From WTT Official
At the World Table Tennis Championships held on the 20th in Busan, South Korea, Brazil, which is in the same group as Japan, defeated Iran 3-0 in the fourth match of the first championship in women’s teams. After Japan, who took the lead with a series of 4 consecutive victories, they advanced to the final phase with a record of 3 victories and 1 defeat.
By advancing to the round of 16 of the World Table Tennis Team Tournament, they will earn the right to participate in the Paris Olympics as a team and earn two Olympic singles berths. The tournament is held in such a way that the team that wins 3 out of 5 singles matches wins, and in the first round 40 men’s and women’s teams are divided into 8 groups and compete against each other. 24 teams will enter the final phase, the top three in each group. Additionally, the top eight teams in each group will be seeded in the first round of the finals and will advance to the second round (the top 16).
Brazil, aiming to participate in the team competition for the third time in a row, defeated South Africa 3-0 in their first league match and started by winning. In the second match, they won their second consecutive victory against Luxembourg 3-2. The third match was a “win-win showdown” against Japan, but they lost 0–3, losing first place in their group.
Then, in the fourth match, they faced Iran. Bruna, the Brazilian national ace of the third-generation Japanese-American Takahashi sisters, won the first match 3-1, and her younger sister Julia also won the second match 3-1. In the third match, Alexandre, who had been a hot topic during the match against Japan as a one-armed player, won a close match 3-2, and the team won in straight sets. They advanced to the final tournament in second place behind Japan with three wins and one defeat.
Alexandre, who won her second consecutive silver medal in the women’s singles (10th position) at the Tokyo Paralympic Games, lost to Hirano in the match against Japan, but had a good record of 3 wins and 1 loss in the first round of the women’s tournament. team competition in this tournament. In the second match against Luxembourg, the Takahashi sisters lost consecutive matches and found themselves in a situation where they had nothing left to do, and won the third match 3–1, greatly contributing to the team’s comeback victory. He also became a notable presence in the final stage of the tournament.
1st place Japan 4 wins, 0 losses, 8 points
2nd place Brazil 3 wins, 1 defeat, 7 points
3rd place Luxembourg 2 wins, 2 losses, 6 points
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4th place Iran 1 win, 3 losses, 5 points
5th place South Africa 0 wins, 4 losses, 4 points
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