Kanami Furukawa challenges the world with signature crouching serves
Imagen ⒸJapan Table Tennis Federation for Players with Intellectual DisabilityBy Tokyo 2020 Japanese table tennis player Kanami Furukawa was searching for “a killer technique” that could catapult her into the world rankings’ top places when she watched Olympic champion Ding Ning’s intriguing crouching serve. Furukawa was impressed at the Chinese’s technique and decided to use it as inspiration. With the support of her coach, she was able to master it and turned it into her signature move. As she tosses the ball, Furukawa crouches and uses the downward velocity to hit the ball wit...