Looking forward to the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, Miu Hirano is full of energy, and the cancellation of the women's team at the next Olympics feels lonely

On the 7th, the Japanese team participating in the individual event of the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha, which opened on the 17th, held an open training camp at the Ajinomoto National Training Center in Tokyo. Japan's Miu Hirano, a silver medallist in the women's team at Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024, said energetically: "The training camp has also started, and the adjustment is very good. I hope to be confident that I can achieve good results. This is her sixth time participating in the World Table Tennis Championships. The draw of this year's World Table Tennis Championships shows that in the first round of the women's singles, there will be a fierce battle with Sara Denut (Luxembourg).

Japanese star Miu Hirano

Table tennis has undergone a change of course at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. Among them, the women's team, which has won medals for four consecutive years, disappeared along with the men's team event, and the mixed team was added, and the men's and women's doubles events returned to the Olympic stage. Miu Hirano said frankly, "The women's team event is one of the most memorable competitions that I have always participated in and won medals, so it was a bit lonely to not have that event. Regarding the addition of the mixed team event, she said, "I think there is also a new kind of fun, so it is a very good thing to change, and there is a mood that looks interesting."