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裏 Kasumi is playing awesome. i wonder how she would do on the international circuit.

really strong !

WTT is shit anyway.

Hey Der Echte thank you for your comments and your keen observations.

on the French forum, some commenters said the coach was lazy but i don't agree with them. Yes, he's taking the ball early and...

hi Angel
not sure what you mean by the coach being loose (i'm not a native english speaker)

regarding the hall
the floor is not wooden its some kind of synthetic material, its quite hard, and i...

in (slightly) related news, it seems that Ai Fukuhara is on the verge of divorcing from Chiang Hung-Chieh
She has 2 children from him and was living with her husband + her mom in Taiwan.

an excerpt from today's session with my coach, unedited
its the last 15mns of a 2h session
in the first part, free balls, but i always serve short
in the 2nd part, we play 2 quick sets.

my BH...

phew i was afraid the young guy would end up 0-11

We are very lucky in Japan to be able to play, and even participate in tournaments

Sunday, we took part in the semi-annual local league team tournament where we play in Division 2 (out of 6)
We...

i think not
just purely and simply cancelled

I've been training a lot recently.

I've been focusing much less on classical FH and BH drills and much more on my main weaknesses:

- short game technique (stop, push, nagashi, flick)

-...

Samsonov would surely have traded his 20 wins for just 1 win in WTTC 1997

i don't think the form is particularly bad, it looks ok to me. maybe you are overthinking it

the main impression that i have is that you are not pushing yourself hard enough. you are young, you...

nice vid ! 2 lefties against each other !

and Oikawa is his training partner, its always a special encounter

i can beat some of teammates which are stronger players than me, and I'm beating them much more often than i should given the...

Harimoto has not performed well in these championships, but we mustn't forget he had a strong showing last month.

Its always a special tournament, which comes just after the New Year holidays,...

well Oikawa won his ticket for the WTTC singles (if they ever happen) with this win

the Men's final was very entertaining to watch

OIKAWA saved an incredible match point in the 6th... what a player !!!

he won against the whole JNT , Yoshimura (Maharu), Harimoto, Yoshida...

can't believe ITO lost this match ! she was 3-1 ahead and it seemed like no trouble ahead !

The Citizen girl is Keiko KITAGAWA. Her surgeon(s) did a very good job.

KIHARA seems super strong this year , be careful

I'm sure they were tired and Timo was not 100%. but an official game is an official game. No one wants to lose (or not win) ranking points, or a in a big tournament

YOSHIMURA was playing well on...

yeh all those teams are tough for Japan, but I think Japan has a decent chance against everyone of them.

As for Boll, well in the last team event, it was Team World Cup in Tokyo, he lost 0-3 to...

yeh for Japan, silver for Women's Team, and Gold or Silver in Mixed Doubles (ITO / MIZUTANI) is the most optimistic+realistic outcome

although one can't really blame Harimoto. He's played really...

yes its him but there are no doubles this year

he is using a Mizutani ZLC blade + D80 max on both FH and BH

try this link tomorrow daytime in Japan
http://live.jtta.or.jp/watch/11999

not sure it will work but please try