ITTF-ATTU Asian Championships Tashkent 2026, 10/18-25

[Janard]

Down to the second singles on both sides to clinch the goldware lolll

 

[pingpongnerd]

I will never understand how Hayata is such a freebie for CNT, every times she played a CNT player it's like they already got her in their palm before the match even start. Almost as bad as Hirano during Tokyo Olympic cycle

There is a thrase " Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
The Japanese team has definitely fallen into this trap by persisting with hayata too long. By all mean play hayata against other teams, but in the final against the chinese, play some one like Sato or Odo. They can't do any worse than hayata.
Had they played Sato in the 3rd single spot tonight, they would have already won 3:1

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Men's JNT lost because of a chopper but fortunately Women's JNT has Hashimoto

 

[pingpongnerd]

Men's JNT lost because of a chopper but fortunately Women's JNT has Hashimoto

The Japanese womens team should have picked Sato as well

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Honoka is the hero of the day!

 

[zeio]

WT F
CHN 2-3 JPN
CY 0-3 Hashimoto (-9, -9, -5)
G1 20, 21, 51, 54, 64, 65, 95, 98 TO for CHN, 911
G2 22, 25, 45, 46, 56, 57, 67, 68, 98, 911
G3 02, 12, 13, 43, 45, 55, 511
JNT: CNT "gaslighting" me?

WYD 3-2 Harimoto (-7, 9, 7, -12, 8)
G3 36, 56 TO for JPN, 76 slight net for WYD, 77, 117
G4 94, 99, 109, 1012
G5 31, 34, 44, 45, 75, 76, 106, 108, 118
WYD: You get back up from where you fall down.

KM 3-0 Hayata (7, 2, 4)
G1 41, 45, 65, 67, 117
G2 80, 81, 91 sideline edge for KM, 92, 112
G3 30 TO for JPN, 40, 41, 61, 62, 102, 104, 114

CY 0-3 Harimoto (-6, -8, -5)

WYD 1-3 Hashimoto (-10, -3, 6, -7)
G1 41, 42, 62, 64, 84, 86, 106, 109 TO for CHN, 1012
G2 05 eleven in a row, 15, 18, 28, 210, 310, 311
G3 30, 31, 41, 42, 52, 53, 63, 65, 95, 96, 116
G4 02, 12, 13, 43, 44, 54 side, 64 epic save by WYD, 69, 79, 711

Hashimoto becomes the 2nd player after Miwa to get 2 points off of CHN after ATTC 2024.

Many Tieba users wanted to see Hayata benched...

亚锦赛女团中日对决
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/11124947214
贴吧用户_QyyyWMS 感觉早田三单，张本一单，桥本二单
IP属地:广东来自Android客户端17楼2026-10-22 09:42收起回复
(It feels like Hayata will play 3rd singles, Harimoto 1st, and Hashimoto 2nd)
白丽薇: 早田最好都别出面，让长崎试试
2026-10-22 10:43回复
(It’s best if Hayata doesn’t step forward; let Nagasaki have a try)

JTTA: Should we amend the selection criteria again, or perhaps grow a backbone?
CNT: Hayata for LA28!

2025/10/15
https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...s-2025-bhubaneswar-10-11-15.37489/post-545753

No Hirano, Hayata and Ito for LA28 will be the right thing to have for JNT.

2025/12/14
https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/thread-about-japanese-players.38013/post-555503

It's in JTTA's best interest after WTT SCT London/Muscat 2025, XTWC 2025 and WTT F Hong Kong 2025. Doubles will be the main battlefield even though WR will be the major selection criterion.

Of the 3,
Hirano could remain somewhat competitive if she gives it another push given her sturdy body type (here and here) and to my surprise she will play WD with Kihara at Zennihon Takkyu 2026;
Hayata's injury- and disease-prone body type is just unsettling, and 3 years down the road?;
Ito's solo personality and the limit of her playing style and stubby body type are frankly out of tune with XT.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

lol no huge celebrations for 🇯🇵 Japan

Hashimoto didn’t even raise her arms or shout anything after her (tough) win

 

[ThePongCommenter]

Had they played Sato in the 3rd single spot tonight, they would have already won 3:1

Hard to say that for sure when both Hayata and Sato lost their recent encounters to Kuai Man narrowly in the decider and there are other factors at play but yeah probably would've been worth a shot.

Losing to a Chinese team without SYS and WMY would've been unfortunate.

 

[ThePongCommenter]

lol no huge celebrations for 🇯🇵 Japan

Hashimoto didn’t even raise her arms or shout anything after her (tough) win

I mean, everyone is aware of the elephant in the room...

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

I mean, everyone is aware of the elephant in the room...

A title is a title

 

[Janard]

ZQH totally unbothered by the chops on both his FH and BH

Proven wrong as usual

 

[zeio]

lol no huge celebrations for 🇯🇵 Japan

Hashimoto didn’t even raise her arms or shout anything after her (tough) win

No SYS and WMY. No fun. A title just a little more meaningful than the one at ATTC 2021 which CNT skipped. Pales in comparison with ATTC 2024, where WMY was missing as well.

