Ishizaka was the top qualifier for the Universiade

The order of the performers of the sessions of Day 2 were divided according to the scores after Day 1, but the first session included the gymnasts who competed for the Universiade qualification only. The later the competition went, the level of performance was supposed to be better. However, we unfortunately saw a lot of mistakes from the gymnasts in the last session...

While the number of mistakes increased in the last session, Manami Ishizaka was notably different from the others; she showed mental strength and that her gymnastics was unbeatable. She hit every routine, and nobody could imagine an error from her. She currently is the top qualifier not only for the NHK Cup but also for the World Championships and East Asian Games teams. Uemura and Oshima, who were second and third respectively, were not up for today. Uemura was completely out of shape, missing vault and uneven bars, and going out of bounds on floor. Oshima made big mistakes on every event except vault.

Sahara was much better today than yesterday including excellent roundoff- layout back somersalt mount on beam and an awesome Tkachev on uneven bars. She got third place over Oshima. Kuroda was strong not only on her best event, uneven bars, but also on floor, in which she had an error yesterday. Momoko Ozawa, as well as Kuroda, was a very young gymnast but excellent in her dance elements on beam and floor. Kuroda and Ozawa were fifth and sixth respectively.

At this competition, the women's Universiade squad would be selected, and the battle for the number five spot was extremely exciting. The top three spots went to Ishizaka, Uemura, and Sahara without doubt, but the filling of the rest of the spots was unpredictable. Yamamoto had a fall on uneven bars, and Mizoguchi missed again on beam, just like yesterday. Yamamoto, however, was calm on the later events and got a spot. Even though the reigning national champion, Ichikawa, had strong performances on beam and floor, Tanaka got the final spot over Ichikawa by only 0.025. Tanaka had small breaks on beam but she cleanly hit a beautiful Yurchenko with 1 1/2 twist to score 9.000, which qualified her for the Universiade.