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Japan and Australia meet in the fundamental round of the ladies' wheelchair b-ball at the Tokyo Paralympics on Aug. 25, 2021, at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza. (Kyodo) 

TOKYO (Kyodo) - The Japanese ladies' wheelchair b-ball group made a fantasy start to the Tokyo Paralympics by extinguishing Australia on Wednesday, however veteran forward Mari Amimoto says the side should not get out of hand with its enormous success over a local adversary. 

The 73-47 triumph at Musashino Forest Sport Plaza is ideally the initial step on a way that will lead Japan to the platform, as per Amimoto. 

"We won today, yet we need to keep on winning. So we'll zero in on tomorrow," said Amimoto, who contributed 13 focuses as a feature of a reasonable Japanese assault. 

In the wake of taking a 34-28 lead into halftime, Japan split away in the subsequent half, outscoring 2012 silver medalists Australia 18-11 in the second from last quarter and 21-8 in the fourth. 

One of four Japanese players to arrive at twofold digits, Chihiro Kitada, top scored for the host country with 16 focuses, while Australia's Amber Merritt drove all scorers with 18. 

Amimoto said Japan had wanted to move the ball rapidly to kill Australia's size advantage in the front court. 

"Our b-ball is extremely fast on the move. We are not tall. We are a tiny group and we play together, with change and early offense," said Amimoto, who made her Paralympic debut at the 2008 Beijing Games, when Japan last equipped for ladies' wheelchair ball. 

One of only three players staying from Beijing, the 32-year-old Osaka local said she had an obligation to direct more youthful individuals from the group in the bid for Japan's first award in the game since a bronze at the 2000 Sydney Games. 

"Numerous players don't think about the Paralympic Games. We were unable to go to London or Rio de Janeiro, so (in any event, as far as I might be concerned, it's simply the second Paralympics," said Amimoto, who got wheelchair b-ball at 15 get-togethers club foot made it excessively hard for her to keep playing the standing type of the game. 

While the group is centered around forthcoming games against Britain, Canada and Germany, the success over a regularly problematic Australian side was a fundamental gauge of Japan's solidarity following eighteen months without worldwide contest in the midst of the Covid pandemic, Amimoto said. 

"It was vital for us to win. We lost against Australia so often, (so) it was a vital game," she said. 

While playing away from public scrutiny in Tokyo is endlessly unique to the boisterous hordes of Beijing, the games experience has so far been agreeable for Amimoto, whose vocation has remembered spells with clubs for Australia, Spain and Germany. 

"I figured I would get more anxious, yet I wasn't," she said. "(I haven't felt) stress, the volunteers and staff have been exceptionally kind aiding us."