Mima Ito

Mima Ito
Nationality  Japan
Born (2000-10-21) 21 October 2000
Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan[1]
Playing style Right-handed, Shakehand grip, Counter Driver
Equipment(s) Nittaku Acoustic Carbon, Nittaku Moristo SP, Nittaku Fastarc G-1
Highest ranking 9 (June 2015, March 2016, July - August 2016)
Current ranking 9 (August 2016)[2]
Medal record
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
World Championships
2016 Kuala Lumpur Team
World Junior Championships
2013 Rabat Team
ITTF World Tour
2014 German Open Doubles
2014 Spain Open Doubles
2014 Bangkok Grand Finals Doubles
2015 German Open Singles
2015 Belarus Open Singles
2015 Korea Open Doubles

Mima Ito (伊藤 美誠 Itō Mima) (born 21 October 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player.[3][4]

Career

At the age of ten, she became the youngest person to win a match at the Japanese senior table tennis championships[1][5] and the youngest person to win an ITTF Junior Circuit tournament.[6] At eleven she defeated the player ranked 50th in the world at the time.[7]At the age of 14, she moved in June 2015 for the first time into the Top 10 in the world rankings before by repressed Han Ying and Chen Meng, reaching World Rank No. 9.

In March 2014 she, together with Miu Hirano, won the doubles' title at German Open. They were both 13 at the time. Thus they became the youngest-ever winners of a doubles competition in the ITTF World Tour.[8][9]

In April 2014 she won again with Miu Hirano, a double title at the ITTF World Tour in Spain.[10]

In December 2014 she won again the doubles with Miu Hirano at the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Bangkok against the Singaporean partnership Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu, and at that moment Miu Hirano and Mima Ito became the youngest players winning the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals.[11] In March 2015 she won, after beating Shan Xiaona, Che Xiaoxi and Feng Tianwei, the singles' title at German Open against Petrissa Solja.[12] On the 5th July 2015 Mima Ito and Miu Hirano won the Women’s Doubles title at the ITTF World Tour on the Korea Open in the city of Incheon.[13]

In December 2015 the 2015 ITTF Star Awards, a Breakthrough Star Award presented by TMS International was given out to Japan’s Mima Ito.[14]

In September 2015, it was announced that she would be part of the Japanese national team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[15] At 15 years of age, she won the bronze medal for Japan, where she won the last and important game against Feng Tianwei (Ranked 4th in the world), with 3-0 in sets for the Japanese women's table tennis team with Ai Fukuhara and Kasumi Ishikawa.[16] With her bronze medal in Rio, she broke another record for the youngest Olympic table tennis player to win a medal in the Women's Team category.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 "８年後に五輪　狙う小５　伊藤美誠（卓球）". The Asahi Shimbun Digital. 2012-01-26. Archived from the original on 2012-01-26. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  2. ↑ "World Ranking - ITO Mima". ITTF. Retrieved 2015-04-27.
  3. ↑ "Most table tennis counter hits in one minute". Guinness World Records Limited. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
    "Japan's 12-year-old table tennis prodigy eyes Olympics". 2013-07-29. Retrieved 2013-04-28.
    "Elfjährige Japanerin mischt Tischtennis-Szene auf - Wunderkind Mima Ito". Krone.at. 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  4. ↑ "Table tennis - Junior World Championships - Women's Team 2013 season results". The-sports.org. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  5. ↑ "TABLE TENNIS / The kids are all right -- grade-schoolers tearing up pingpong tables". Asahi Shimbun. 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2014-02-26.
  6. ↑ "12-year-old Mima ITO was the hero in Taipei". European Table Tennis Union. 2013-07-28. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  7. ↑ "Tischtennis: Elfjährige besiegt Nummer 50 der Welt". Spiegel Online. 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  8. ↑ "Table Tennis Japanese 13-year-olds make history at German Open". Sport Asia. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  9. ↑ "13 Year Old Japanese Duo Create History on the ITTF World Tour". Around The Rings. 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
  10. ↑ "Maturity Beyond Years, Miu Hirano and Mima Ito Repeat Magdeburg Success". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2014-06-04. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  11. ↑ "At A Glance: Japanese Teenagers Create History in Bangkok". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2014-12-13. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  12. ↑ http://www.mytischtennis.de/public/buntes/5795/das-rekordkind--mima-ito-auf-dem-weg-zum-olympiasieg
  13. ↑ "Gold for Miu Hirano and Mima Ito, Youngest Final Ever". Ian Marshall, ITTF Publications Editor. 2015-07-05. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  14. ↑ "Teenager Ito earns table tennis accolade". Kyodo, The Japan Times. 2015-12-11. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  15. ↑ "Mima Ito Nominated For Rio 2016". Romina Concha, tabletennista.com. 2015-10-20. Retrieved 2016-04-26.
  16. ↑ "Japan women earn bronze". the-japan-news.com. 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-08-17.
  17. ↑ "Rising Star: Mima Ito continues to break records with bronze medal". Simon Daish, new.ittf.com. 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
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