04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Mainichi
Table tennis: Miu Hirano to join Super League in China
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Miu Hirano is joining the Chinese Table Tennis Super League, the Paris Olympian posted on her Instagram on Wednesday.
"I'm really happy to participate with Shenzhen University. I'll do my best," the 25-year-old said of her new team, which counts the reigning two-time women's singles world champion Sun Yingsha among its members.
Hirano made a second-round exit at the worlds in May in Qatar and later revealed she will be involved less frequently in Japan national team activities.
"I want to take on table tennis with a different, renewed mindset. I want to change my environment," she said upon her return to Japan after the tournament.
Hirano first played in the Super League in 2016 when she was 16, representing Ordos 1980.
She won team silver with Japan both at the Tokyo Games in 2021 and in Paris.