Also, Hashimoto doesn't want to serve as a "pawn" for WT only.

 

[zeio]

MT SF
KOR 3-1 JPN
Kang Dongsoo 3-0 Shinozuka (8, 7, 17)
Park Ganghyeon 0-3 Harimoto (-12, -9, -6)
Park Gyuyeon 3-0 Matsushima (4, 8, 9)
G1 10, 12, 102, 104, 114
G2 64, 66, 76, 77, 107, 108, 118
G3 01, 31, 33, 43, 44, 74 TO for JPN, 76 TO for KOR, 77 big net for Matsushima, 97, 99, 119
Kang Dongsoo 3-1 Harimoto (2, -12, 0, 8)
G1 40, 41, 61, 62, 112
G2 20, 22, 32, 35, 45, 49, 69, 610, 910 TO for JPN, 1010 corner edge for KOR, 1011, 1211, 1214
G3 90 sideline edge for KOR, 110
G4 02, 12, 13, 63, 64 TO for KOR, 74, 75, 85, 86, 106, 108, 118

MT F
KOR 0-3 CHN
Kang Dongsoo 1-3 ZQH (-8, -5, 9, -9)
Park Gyuhyeon 0-3 LSD (-11, -8, -6)
Park Ganghyeon 1-3 XP (-12, -7, 9, -7)

A pleasant surprise for KNT, even considering their tradition of producing upsets. There's no telling they could produce more of them in XT at LA28.

 

[zeio]

Finally at that point 8 years later.

早田可以下了吧 (Can Hayata be dropped now?)
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/11127994193
古手步 直接美和带双削呗，你说奥运会有双打最多只能带一个削，问题是早田双打也就那样啊，伊藤平野都能下，凭啥早田不行，竞技体育还是成绩说话，颜值也不能换奖牌回来啊
IP属地:湖北来自Android客户端1楼2026-10-22 22:35回复
(Just Miwa and double chopper. You might argue that for the Olympics, you can only bring one chopper for the doubles events, but let’s be honest: Hayata’s doubles performance is nothing special anyway. If Ito and Hirano can be dropped from the lineup, why can’t Hayata? In competitive sports, results are all that matter; you can’t exactly trade good looks for Olympic medals)

宝宝金水 理论上洛奥要上双削，必须有一削稳稳把早田踢下二号位，另一削拿推荐位，且双削保持竞争力？
IP属地:广东来自iPhone客户端5楼2026-10-22 22:44收起回复
(Theoretically, to field double chopper for LA Olympics, one of them would need to definitively displace Hayata from the number two spot, while the other would have to secure a nomination—and both would need to remain competitive, right?)
孤星坠落6K: 应该就是这种解法了，桥本佐藤其中一个踢掉二号 然后另一个靠双削女双拿推荐位，不然一个都去不了
2026-10-22 23:12回复
(This seems to be the only viable solution: have either Hashimoto or Sato knock out the No. 2, and then secure a recommendation spot through their performance in women’s doubles—otherwise, neither of them will make it)

2025/8/27
https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/wtt-contender-almaty-2025-sep-2-7.37711/post-538218

Miyazaki already made it clear in his book from 2018. We saw that "philosophy" at work for the ATTC 2024 selection trial where Sato and Hashimoto lost to Odo and Yokoi ultimately got selected for the WD event.

That's probably what Sato was talking about by "running away from facing reality". Therefore, both Hashimoto and Sato (yet belonging to different teams) need to be successful to even have a decent shot (even more so now that Olympic WD is back). They are beneficial to the so-called team (JNT) yet get eaten alive by their teammates that are not quite real teammates. Not much different from China (who comes clean about the reality), but Japan has the gall to throw the term "fairness" around and many ignorant fans in Japan bash China for that, yet aren't even aware of their own double standards.

2026/10/10
https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/china-smash-2026-beijing-10-1-11.39809/post-591533

JTTA needs to give Harimoto/Hashimoto another try and Harimoto/Sato as well as Hashimoto/Sato a try. This rigidity is getting them nowhere. If finishing as the finalists only is their goal, then Kihara/Nagasaki have done way better than Harimoto/Hayata.

 

[JackJohnson]

There is a thrase " Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
The Japanese team has definitely fallen into this trap by persisting with hayata too long. By all mean play hayata against other teams, but in the final against the chinese, play some one like Sato or Odo. They can't do any worse than hayata.
Had they played Sato in the 3rd single spot tonight, they would have already won 3:1

I suggested that for the WTTTC Final vs China that Japan should not have selected Hayata for 2nd singles. She lost both her matches against SYS and WMY and they lost the overall match 3-2. At the time would have been better to select Rin Mende as the China players rarely played with her or not at all compared to Miyu Nagasaki. Unfortunately Sato was not selected for this event.

I was told that by not selecting Hayata it will affect the team morale but the same thing keeps happening again where she loses to every Chinese player in a team match.

I hope Japan try and selects both Hashimoto and Sato in future events as I feel like their chances of winning against China when SYS and WMY are on the team are greater with these 2 players along with Miwa than continuing selecting Hayata and expecting the same outcome over again.