of Japanese table tennis, Miwa Zhangmoto

Although she is only 16 years old, she is the highest-ranked player in the world in the Japanese women's table tennis team and is currently ranked No. 6 in the world in women's singles. If she can make it through the first two rounds of the World Table Tennis Championships, she will meet North Korea's Kim Eun-young, a mixed doubles silver medallist at the Paris Olympics who lost in the Asian Championships final last October, in the third round.

At the age of 15, Zhang Benmeihe participated in the team competition of the 24th World Table Tennis Championships for the first time and won the silver medal with the team. This is her first time participating in the individual competition of the World Table Tennis Championships. She will also compete in mixed doubles with Miyu Kihara's Women's Doubles and Teruma Matsushima.

In the women's singles, world No. 7 Hina Hayada faced Romania's Adina Diaconu in the opening match. At the last 2023 World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, Hina Hayada won the women's singles bronze medal for the Japanese team for the first time in 58 years. Satsuki Oto, ranked No. 8 in the world and competing in three events at this World Table Tennis Championships, will face Chile's Bega in the first round of the women's singles, world No. 9 Misei Ito will face Puerto Rico's Brugos (Puerto Rico) in the first round, and world No. 18 Miu Hirano will face Luxembourg in the first roundSarahDenut.

In men's singles, world No. 4 Tomokazu Zhang will face South Korea's Lim Jong-hoon in the first match of the men's singles at this World Table Tennis Championships. Tomokazu Zhangmoto, the first brother of Japanese table tennis, participated in 2017 as early as 13 years oldDusseldorfWorld Table Tennis Championships Single Competition, this is his fifth appearance in the World Table Tennis Championships Individual Competition, and he challenged the first medal in singles in the individual competition of the World Table Tennis Championships. In addition, Tomokazu Haramoto will also play in the men's doubles match with Teruku Matsushima. Paris Olympics representatives Hayasuke Togami and Shinozuka Daito, team silver medalist Maharu Yoshimura and 36-year-old Kenji Matsudaira at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics will also participate in the men's singles competition at the World Table Tennis Championships.