SINGAPORE - Pop star Katy Perry sings in her song Firework that "after a hurricane comes a rainbow", and that would also be the ethos that guides Japan's women's table tennis world No. 3 Mima Ito ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan received its first gold medal in table tennis mixed doubles as the host country’s team smashed China’s winning streak. A ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese medal favourite Mima Ito outplayed her Portuguese rival on Tuesday to move into the final 16 of the Olympic women's singles table tennis competition. The world number two, ...

For only the second time since 1992, a country besides China has claimed gold in an Olympic table tennis event. Japan's Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito interrupted China’s decades-long run of dominance in ...

Japan's Mizutani Jun and Ito Mima rallied after losing the first two sets to China's Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, taking the next three sets by close margins (11-8, 11-9, 11-9) to move one set away from the ...

Fifteen-year-old Miwa Harimoto secured the final spot for the women’s national table tennis team for the 2024 Paris Olympics, being selected over Olympic medalist Mima Ito. The Japan Table Tennis ...

(Reuters) - Japan's Mima Ito is not intimidated by China's formidable table tennis reputation in Olympics and the 15-year-old paddler will head to next month's Rio Games determined to make her mark.

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s Zeng Jian registered the biggest win of her career when she stunned Japan’s world No. 9 Mima Ito 3-2 (6-11, 12-10, 5-11, 14-12, 11-9) in the round of 32 at the World Table ...

TAIPEI (AFP) – Twelve-year-old Japanese table tennis prodigy Mima Ito has set her sights on challenging China's hegemony at the next Olympics after once again wowing audiences in Taiwan. Ito won the ...

So let's start with the outlier, as Japan won mixed doubles behind Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito, winners of three other medals on home soil. China won the first two sets in the best-of-seven series but ...