The singles draw for the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha was announced, and Japan challenged strong opponents in the men's singles and women's singles

On April 30, the draw for each event of the 2025 Doha World Table Tennis Championships was held in Doha, Qatar. This year's World Table Tennis Championships will be held on May 17th ~ 25th, and the participants are all players who have won in the continental championships and qualifiers on all continents. According to the signing table, this tournament has a total of 5 events in men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, with 128 players in men's and women's singles, and 64 pairs of players in men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles.

Japan's top men's player Tomokazu Haramoto is the No. 4 seed in the men's singles at the 2025 World Table Tennis Championships in Doha

Since Seiji Ono was crowned king at the 1979 World Table Tennis Championships in Pyongyang, the Japanese table tennis men's team has challenged the men's singles medal at the World Table Tennis Championships again after 46 years. The team has the tournament's fourth-seeded player, world No. 4 Tomokazu Zhangmoto. Looking at the draw, Tomokazu Zhang will not face two Chinese players before the semi-finals, world No. 1 Lin Shidong and No. 2 Wang Chuqin, which increases his chances of winning a medal. On the other hand, Jang Benzhih's opponent in the first match was the left-handed player Lim Jong-hoon of the Korean men's team. If the Japanese table tennis brother reaches the third round, it is possible that there will be a civil war with Hayasuke Togami. Men's singles world No. 21 Japanese table tennis brother Shinozuka Daito will play the first match with the Chinese teamA right-handed straight board horizontal playerXue Fei met.

At the last 2023 World Table Tennis Championships in Durban, Hina Hayada won the bronze medal in women's singles for the Japanese table tennis women's team. In the women's singles competition, where the Japanese team aims to win two consecutive World Table Tennis Championships medals, five players will work together in the women's singles competition, including Miwa Haramoto, ranked 6th, Hina Hayata, ranked 7th, Satsuki Oto, ranked 8th, Misei Ito, ranked 9th, and Miu Hirano, ranked 18th. Japanese media said that although the Japanese team has 4 women's singles players who can enter the top 10 in the world rankings, because the Chinese team occupies the position of the No. 1~4 seeded players, in each quarter, if the Japanese players do not cross the "Chinese wall", they will not be able to win the women's singles medal at the World Table Tennis Championships.

The first sister of Japanese table tennis, Zhang Benmeihe, participated in the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships team competition for the first time at the age of 15 and won the silver medal. This is her first time participating in the World Table Tennis Championships.

Competing in the women's singles at the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time, Miwa Zhang may meet second seed and 2021 World Table Tennis Championships singles champion Wang Manyu in the quarter-finals, but she will need to take on last year's Asian Championships women's singles champion Kim Qin-young of North Korea in the third round. Jang Ben-mi was runner-up in the women's singles final at the Asian Championships, but she hopes to add energy to her match against Wang Manyu through this revenge match.

Hina Hayata, who aims to win the women's singles medal at the World Table Tennis Championships again after the previous one, may face China's Shi Xunyao in the fourth round of this World Table Tennis Championships, and her imaginary opponent in the quarterfinals is Chinese star Chen Xingtong. Japanese media said that Hina Hayata's left arm injury has recovered a lot, and it is very likely to break the Chinese team in a row. Satsuki Oto, who is making his career debut at the World Table Tennis Championships, may meet Miu Hirano in the round of 16, and the winner between the two will face world No. 1 sister Sun Yingsha in the quarter-finals.