WTT Contender Lagos 2025 Jul 22-26

[pongfugrasshopper]

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WTT Contender Lagos in Nigeria kicks off on Tuesday with 2 days of qualification. Anders Lind is top seed in MS. Hina Hayayata is top seed in WS. She will probably get challenged by Honoka Hashimoto.

 

[NextLevel]

They just had the regional qualifiers gor the African Championships. Quadri doesn't seem to be playing. Wonder what's going on there....

 

[NextLevel]

Matches are on now... still qualifiers but interesting to see who made it and who didnt.

 

[BlopChock]

I see Mariam Aruna played today. Was tempted to make a joke asking if she might be related to Gozo. 😉

For those interested in seeing Quadri's daughter play, her match starts ~ the 4hr 13min mark here:

 

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WTT Contender Lagos 2025 WS Draw

 

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WTT Contender Lagos 2025 MS Draw

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

I don't know what happened, but poor Hina losing to Sreeja Akula at 7,8,3 is not normal. She needs to rest. Pencil in 400 points for Honoka Hashimoto.

 

[NextLevel]

I don't know what happened, but poor Hina losing to Sreeja Akula at 7,8,3 is not normal. She needs to rest. Pencil in 400 points for Honoka Hashimoto.

Yeah that was really weird. Here I was thinking Sreeja had a poor draw but then saw Hayata had a poor result lol.

 

[Tinykin]

I see Mariam Aruna played today. Was tempted to make a joke asking if she might be related to Gozo. 😉

For those interested in seeing Quadri's daughter play, her match starts ~ the 4hr 13min mark here:

That first game was such a contrast to the rest of the match.

 

[zeio]

I don't know what happened, but poor Hina losing to Sreeja Akula at 7,8,3 is not normal. She needs to rest. Pencil in 400 points for Honoka Hashimoto.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. She already took a multi-month break after Paris 2024. Merely delaying the inevitable. Poor Miwa got robbed of a GS trophy like her oni-san at WTTC 2025.

Once again, besides what I've pointed out over past few months, namely her hand being finished and reliance on painkillers to play well, and a playing style that can't afford reduced training volume, it comes down to how she positions herself in this cycle, when she has acted otherwise.

 

[NextLevel]

Tsk, tsk, tsk. She already took a multi-month break after Paris 2024. Merely delaying the inevitable. Poor Miwa got robbed of a GS trophy like her oni-san at WTTC 2025.

Once again, besides what I've pointed out over past few months, namely her hand being finished and reliance on painkillers to play well, and a playing style that can't afford reduced training volume, it comes down to how she positions herself in this cycle, when she has acted otherwise.

Nah, Sreeja took so much risk that if she can play like that consistently, she will be top 10 for sure.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Tsk, tsk, tsk. She already took a multi-month break after Paris 2024. Merely delaying the inevitable. Poor Miwa got robbed of a GS trophy like her oni-san at WTTC 2025.

Once again, besides what I've pointed out over past few months, namely her hand being finished and reliance on painkillers to play well, and a playing style that can't afford reduced training volume, it comes down to how she positions herself in this cycle, when she has acted otherwise.

Well, it's a tough balancing act trying to maintain your ranking so she can play Smashes and Champions while at the same time fully recovering from injury.

Miwa wasn't robbed. There was no cheating or points mistakenly given to Hina. Absent that, you either win or lose.

 

[dewnyc]

7-game losing streak for Hina in WTT singles play, going back to the reverse sweep she suffered to Chen Yi in Vegas.

 

[BlopChock]

That first game was such a contrast to the rest of the match.

Right? Found her range and confidence in the second, and then it was like a freight train.

 

[d3nium]

Crazy atmosphere at this event and some controversy in the quarter-final between Rolland and Stoyanov. Rolland was 12-11 up in the 5th, Stoyanov claimed an edge, umpires said 12-12, Rolland said it missed, appealed and the umpires eventually awarded him the win.

 

[tzifos]

Honoka destroyed the young Yeh YiTian!

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

 

[Catenaccio]

With her win in Lagos, Hashimoto is projected to get back to #14 in the World Rankings. She is scheduled to play the Star Contender Foz do Iguaçu and has a good chance of reaching the semis -- she should be the 4th seed and be able to avoid Miwa and Odo until the SF. Actually, she will temporarily overtake Hayata, SYB, and CIC because they all have points expiring from the Paris Olympic Games on August 5th (irrespective of her result in Brazil). However, they are scheduled to participate in the Champions Yokohama (7-11 August) whereas Hashimoto is not. Good news is that Hashimoto can make up for at the Europe Smash.

EDIT: I forgot that CIC made it to the finals of the Contender in Buenos Aires and she also entered the Star Contender in Brazil. So Hashimoto might not overtake CIC.

 

[driversbeat]

With her win in Lagos, Hashimoto is projected to get back to #14 in the World Rankings. She is scheduled to play the Star Contender Foz do Iguaçu and has a good chance of reaching the semis -- she should be the 4th seed and be able to avoid Miwa and Odo until the SF. Actually, she will temporarily overtake Hayata, SYB, and CIC because they all have points expiring from the Paris Olympic Games on August 5th (irrespective of her result in Brazil). However, they are scheduled to participate in the Champions Yokohama (7-11 August) whereas Hashimoto is not. Good news is that Hashimoto can make up for at the Europe Smash.

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rumours are that Hashimoto may receive a wildcard for champions yokohama...

 

[Catenaccio]

rumours are that Hashimoto may receive a wildcard for champions yokohama...

That would be awesome!