Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Table Tennis - Men's Team - Last 16 - Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium - Tokyo, Japan - August 2, 2021. Koki Niwa of Japan and Jun Mizutani of Japan react during their match against Heming Hu of Australia and Xin Yan of Australia REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Japanese men's table tennis trio of Jun Mizutani, Koki Niwa and Tomokazu Harimoto won against Australia's Hu Heming, Yan Xin and David Powell 3-0 in the first round of Monday's team event, paving the way for the host country to enter the quarter-finals.
Olympic mixed doubles gold medallist Mizutani and 26-year-old Niwa, two of the trio that earned silver at the 2016 Rio Games, took a strong lead in the doubles match even as the Australian pair Hu and Yan attempted to catch up by alternating between short and long shots.
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