34th ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup 2025, Shenzhen, 2/19-23

[NextLevel]

Sometimes I think calling these CNT players robots especially on the women's side is the highest compliment. Chen Xingtong clearly spends too much of her life in bullet time. You are not supposed to rally with Ito smashing at you like that...

 

[zeio]

MS QF
LSD 4-1 Uda (7, 6, 4, -10, 7)

WS QF
Ito 1-4 CXT
G1 76 CXT forced to draw out the hidden kick serve she used against Hirano at ATTC 2024, 78, 98, 911
G2 20, 25, 35, 36, 56, 510, 611
Nothing has changed. Still the same old washed-up Ito.
G3 05, 65, 66, 76, 77, 87, 88 TO for Ito, 118
G4 01 CXT becomes more vocal, 04, 14, 17, 37, 38, 48 dead net for Ito, 58 corner edge for Ito and TO for CXT, 59, 69, 611
G5 22, 27, 37, 310, 610, 611
Would've ended in straight games had CXT not played safe like always.

SYS 4-2 Harimoto (5, -4, 10, -8, 9, 11)
G2 06, 16, 110, 410, 411
G3 40, 46, 56, 57, 67, 68, 78, 79, 89 TO for Harimoto, 99, 910, 1210
G4 55, 57, 67, 68, 88, 811
G5 41, 43 TO for SYS, 63, 64, 74, 78, 98, 99, 119
G6 13, 23, 24, 34 slight net for SYS, 44, 49, 109, 1010, 1110, 1111 pendulum backspin to SYS's deep BH, 1311
SYS showed shortness of breath but Harimoto blacked out as well after that run of points...

WYD 2-4 KM (-11, 8, 9, -7, -8, -7)

小盒体力好像不足 (Small Carton [Miwa] seemed to be low on energy)
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/9516828707
诗祖屈原兮 打到后面总感觉有点喘不上气，感觉体力不是很足的样子，是不是该加强体能训练了？
IP属地:河南来自Android客户端1楼2025-02-22 19:34回复
(It seemed to me she was catching her breath near the end and was a little low on energy. Should she strengthen her physical training?)

MS QF
Harimoto 2-4 Comebackman
G1 21, 28, 78 TO for Comebackman, 88, 811
G2 85, 95, 97 TO for Harimoto, 98, 108, 1012
G3 41, 46, 56, 57, 67, 68, 78, 79, 89, 810, 910, 911
G4 51, 52, 72, 73, 83, live stream went offline, 106, 107, 117
G5 20, 22, 33, 44, 46, 66, 67, 107, 1011, 1111, 1112, 1412
G6 30, 35, 45, 46, 56, 57, 68, 78, 711

Togami 0-4 WCQ (-7, -6, -7, -7)
Despite losing his title of civil war wang, Togami has (finally) displayed the willingness to adapt his game, besides the reverse pendulum serve.

Huang Youzheng 3-4 LYJ (-7, 11, 10, -9, 10, -8, -9)
G7 42, 43 epic point, 47, 77, 78, 88, 89, 99, 910 endline edge for LYJ, 911

 

[Shine]

LYJ, Miwa and Tomo are the ones who can get things done when the chips are done anyway. Nobody truly expected Ito or Uda to have a decent chance in their matchups.
LYJ is a more fluid, skillful and savvy HYZ. Beating an in-form LYJ would be a great achievement.

 

[turbozed]

Amazing war between SYS and Miwa. Miwa ran out of steam there at the end but while still fresh SYS brought out the best out of her.

 

[Robin0910]

Omg, this watch between Lin Yun Ju and HHZ was epic. HYZ needed a little more to win but LYJ sort of figured his attack patterns out at the end

 

[dingyibvs]

What a battle between HYZ and LYJ! LYJ's experience won out in the end, with HYZ making a couple of relatively simple (for pros) mistakes near the end. LYJ vs. WCQ is gonna be a great one to watch tomorrow, and HYZ can hold his head up high as he appears to be cementing his position next to LSD as the leaders of the next generation of the CNT!

