Author: Shanjia
Among Japanese table tennis players, the most admired are Ai Fukuhara and Yoshinori Ishikawa. It's not how high their skills are, it's mainly about their looks. Fukuhara Ai in the national table tennis team known as "regimental pet", it is said that Chairman Liu Guoliang Liu once said that the national team who cried Fukuhara Ai, who went to coax. It can be seen that the status of Ai Fukuhara is very high.
Compared to Ai Fukuhara, I prefer the taste of Ishikawa, and I always feel that her toku dialect is not as heavy as Ai Fukuhara's taste of ballast, and her appearance is more pure. If the idol is a boy, then Ishikawa is the dish of the puppet, and this confession is no one.
Ishikawa, even if the genius girl debuts, the fate is not smooth, especially in 2019, she fell rapidly from the peak, confused, lost and depressed, where to go, became a question mark lingering in her mind...
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Yoshijun Ishikawa was born in February 1993 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, to the same parents as a table tennis player. In particular, his mother, Ishikawa Kumi, is a Japanese national player, but the results are not outstanding.
It is the nature of every parent to hope that the son will become a dragon and the daughter to become a phoenix. When Ishikawa was 1 year old, he was carried to the table by his mother. I saw her waist twist and swing a red mini racket with her left hand.
Ishikawa began to learn to play, and his mother was the coach. Soon, her athletic genes were fully revealed, and after only a few months of practice, she won the second place in the county. She was 7 years old.
Below Ishikawa, there is a younger sister, the daimyo Ishikawa Iriyoshi. Sister Ishira is 5 years old and the two play video games together, but Ishikawa never lets his sister go. Competitive people, no matter when, always want to win.
When Ishikawa was in the sixth grade of elementary school, he participated in the Japanese Table Tennis Championships and defeated high school students and college students, and was known as "a talented girl, Xiao Ai II". In the elementary school graduation book, next to the innocent and cute photo, Ishikawa wrote her goal: I want to participate in the Olympic Games. Just like Junko Fawn in the Japanese TV series "Volleyball Girl", the goal is like this.
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Ishikawa officially began his professional career at the age of 12. Some coaches evaluated her as rare as a golden egg. No, in the 2007 Japan Table Tennis Championships, Ishikawa defeated several strong opponents and reached the semifinals. Since then, she has set a record for the youngest player to reach the semi-finals, a height that Ai Fukuhara has not reached.
Since then, Ishikawa has been invincible among his peers and has ridden through the dust. The National Middle School Competition has won three consecutive championships, the National Youth Competition has won four consecutive championships, and the All-Middle and High School Students' Games have won three consecutive championships. Set one record after another and become ishikawa's label.
In 2009, at the Yokohama World Table Tennis Championships, if two more points were lost, the whole game would end, and Ishikawa successfully reversed and became famous! A young girl who created miracles, Ishikawa, was 16 years old that year.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Ishikawa lost to Singapore and chose Feng Tianwei to finish fourth in the women's singles; in the women's team final, she lost to the Chinese team and won the silver medal in the women's team. But this is the first Olympic medal in the Japanese table tennis industry, and it has also achieved a breakthrough in the Japanese table tennis Olympic Games, and the Japanese media praised Ishikawa as the "queen of table tennis".
Ishikawa returned to Yamaguchi Prefecture, took the silver medal he had harvested, sat on a float, and passed by the crowd of screaming and screaming crowds, all expecting that this girl should have a better future.
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At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Ishikawa encountered North Korean chipper Kim Song-il and was out of the cold. Ishikawa, who was known as a genius girl, folded his wings.
In January 2017, at the All Japan Table Tennis Championships, Ishikawa lost all his standards against 16-year-old high school student Miyu Hirano, and was powerless, "The more I care about winning or losing, the more afraid I am to make a change."
At this point, Ishikawa has been photographed on the beach by Gowa Hirano. How high it was held back then, how painful it is to fall now. Hirano, on the other hand, has the latest person to set up a "new genius girl".
In the tokyo olympics singles competition, there were only two places to participate. Who can be selected is determined by the points of the international competition. And Ishikawa and Hirano, the score is close, chasing deer Nakahara, deer kill who hands, this is a problem.
Again and again, Ishikawa, who seems to have lost his touch, experienced the taste of failure again and again, "I was hovering on the edge of winning and losing, and when I didn't know how to do it, my hesitation became more and more, and my panic became more and more."
In 2019, Ishikawa stood at a crossroads, wanted to give up, not willing, but moving forward, new people rose, and technological updates were difficult. I used to think that playing table tennis was my destiny, but now, I think more and more, but where to go?
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At the end of 2019, the Canada Challenge. The outcome of this match, for Ishikawa, means whether he can get a ticket to the Olympic singles competition.
At this time, Ishikawa, like a changed person, full of vitality and sharpness, "I always blamed myself when I made mistakes before, but now I tell myself that it doesn't matter, I work hard, so it doesn't matter."
Finals, facing Hirano, drew 9 in the final set. Ishikawa put aside all thoughts, just focused on returning the ball, more active, the ball did not move, the body moved first, and hit back with force. Ishikawa won, and finally could stand at the door of the singles match, and she couldn't help but cover her face with a towel and cry.
Thanks to Ishikawa for having a good sister, Li Liang, she also learned table tennis at that time, but she failed to play it and returned to school. Now, Li Liang is engaged in the work of teaching table tennis.
When Ishikawa was most wandering, Li Liang accompanied her sister and used her as a sparring partner to enlighten and relieve her sister's emotions, "If necessary, I will fully support my sister until the end."
In the end, in the face of endless pressure, Ishikawa chose to persevere, hard work is capital, calm is the label, no matter what kind of lifestyle, it is his own choice, "when you are hesitant about the future, don't forget the persistence of the past."
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On July 28, 2021, Ishikawa lost to Singapore's Yu Mengyu in the Olympic women's singles competition, and was called "out of the cold".
When Ito Mimachi was violently beaten by Sun Yingsha, the Internet was applauded. The difference between the two is that Ishikawa is low-key and humble, the ball is good, and once the game played the edge ball, the referee did not see it, but she took the initiative to reach out and admit that she lost points. And When Ito is in the game, sometimes the expression of winning the ball is not enough for her to be squealed, and it is almost flat.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Ishikawa ended with a team silver medal, and she said: The Chinese team is too strong and is satisfied with the result of winning the silver medal. The voice on the Internet is all a tribute to this sweet-looking Ishikawa, hoping that she will find a Chinese aunt after retiring. After all, Ishikawa is 28 years old and it's time to find his in-laws.
At this time, the eyes are always haunting the 2015 Suzhou World Championships, and Ishikawa deliberately ran to the scene of the competition to cheer for Ma Long. She has been looking at Marlon with affectionate eyes, the idol she has admired since childhood, handsome, cool and personable.
In an interview, Ishikawa said slightly shyly that if she chose to pair with a Chinese player, she would most like to partner with Malone. The meaningful smiles of the teammates next to him have long exposed Ishikawa's long-term heart for Malone.
After the 2016 Rio Olympics, Ma Long officially announced his girlfriend of 8 years. Some reporters also specially interviewed Ishikawa, and this atmospheric pure love girl also extended sincere blessings to Malone, and jokingly said that he was in love.
Use the most authentic words, laugh and ridicule your truest emotions, don't want to deny it, don't want to forget...
Take a few old photos and feel the ecstasy of ishikawa beauty in the face of idol Malone, just like the Irish poet Roy. Clifford, as he once said in Love—
I love you, not only because of the way you look, but also because of the way I am with you...