ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals Busan 2024

[blahness]

Harimoto played ok, but his style is overly dependant on bang bang fast paced rallying. When he gets hot, its amazing how many difficult shots he can retrieve with pace. When he is hot, he might be the best rallyer in the world. But it looks hard to do over an entire tournament.

Matsushima is younger, but plays a more "professional" style. He plays a lot more short points, creates and finishes more opportunity balls. He almost had fzd on the ropes a few times.

That is Harimoto's specialty, the oppressive close to table BH and he thrives in this. Imo Harimoto's FH showed a lot of improvement here, his FH was able to keep up with his BH in terms of speed and continuity.

Unfortunately for him, Wang Chuqin doesn't play that game with him. It's all serve/receive/3rd ball fiesta with Wang Chuqin, and he is exceedingly good at it. Harimoto simply cannot play his rallying game until he has deciphered the nasty Wang Chuqin serve and receive.

Imo Harimoto is actually equal with Wang Chuqin in the rally, it's just that he is simply at a huge disadvantage even from serve/receive, and you can't play a game with such a handicap.

There was some promise when Harimoto started serving reverse pendulum. Will see if he will continue to develop the serve. I think it is very effective in confusing and jamming Wang Chuqin's aggressive chiquita.

 

[JJ Ng]

I'm waiting for someone to suggest Harimoto to try anti spin

Nay, Harimoto should switch to double short pips, AKA Johnny Huang from the 1990's!!!!

 

[NextLevel]

Is Groth another player whose star is hard to track? Sometimes he is the second coming of Boll and then sometimes he is the second coming of Maze post injuries.

 

[bachikho]

Bulgaria works for table 1

Netherland working too

U can use India, as I can see all tables live on youtube.

not working

 

[zeio]

Is Groth another player whose star is hard to track? Sometimes he is the second coming of Boll and then sometimes he is the second coming of Maze post injuries.

Thanks to WTTC 2024 for reminding me this question I asked of Michael Maze (I don't know if Dan relayed the question)...

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/ask-michael-maze-a-question.19390/post-246817

Jonathan Groth, WR18 as of 10/2018, has been making great strides in the singles since the Rio Olympics. In your opinion, what does he need to crack into the top 10?

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/europe-top-16-cup-2018.16993/post-219838

Groth played like there was no tomorrow.

Never thought Shibaev would have so much trouble with lefties.

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...pionships-finals-busan-2024.32987/post-443515

FRA 3-1 DEN
F. Lebrun 2-0 -> 3-2 Groth
Gauzy 2-1 -> 2-3 Lind
A. Lebrun 3-0 Rasmussen
F. Lebrun 3-0 Lind
G1 810 TO for Lind, 1210

 

[zeio]

MT QF
KOR 3-1 DEN
LJH 3-1 Lind
JWJ 1-3 Groth
AJH 3-0 Andersen
LJH 3-1 Groth

 

[fore.n.back]

An article by Takagi Mina on Tasei apologizing to his players for the poor draw. Harimoto was watching the live stream in his room while gluing his rubbers. He was in a confused state after seeing the draw and he had doubt about his glue job even until the next afternoon...

https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/tabletennis/news/2024/02/032941.html

so I'm guessing Tasei also pick the draw back at Chengdu 2022 and the Asian games in Hangzhou right? he has a cursed hand lmao

 

[driversbeat]

MT QF
CHN vs JPN

WT QF
ROU vs JPN

How do you look at the full lineups without waiting for matches to start? WTT website is a nightmare to navigate.

 

[zeio]

How do you look at the full lineups without waiting for matches to start? WTT website is a nightmare to navigate.

No known way. The full lineups disappear once the match is under way. Very poor user experience.

 

[Janard]

WYD: Whew, narrowly avoided another pips player. Thanks CM.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Indeed, Harimoto will never win from Wang again and will stick to 1 win. Rather, it will be one of his teammates who will be able to win from Wang CQ

the same can be applied to every other non-Chinese hey
having 1 win is so difficult
throughout recent history, who has "many wins" against Chinese

 

[Shine]

I suspect this won't age well. Harimoto is amazingly still improving. Wang is at his peak

That's funny.
The Wang that I saw yesterday didn't even look like the typical Wang in rallies. I suspect because he wasn't holding the table as much. But we'll see.

 

[NextLevel]

That's funny.
The Wang that I saw yesterday didn't even look like the typical Wang in rallies. I suspect because he wasn't holding the table as much. But we'll see.

Maybe because Harimoto has improved enough in 3 to 4 months that Wang didn't obliterate him as badly as he would have prior to this?

Let's see how it goes.

 

[zeio]

In-depth interviews with Harimoto on 1-3 WCQ and Matsushima on 1-3 FZD.

「自分が一番の味方であり、一番の敵」。中国の壁を破るため、張本智和が語ること
https://world-tt.com/blog/news/archives/165325

世界王者との対戦も「本当に楽しみだった」。中国を震撼させた松島輝空の衝撃
https://world-tt.com/blog/news/archives/165297

 

[NextLevel]

Looks like Taiwan is targeting Franziska and for Lin to take 2.

 

[NextLevel]

Wow. If Chuang wins this, the match is over barring a German miracle. Lin is almost unbeatable.

 

[zeio]

MT QF
GER 0-3 TPE
QD 0-1 -> 1-1 -> 1-2 -> 2-2 -> 2-3 CCY
G3 010 QD served into the net, 110 courtesy point from CCY, 111
G5 510, 910, 911
Ovtcharov 2-0 -> 2-3 LYJ
G1 46?, 66, 108, 109, 119
G2 118
G3 911
G4 911
G5 25 TO for Ovtcharov, 35, 36, 46, 47, 77, 79, 89 sideline edge for Ovtcharov, 810, 910, 911
Franziska 1-3 Kao Cheng-Jui
G1 119
G2 1416
G3 58, 88, 810, 910, 911
G4 24, 76, 86, 810, 910, 911

 

[Emin]

CCY is on fcking fire.

And DQ not at his highest level, he can keep returning everything with good placement and quality but sometimes he just loses focus and does not use his opportunities well.

GG to CCY, strong performance from him

 

[NextLevel]

Huge win. He never beats Dima in big matches so this was huge. Now will Lin do his job? And will Japan regret their victory over Taiwan in the group stages lol?

 

[Emin]

This might be an interesting match, both Lin and Dima can both play very very well.
If both play to their best, Lin will win, but with these 2 it can really depend on how well they get into the match and adapt.