Saudi Smash 2024

[Tony's Table Tennis]

This OG qualifying with only two players from each country is akin to me after eating a hearty buffet breakfast on a cruise ship and before you get to digest it, it is lunch time already and before me is another spread of international five star buffet and I have stomach space for only two dishes. it sucks man, I tell you, it truly sucks.

welcome to the party

 

[TampaBayTableTennis]

harimoto vs felix about to start, excited for this one

 

[d3nium]

Felix is relentless, so good!

 

[TampaBayTableTennis]

this is crazy. harimoto can't deal with felix's backhand attacks and he can't get the ball past felix's forehand

 

[kindof99]

Harimoto looks so old

 

[NextLevel]

Harimoto going to lose to Europe lol!

 

[d3nium]

Easy work for Felix.

 

[mikeytt]

Felix just steamrolled that match wow

 

[backspacer]

We are speedrunning the last session of the day.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Harimoto totally silent during this match ! it lasted only 16 minutes.

Félix is absolutely amazing. I now have great expectations for this kid and Team France at OG

 

[kindof99]

Miwa’s brother: It is so quick. what just happened?
Miwa: wake up, bro, you just lost.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

in Japanese there is a word for what just happened to Harimoto

ボコボコ

"Boko Boko"

 

[NextLevel]

Harimoto totally silent during this match ! it lasted only 16 minutes.

Félix is absolutely amazing. I now have great expectations for this kid and Team France at OG

Hari-boy just seemed like a slow old man. Felix Flash is really fast.

 

[Choosikick]

Harimoto totally silent during this match ! it lasted only 16 minutes.

Félix is absolutely amazing. I now have great expectations for this kid and Team France at OG

If he could beat Chinese players just as confidently, he wouldn’t have any value at all. We'll see tomorrow if Felix is really that strong, or if Harimoto had a bad day today.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

why so many players seem so old/slow in Saudi Smash
if it was 1... I can understand

 

[Wrighty67]

why so many players seem so old/slow in Saudi Smash
if it was 1... I can understand

Have you been to Saudi? It’s a difficult climate at times.

 

[NextLevel]

Have you been to Saudi? It’s a difficult climate at times.

He is just pointing out that the players are playing way too many events vs what they would do optimally to play their best.

 

[NextLevel]

A part of me wants Batra to beat Hayata and Chen Meng to beat Harimoto so we can see Batra-Meng with a ticket to the Olympics on the line for Meng. This would be a great match. TT Divinity, please make it happen... ok fine, I should stop being so selfish and heartless to all those Japanese fans...

 

[Choosikick]

Harimoto lacked 2 bananas to win. Patrick ate 2 bananas and won the Fan.

 

[quanghuysk]

Did I count wrong? Patrick had 5 lucky points on 5th set include 2 very important points at 10-8?