Challenging Japan's women's singles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time in 56 years, Hina Hayata: The competition starts here

Japan's Hina Hayada faced off against Chinese players with the goal of winning the women's singles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time in 56 years, and mustered up her energy before the battle. Hina Hayata, who has been leading the Japanese women's table tennis team for many years as a sister, recently defeated China's Shi Xunyao, who is ranked 23rd in the world, in the quarterfinals of the women's singles at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha and reached the quarterfinals.

Hina Hayata, who was happy to win the game

In this match with Shi Xunyao, Shi Xunyao took the initiative through strong play in the early stage, which also made Hina Hayada fall behind for the first time in this World Table Tennis Championships, but in the second half, Hina's forehand that Hayada is good at bursting, directly killing the suspense of the game. Hina Hayata, who reached the quarterfinals, is one win away from winning the women's singles medal at the last World Table Tennis Championships in Durban for the second consecutive World Table Tennis Championships, and her next match will be against another Chinese player, Chen Xingtong. In the last 3 meetings, Hina Hayada has lost all of them, but they have all dragged the game into a tiebreaker.

Before this match, Hina Hayada left a message on Instagram to express her gratitude to her fans, "Thank you to everyone who supported me on TV" "The race starts here. I'll try." According to the analysis of the Japanese media, Hina Hayada wrote this sentence in the context of the battle.

In the quarterfinals of the women's singles of this World Table Tennis Championships, China and Japan each occupy half of the country, and the next four women's singles quarterfinals are all Sino-Japanese matchups. According to Japanese media, Hina Hayata, Miwa Zhangmoto, Misei Ito, and Satsuki Oto will challenge the women's singles gold medal at the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time in 56 years.