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RIO DE JANEIRO
Japan's 15-year-old Mima Ito won the game that secured her country a women's team bronze medal, triggering an emotional reaction from her team mate on Tuesday.
The world number nine defeated Feng Tianwei in the fourth singles to complete the 3-1 win.
As the winning ball was struck, Ito's team mate Ai Fukuhara started crying, before the trio, which included Kasumi Ishikawa, waved and bowed to a boisterous crowd, the majority of whom had cheered them on.
In the doubles,"Kasumi did a very good job and she got one point, but in my opinion it was worth five points...That gave us energy to carry on," said Ai, who lost out narrowly on an individual medal to North Korea's Song I KimXiaoxia Li.
"I couldn't get the medal in the individual so this time I really committed myself to getting the medal and then going back to Japan," she said.
