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We had this weekend the 第60回全日本社会人卓球選手権大会


ie the Zennihon "shakaijin" which means only adults are allowed except (middle/high school & uni etc) students. [btw The Zennihon university student was also this weekend]

This tournament is a bit strange, is there such a category anywhere else in the world ?
In practice its like a B national championships as the top players snob it (Harimoto; Matsushima; Mizutani....] but still many pro , T-leaguers; Nihon-Leaguers; and semi pro like corporate team players attend it; and if you look at the list of recent winners its only famous players, and it even awards a ticket to the winner to participate in JNT selection tournaments.

Single winner : (Men) MATSUSHITA Taisei and (Women) NAGAO Akiko

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Last week there was the veteran championships called (JTTA) MASTERS, not many former pros participate.the level is much lower than the Shakaijin.

in the strong 30+ category, the final opposed 2 YouTubers, Tokkun (Tokushima) to Yuji (Sakurai) 3-1
Tokkun is a former doubles Shakaijin champion (!!) and kept his title from last year. Amazingly I saw Tokkun defeat in doubles in the Tokyo qualification tournament for Zennihon the Yoshimura bros; only to fail to qualify in the next decisive match to a uni team.
 
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If you happen to catch this, Japan XD in SF of Youth Olympic Games ... Miku Matsushima / Ryuusei Kawakami against Team Taiwan. Japan already beat the top seed China (Li Hechen/Yao Ruixuan) in the QF.

[Edit] Japan wins 3-1 and will face Hong Kong (Li Ki Ho/Su Tsz Tung) in the Finals scheduled for 11/3 18:30 local time Dakar, Senegal

 
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