ITTF Official Ai Xuanfukuhara will be appointed as the General Manager of WTT World Table Tennis Federation Japan, and his main responsibilities include hosting WTT Japan events, promoting sponsorship and the healthy development of table tennis, and promoting the sale of table tennis media rights. I believe that with the influence of Ai Fukuhara in the Japanese table tennis world, he has won the position of general manager, and has not worked since returning to Japan after his divorce, only occasionally guest commentators, and now becomes the "general manager" of the International Table Tennis Federation in Japan.
Ai Fukuhara is a prominent figure in the Japanese table tennis world, and although she has not won a world championship in her 20-year career, her influence far exceeds that of the current world champions Miyu Hirano and Yoshinori Ishikawa. Since learning to play table tennis at the age of 3, 13-year-old Ai Fukuhara has reached the final four of the Japan Table Tennis Championships, becoming the youngest Japanese women's singles final four, and at the age of 15, she reached the top 8 women's singles at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, France, becoming the leader of the Japanese women's team.
Ai Fukuhara won six world championship team medals after becoming famous, but her singles results were lackluster, except for her first participation in the World Table Tennis Championships in 2003 to reach the top 8 women's singles, Fukuhara Ai no longer has a world championship women's singles top 8 record. In the 2006 World Cup, Ai Fukuhara won a bronze medal in women's singles, the only time she won a medal in women's singles. Ai Fukuhara participated in four Olympic Games, in Athens and Beijing Olympic Games early out, the London Olympic Games led the Japanese women's team to win the first silver medal, rio Olympics accidentally lost to the German team in the semi-finals of the women's team, only won the bronze medal, failed to meet the final with the Chinese team, fortunately, Fukuhara Ai's farewell battle women's singles competition still reached the final four, although she failed to be delisted, it was still her best singles Olympic performance.
Ai Fukuhara's popularity is not only extremely high in Japan, there are also many fans in China, Ai Fukuhara and many national table tennis players are good friends, and the best relationship with her is Liu Shiwen, no matter Liu Shiwen's lows or peaks, there is always Fukuhara Ai's continuous attention and encouragement. With the national table tennis Grand Slam Wang Nan is also like the big sister and little sister, Wang Nan also asked Fukuhara Ai to go to the home as a guest, chat about the program together, talk about the past as an athlete. Although Ai Fukuhara repeatedly ran into a wall in front of Chinese players during her athlete period, she did not have a grudge with the national table tennis team and was still a good friend.
Table tennis in addition to China, japan's mass base is the strongest, the recent Japanese championships have 900 people registered, but also the emergence of a lot of talented teenagers under the age of 15, many of them are influenced by Ai Fukuhara, early on the road of table tennis training. I believe that with players like Ai Fukuhara standing up and leading the way, it will be much easier and smoother to promote WTT events in Japan, promote the sport of table tennis, and determine the sponsor. Fukuhara Ai, who is only 34 years old this year, is young and strong, and his table tennis training also has a serious spirit, and if he can use it in his career, he must be a good hand.