WTT Contender Doha 2024

[Metaxa]

What incredibly bad light in that playroom. It's as if they had to play against ghosts. What an amateurish state of affairs. Shame on the organisers.

 

[Metaxa]

against two oponents?

 

[NextLevel]

The light is fine, I have never heard a player complain. The visuals have more to do with the cameras.

Timo is live now vs Jang...

 

[mikeytt]

Timo looking good 2-0 up against jang woojin
Edit: He takes the game 3-0

 

[turbozed]

3rd straight WTT event at this lifeless and problem-plagued venue?

Surely the fans weren't the ones clamoring for this.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

table is very bright
surrounds outwards is dark
camera is placed in a dark location and going through darkness
same thing for the past few months

btw. youtube camera is likely a problem
tv broadcast camera is okay

 

[mikeytt]

togami seemed a lot more stable in this match vs Karlsson (who seemed a little sick)

 

[mikeytt]

Quarter final matchups:

MS:
Lin Yun Ju vs Yang Wang
Timo Boll vs Lee Sang Su
Shunsuke Togami vs Lim Jonghoon
Simon Gauzy vs Tomokazu Harimoto

 

[fore.n.back]

Kao Cheng-rui has a good backhand but his fore is just too lackluster. Does Taiwan focus on training their backhand too much?

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Kao Cheng-rui has a good backhand but his fore is just too lackluster. Does Taiwan focus on training their backhand too much?

well, the 4 youngsters never had the same coach or "trained together".
It is just co-incidence that all 4 are/were stronger on the BH.

Feng is maybe more complete with his FH
As evidence in Lin, Kao could always still improve on the FH side.
Huang Yan-Cheng is also stronger on the BH.

A good question could be, why are the BH stronger players beating the FH stronger players in Taiwan?
the FH players are not that old (ie 25~29), but can't make the cut with these 20~22 years old.

 

[mikeytt]

Togami 3-1 Lim Jonghoon
Boll 3-1 Lee Sang Su
Harimoto 3-2 Gauzy
Lin Yun-Ju 3-0 Yang Wang

Semi Finals:
Togami vs Harimoto
Boll vs LYJ

 

[NextLevel]

Gauzy had Harimoto on the brink. We would never have heard the end of it from TBH lol.

 

[turbozed]

One thing I find a bit intriguing about Harimoto is that his whiff rate on FH counters is very high compared to people around his rank. I'm not talking about just missed shots that don't find the table, I'm talking about him having plenty of time to load up a FH counter and completely failing to make contact with it.

A lot of the time they look like they should be point ending shots in his favor too. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[zeio]

Just a run of bad luck. Sample size is too small.

 

[OvrChkn]

Timo in the finals!

 

[mikeytt]

I thought the semi's were tomorrow morning so I missed the match, but that is incredible for Timo to beat LYJ!

 

[zeio]

LYJ 2-3 Boll (5, -4, 7, -9, -5)

The last 2 meetings that went to LYJ were close as well.

 

[Wrighty67]

Timo in the finals!

Not seen him play this well in a long time - go Timo 👍My money on him to win.

 

[zeio]

Togami 2-3 Harimoto (8, -4, -2, 7, -7)
Harimoto is better at covering his FH pocket here after WTT SCT Doha 2024.

 

[fore.n.back]

Harimoto's forehand is online through out and successfully pin Togami in the bh corner, made me almost feel like Togami deliberately throw the match lol