1 week Ago By Mike Chan
Despite Japan failing to take advantage of the Chinese sending a depleted line-up to a tournament in South Korea last week, Sun Yingsha, China’s best women’s table tennis player, has warned of the rising danger posed by the country’s closest rivals. China last week sent essentially a second-string team – one without five of their top 10 men’s and women’s players – to the WTT Champions Incheon event last week. While China had two men and three women – compared with one and three from Japan – in the quarter-finals at the INSPIRE Arena, they still managed to win both singles events.
And while China still enjoys a slight edge over Japan at the top of the women’s rankings – the two countries fill up nine of the top 10 spots – Sun was taking nothing for granted. “For sure, in many more competitions, many more young Japanese players are coming up,” the world No 1 said. “Most of the top 10 players, other than the Chinese, are from Japan.
“They are playing much more internationally, and we have more chances to play against them or to watch them play..
