Mima Ito

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Mima Ito
Nationality  Japan
Born (2000-10-21) 21 October 2000 (age 24)
Shizuoka Prefecture[1]
Playing style Right-handed, Shakehand grip, Counter Driver
Equipment(s) Nittaku Acoustic Carbon, Nittaku Moristo SP, Nittaku Fastarc G-1
Highest ranking 9 (June 2015)
Current ranking 11 (December 2015)[2]

Mima Ito (伊藤 美誠 Itō Mima?) (born 21 October 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player.[3][4]

At the age of ten, she became the youngest person to win a match at the Japanese senior table tennis championships[1][5] and the youngest person to win an ITTF Junior Circuit tournament.[6] At eleven she defeated the player ranked 50th in the world at the time.[7]At the age of 14, she moved in June 2015 for the first time into the Top 10 in the world rankings before by repressed Han Ying and Chen Meng, reaching World Rank No.9.

In March 2014 she, together with Miu Hirano, won the doubles' title at German Open. They were both 13 at the time. Thus they became the youngest-ever winners of a doubles competition in the ITTF World Tour.[8][9]

In April 2014 she won again with Miu Hirano, a double title at the ITTF World Tour in Spain.[10]

In Dezember 2014 she won again the doubles with Miu Hirano at the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Bangkok against the Singaporean partnership Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyuand, at that moment Miu Hirano and Mima Ito became the youngest players winning the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals.[11] In March 2015 she won, after beating Shan Xiaona, Che Xiaoxi and Feng Tianwei, the singles' title at German Open against Petrissa Solja.[12] On the 5th July 2015 Mima Ito and Miu Hirano won the Women’s Doubles title at the ITTF World Tour on the Korea Open in the city of Incheon.[13]

In Dezember 2015 the 2015 ITTF Star Awards, a Breakthrough Star Award presented by TMS International was given out to Japan’s Mima Ito.[14]

In September 2015 it was announced that she will be part of the Japanese National Team at the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio.[15]

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