 

[dingyibvs]

Also, KM continues to surprise, this time taking down WYD convincingly. Having beaten WMY and WYD the last couple of tournaments means she's now overtaken QTY as the one to take the spot vacated by CM.

 

[backspacer]

Stream on T3 just died.

 

[dingyibvs]

Stream on T3 just died.

Yeah sucks, looks like Harimoto was mounting a great comeback too!

 

[piligrim]

Yeah sucks, looks like Harimoto was mounting a great comeback too!

From 0:3 no chance

 

[dingyibvs]

From 0:3 no chance

Well, not anymore, but would've been great to watch!

 

[GAOdp]

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[blahness]

Amazing war between SYS and Miwa. Miwa ran out of steam there at the end but while still fresh SYS brought out the best out of her.

Crazy match. The final comeback from SYS was epic to say the least. Miwa nearly got her by super outrageous BH down the line counters that would put her brother to shame (Tomokazu where is your BH these days?!!!).

I have a feeling that Miwa will best her brother these days in BH-BH. Tomokazu has more power in the FH but that is about it.

 

[FIXPOINT]

34th ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup 2025 WS Stage 2 QF

 

[FIXPOINT]

34th ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup 2025 MS Stage 2 QF

 

[zeio]

Harimoto needs to train a BH loopkill against underspin. All the point patterns where he loses dramatically are basically ppl pushing long to his BH to invite his slow weak opening loop, and then counterloop it with heavy af spin to get the advantage in the rally.

I remember that he used to have a really early timing BH fast opening loop which drove everyone nuts when he first started out coz it was taken so early. But now he waits, but it is always a weak slow ball.... just why???!!!

That's the softness of his game that he said he's lost. For those shots, he needs to receive with the FH by turning the corner to exert pressure on the other side.

I have real-life experience with that. I visited a university club in the early 2010s and played 2 members there (a quiet night), winning the first one (inverted penhold twiddler with LP) in 3 games and losing the second one (single-side inverted penholder) in deuce after 4 games. The second guy told me after the match that he should've lost because of his grip (inferior BH) but he noticed that I never stepped around to receive with the FH the whole time and that gave him room to breathe. I didn't tell him that that's the whole point I switched to shakehand but like what Liu Jiayi said about European players, my footwork had become lazy and my table tennis "philosophy" took precedence over making the opponent uncomfortable.

 

[fore.n.back]

Togami 0-4 WCQ (-7, -6, -7, -7)
Despite losing his title of civil war wang, Togami has (finally) displayed the willingness to adapt his game, besides the reverse pendulum serve.

yeah, and he did improve his receiving of Wang serves, the score this time actually showed his stability, though Wang is still more flourished. What he should focus on now is to get his rally skill back (his footwork got slower and the technique doesn't look as clean as 2 years ago) and mix in defensive with offensive (tbh if he has Harimoto level of blocking he could have taken at least a game)

 

[ThePongCommenter]

LYJ, Miwa and Tomo are the ones who can get things done when the chips are done anyway. Nobody truly expected Ito or Uda to have a decent chance in their matchups.
LYJ is a more fluid, skillful and savvy HYZ. Beating an in-form LYJ would be a great achievement.

I'm not sure how much I would include LYJ in that list with Miwa and Tomo of getting it done when the chips are down. In fact it seems like he's always so close to breaking through and falling just short, Olympics bronze medal match with Dima as the most notable example. Open to discussion though.

 

[joshmak10]

I personally think HYZ is ready to take the next step into the chinese A team or at least be the B team leader over XP. So close to beating an inform LYJ, and he’s only going to keep improving.

 

[zeio]

No doubt Huang Youzheng is worth nurturing going forward. XP has wasted too many opportunities since 2018.