Japan's Mima Ito and Jun Mizutani battled back from the brink to edge Petrissa Solja and Patrick Franziska of Germany in a seven-game thriller and reach the semifinals of the table tennis mixed doubles at the Tokyo Olympics on Sunday.Second-seeded Ito and Mizutani trailed 9-2 at one point in the final game and survived six match points before prevailing 11-8, 5-11, 3-11, 11-3, 9-11, 11-8, 16-14 at Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium."It was an incredibly tense match, even though there was no medal riding on it," said Mizutani. "We simply refused to give up and that is what has led us to this victo…READ FULL ARTICLE
