ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals Busan 2024

[Emin]

i found this one: https://yibababa.com/tv/cctv5hd.html

For China vs Japan

And this one as well:

 

[dingyibvs]

Damn, what a match so far, 3 sets all going to deuces!

 

[driversbeat]

Pavade 3-0 Shan Xiaona
11-5 11-9 11-2

Absolute domination from the beginning. Yuan Jia Nan finally has a major medal.

 

[Emin]

Fan Zhendong does not lose mid distance backhand forehand exchanges.
Nobody can keep up with that except for WCQ.
Sora played to Fans strengths and ended up losing almost all rallies longer than 4 balls, in the last set at least.

 

[dingyibvs]

Unfortunately for Matsushima, FZD finally found his weakness and exploited it to the max the 4th game. Matsushima covered wide FH and BH extremely well, especially his wide BH, but his middle was very weak. FZD just kept the rally going at Matsushima's body and there was nothing he could do. FZD just beat him with pure consistency in the middle to middle rallies, he didn't do any special shots, just mid-power counters to the middle.

 

[Emin]

Now comes ( one of the ) most anticipated in the entire tournament.
I am rooting for a close match, but Wang Chuqin will want to prove a point.
Not gonna be easy for Harimoto, depends on how quickly he can get into his form.

 

[Emin]

Harimoto with a very strong first set.
Some heavy spin pushes that didnt give Wang Chuqin easy points. 3 Crucial points won in rallies with forehand counter loops and backhand counter loops, not just his usual blocks.
Those 3 points in the rallies got him to win this first set.

 

[mikeytt]

Harimoto playing well, hope he can keep this form through the match

 

[dingyibvs]

Now comes ( one of the ) most anticipated in the entire tournament.
I am rooting for a close match, but Wang Chuqin will want to prove a point.
Not gonna be easy for Harimoto, depends on how quickly he can get into his form.

Looks like he got in form pretty quickly lol. First set to Tomo with some incredible shots, let's see how WCQ responds.

 

[dingyibvs]

WCQ changed up the strategy a bit, attacking the middle first before spreading out, leading to some easy points and a dominating 2nd set win. Now let's see how Tomo adjusts.

 

[turbozed]

Harimto gonna have to wipe that 2nd game from his memory

 

[Emin]

2nd set:
Harimoto seems unfocused and not very reactive.
WCQ adapted, looped and countered as usual with a little bit more quality, but there was almost no response from TH. Almost like he fell asleep.

 

[Emin]

Might be a small turning point for TH again.
Catches WCQ with a heavy spin push at 3-1 that he fails to loop and wins a rally at 3-2 ( with net, but still).

Edit: Another strong rally ( still with net) and point from TH.

2nd Edit: WCQ just too stable and good at what he is doing. in order for TH to get points he needs to put much more effort. WCQ just does what does best and TH cant find a consistent answer.

 

[dingyibvs]

WCQ changed up the strategy again a bit for the 3rd set. Tomo's middle is not really a weakness, so I suppose he knew he can't continue the previous strategy and decided to proactively change up the strategy to focus on BH first then to the middle. WCQ is very much avoiding Tomo's FH now.

 

[zeio]

ROU 0-3 JPN
Szocs 1-0 -> 1-2 -> 2-2 Ito
G5 46 TO for Szocs, 78 TO for Ito, 88, 89, 99, 911
Ito is really at her limit here. The point at 6:8 of G5 shows clearly. She could've reached that FH in the last Olympic cycle.
Dragoman 1-0 -> 1-3 Hayata
Samara 0-3 Hirano

 

[turbozed]

HT with the rare reverse pendulum serve. Good to see him trying some new stuff to get back in this game.

 

[dingyibvs]

4th set surprisingly was all about service and receives. Quite a few receive errors leading to aces or 3rd ball kills.

 

[turbozed]

That back edge ball really took away all the momentum HT was trying to build. Could've been 7-7 but a few mistakes afterwards and it was instantly 10-6.

Credit to HT for looking so good in the long rallies (and winning most of them) but also credit to WCQ for fnding layers of tactical changes that got him a comfortable advantage in every game after Game 1

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Great back and forth match between Mima Ito and Bernadette Szocs. Ito just squeezes by 11-9 in the 5th by with a great read and response of Szoc's serve at 9-9.

 

[Janard]

Third singles but Hirano probably drew the toughest player from Romania?