NIPPON PAINT MALLETSNippon Paint Mallets
For their third T.League season, the Mallets have put together a diverse team of top players from around the world. This includes players selected for the Tokyo Olympics, so fans are guaranteed to see incredible skills and play up close. Watching the powerful Mallets players in action is a thing of beauty!
Reach the finals!
The players’ goal is to push themselves to the limit and reach the league finals for the first time. At the Osaka Derby, the Mallets will put everything on the line to beat their local rival Nissay Red Elf, T.League champions the past two years. The Osaka Derby is the can’t-miss event of the table tennis season.
Name: Mallet-chan
Profile:
Mallet-chan is a descendant of Daikokuten, one of the Seven Lucky Gods and said to protect Nippon Paint’s history museum.
He loves table tennis and wants to coach the Mallets but knows he lacks the experience.
He can, however, summon up amazing power when he shakes his mallet of fortune. Or maybe not…
Features:
Mallet-chan always has a lucky mallet in his right hand
and a table tennis racket in his left.
He has table tennis balls on the tip of his nose
and on each of his big lucky ears.
Feng Tianwei of Singapore won a bronze medal at the 2012 London Olympics and Tokyo will mark her fourth Olympics.
Miyu Kato reached the quarterfinals of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships.
Still in junior high school, Haruna Ojio represents the future of the Mallets.