One day before the T.League officially kicks off its inaugural season with a men's match between the Kinoshita Meister Tokyo and T.T Saitama, chairman Koji Matsushita, players and coaches showed their excitement and jitters to be a part of Japan's first professional table tennis circuit.
Matsushita, one of the T.League founders and a former top pro player himself, expressed nothing but pleasure that the nation is beginning a new era for the sport.
"I've already checked the arena out and it excited me even more," he said with a smile at a news conference at Ryogoku Kokugikan, the venue for the opening-day contest, on Tuesday. "I'm genuinely looking forward to tomorrow's game."
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