On June 30, the WTT Regular Challenge Tunisia ended, the Japanese table tennis team won all five championships in this tournament, Tomokazu Zhang won the mixed doubles, men's doubles, and men's singles triple crown, and Miwa Zhang won the women's singles championship.
The Tunisia Challenger is a blessed place for Japan, who had a very good result last year. In this year's competition, close to the Paris Olympics, many teams, including the national table tennis team, did not participate, Japan is still the main force, and the pair of Tomokazu Haramoto/Hina Hayada are striving to win the mixed doubles championship and retain the hope of competing for the second place in the mixed doubles world. In the Mixed Doubles final, Tomokazu Harimoto/Hina Hayada defeated Sweden's Carlsen/C. Carlberg 3-2 in five games to win the Mixed Doubles final against Sweden's Carlsen/C. Carlberg 8-11, 13-11, 12-10, 6-11, 11-7, and their battle for World No. 2 in the Mixed Doubles against Korea's Lim Jong-hoon/Shin Yu-bin will be reserved for the WTT Star Challenge in Bangkok on 2 July. The Bangkok Star Challenge is the final international competition before the Paris Olympics, with eight mixed doubles pairs competing in preparation for the Games.
In this competition, 6 members of the Japanese team broke into the men's singles quarterfinals. Tomokazu Zhangmoto, who is a three-athlete, has suffered consecutive civil wars since the quarterfinals, and he defeated Ruiki Kagawa 3-2 to enter the semifinals; Defeated Teruku Matsushima 3-2 to advance to the final. In the men's singles final, Tomokazu Zhang and Yukiya Uda played seven games, and finally won 9-11, 11-7, 9-11, 11-6, 11-7, 4-11, 11-9, and won the championship by two points in the deciding game. Before the men's singles final, Zhang and his partner Teruku Matsushima defeated Chinese Taipei's Feng Yixin/Huang Yancheng 3-0 in straight games 11-9, 11-6, 11-5 to win the men's doubles title.
Tomokazu Zhang also became the triple crown winner of this competition. Perhaps because of the three-sport and back-to-back fights, Tomokazu Zhang requested a medical timeout before the start of the men's singles final tiebreaker, and he eventually reached the men's singles top with an injury. With less than a month to go until the Paris Olympics, preventing injuries and illnesses is a top priority for every athlete.
Like her brother Tomokazu Haramoto, who reached the top podium in singles, her younger sister Miwa Haramoto successfully defended her women's singles title with a 4-0 victory over teammate Satsuki Oto 12-10, 11-8, 11-8, 11-3 in the women's singles final. Satsuki Oto partnered Sakura Yokoi to win the Women's Doubles title with a 3-0 victory over India's Chitale/Golpad 11-9, 11-8, 11-3, and Japan also won all five titles in the tournament.
After winning the championship, the Zhang brothers and sisters took a selfie with the championship trophy in their hands, and also took a group photo with their father. Tomokazu Haramoto will compete in the mixed doubles, men's singles and men's team at the Paris Olympics, and his sister Miwa Haramoto will compete in the women's team.