Today i was training with my coach Hidetoshi OYA as usual on Thursday in the local gymnasium. Misaki MORIZONO showed up. The other day it was FOERSTER (MIZUTANI ex-coach) training with Hibiki TAZOE. The venue is getting popular with pro players as well !
BTW, i knew coach OYA was very strong, but I only discovered recently how AWESOME he is. His online bios don't make him justice. And he's always been too modest to tell me.
his WIKI page
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/大矢英俊
mentions he won gold in Team Junior in WTTC in 2005, but actually he was on the bench on that year and didn't play any match...
The site mentions that on the next year he won Bronze in Junior WTTC 2006 (Cairo) in Singles and Doubles. But WIKI doesn't mention he won Silver in the Team event, and he actually won all his matches in the Team event, including against China (JIANG Haiyang).
https://results.ittf.link/index.php...resetfilters=0&clearordering=0&clearfilters=0
https://tabletennis-reference.com/player/matches/72/150
Some of his victims have become stronger and/or more famous than him:
singles : Paul DRINKHALL, CHIANG Hung Chieh (Ai FUKUHARA's future husband)
team: Stefen MENGELL,
LEE Sang Su.
Wow, it feels even more amazing to be lucky to have a world champ to play with me (nearly) every week !