Late at night on February 18th, Beijing time, the domestic self-media platform Xiaohongshu went viral and reported that the latest big star in the table tennis world - Japanese table tennis player Miu Hirano and Taiwanese handsome Lin Yunru are likely to have a relationship. According to the progress of fans' digging, the two were found to be following each other on Instagram, Weibo and Xiaohongshu accounts. Miu Hirano seemed to have canceled her Xiaohongshu account overnight on the night of the 18th. Sibling love, another male falling in love with a Japanese girl? Some Chinese netizens exclaimed - I am shocked for ten thousand years.
Both of them are currently participating in the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, and they are the thighs and main players of their respective teams. As of yesterday, the Japanese women's table tennis team has won three consecutive games. Miu Hirano defeated Luxembourg's Tessie Gondlinger 3-0 in the first game. In the second game, she faced a challenge against Iran's Ashtali, ranked 709th in the world, and finally won 3-2. , yesterday in the third match, Hirano defeated South Africa's Sussman in straight games in just 11 minutes. Lin Yunru's Chinese Taipei team currently has 1 win and 1 loss. In yesterday's highlight match with the Japanese men's team, Lin Yunru defeated Shinozuka Otobu 3-2 and lost to Tomokazu Harimoto 2-3.
There were suspicions that the two were bound and in love, which first came out from Xiaohongshu. Some netizens revealed that Miu Hirano watched Lin Yunru's game alone during the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, and Hirano would like Lin Yunru's updates on social platforms. Some netizens dug deeper and found that the two of them follow each other on multiple social platforms. Miu Hirano is one of the three table tennis players that Lin Yunru follows on Instagram, and the other two are seniors and Gu Yuting.
Miu Hirano was born on April 14, 2000. She became the World Cup singles champion in 2016 at the age of 16. She had already won a silver medal in the women's team at the last Tokyo Olympics and has now obtained singles tickets to Paris. Miu Hirano was born into a table tennis family. Her father Nomitsu is a physician and a former table tennis player who once participated in the All-Japan Championship. Miu Hirano’s mother, Mariko, was a professional table tennis player, and her parents were both engaged in table tennis at the University of Tsukuba.
Lin Yunru was born on August 17, 2001, into a scholarly family. His father is a professor at Yilan University and his mother is the principal of a middle school. Lin Yunru is currently ranked 8th in the world in men's singles. He won the mixed doubles bronze medal at the last Olympic Games. He is the current pillar of the Chinese Taipei team and one of the strong rivals of the national table tennis men's team.
Japanese girls mature early. According to Li Jie, Hirano Miu’s childhood coach, Hirano Miu liked to buy women’s magazines privately when she was about 15 years old and apply makeup according to the styles in the magazines.
Some enthusiastic netizens concluded: Sister and brother are in love, they are well matched, it is not surprising that Taiwanese men like to find Japanese women. Although there was a story about Fukuhara's love for Jiang Hongjie before, Lin Ping's love is after all a love affair between the post-00s generation, and many netizens sent their blessings. This table tennis romance, at least for now, is still in the stage of speculation and rumors until it is acknowledged by the parties involved.
