I just find a problem, you can't write off 3-0 to players who bypass first round, if they lost in next round, they were only awarded points for 64R, like Harimoto and SHW here.
See rules:
Maybe because he's doing mixes with Harimotos, just "愛屋及烏", I don't know, and of course they were cheering in japanese, although the only japanese they were saying are their names and "頑張れ".
You can check China Smash, they were cheering for them in japanese there too.
This just proved you don't know these fan culture. To them, Xu and Xiang are nobody, they're fans of Harimoto siblings and Matsushima, and there're many of them in China.
SYS's fans are like cult nowadays (so are WCQ's), it's a big reason why she is the most infamous figure among Tieba users, almost everybody there celebrated her lose to CXT the other day.
Hirano expressed on TV her envy of (can't deal with) Harimoto's YG serve (reverse pendulum serve called in Japan) before Olympic, seems hasn't been fixed.
Even Mima Ito have problem receive Harimoto's reverse pendulum serve, I remember Harimoto got a handful of points directly in last 2 games...
So with Dima's withdrawal, there're 9 slots for qualifiers. Benyamin FARAJI, who beat WCQ and pushed LSD to the limit, lost badly in 2nd round preliminary (-3,-2,-10), got the 9th slot, by lottery I suppose.🤣
Dima withdrawed from this event despite got Host Wildcard, will he get ZPP like LYJ? He can't use injury as an excuse if he still attend next week's Champions.
https://worldtabletennis.com/description?artId=4328
Montpellier is the place of vengeance, all 4 MS QF matches are between the players that one have absolute winning record against another.
MS QF H2H:
LSD - LYJ 3:0
Alexis - Felix 2:0 (10:0 including domestic ones)
Harimoto - Franziska 8:0
LJK - Duda 3:0
So who can get their revenge? 🤯
Satsuki Odo's forthcoming schedule:
Oct. 22 - 27 Champions Montpellier
Oct. 28 - Nov.2 Contender Muscat (WS and WD)
Nov. 3 - 10 Champions Frankfurt
People were worried about her lack of opportunities, now they should worry about the opposite. Her latest WR is 16th, combined with those...
From 1:01, another camera angle shows even more dramatic scene, girls screaming and smell their hands after had contact with Harimoto, and a guy touched his chest.😅