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Shout out to Mao Takamori for having an amazing tournament despite the loss in the finals. Also a shout out to Saki Shibata who posted on X that she decided not to play this tournament due to scheduling and other circumstances. But she coached her young T-League teammate Mao all the way to the...

Rin Mende is Japan's top female junior not named Miwa. She won her first senior tournament recently, 2026 WTT Feeder Cappadocia. Relatively thin frame, but she relies on her beautiful technique and rapid, successive hits to her opponents weak spots to gain the advantage. I especially like her...

Congratulations to Rin Mende securing a spot on the WTTTC team!

Congratulations Mao Takamori and Rin Mende for making the Finals. Too bad there can only be one winner.

Tomo is entitled to his opinion. But T-League is not the only league that has rules like next point wins when it's 10-10. MLTT calls this the Golden Point. I can't imagine how Tomo would react if he had to play the Golden Game. And Tomo has something on the order of 90% win rate in T-League...

Here are the pairings for the knockout stage to take place later today: Women: Miyuu Kihara Mao Takamori Misuzu Takeya Kaho Akae Kokona Muramatsu Rin Mende Yuna Ojio Miyu Nagasaki Men: Yuuma Tanagaki Shunto Iwaida Yuta Tanaka Ryusei Kawakami Yukiya Uda Mikita Tokuda Kazuki Hamada...

New rankings are out. Satsuki Odo +2 WR#12, Miu Hirano +31 WR#34, Sakura Yokoi +4 WR#28, Hitomi Sato +1 WR#22, Saki Shibata +4 WR#36.

2026 World Table Tennis Championships Team Competition National Qualifying Tournament Day 1 Livestream 1 Livestream 2 Day 2 Livestream 1 Livestream 2

Someone posted on X that Hirano, who made the finals in Chennai, was not able to make it back in time for the WTTTC trial and had to cancel.

Quite a number S. Korea/Japan doubles pairs. I know there are a lot of Korean players in T-League. Good to see the collaboration. I'm still hoping to see Joo Sae Hyuk training Honoka for a beast mode footwork and forehand :). Yukiya Uda/Oh Junsung Joo Cheonhui/Satsuki Odo Miyu Nagasaki/Shin...

Maybe things are different in CTTSL as I don't follow it, but they absolutely do care about the results in T-League. They've edited it out for online distribution, but I recall watching the livestream when Miu Hirano lost to Mikuu Izumo, the camera panned to ZYL consoling Hirano who was crying...

Congratulations Satsuki Odo. I didn't get to watch it live, but from the replay, Satsuki did a great job of forcing Hirano side to side. Odo served a lot of balls to the middle, both short and half long, and then worked the wings. It also looks like Hirano had a lot of trouble with the amount...

Congrats to Miu. Sakura really needs to work on her push game.

I picked Yokoi in post #40. Hurricane Hirano is playing well so it'll be an interesting match.

I'm picking Sakura Yokoi and Park Ganghyeon.

Congratulations to Yokoi/Aoki for taking the WD title. Sakura Yokoi is still in the SF of WS going up against compatriot, Miu Hirano, tomorrow.

It will be held in Habakino, Japan https://jtta.or.jp/tour/35020

Kihara and Nagasaki have a better excuse ... They have the trials for WTTTC on Feb 16-17. Singapore Smash Main Draw doesn't start until Feb 22.

:rolleyes:

Very impressive 3-0 victory for Sakura over KNY. Not only her patented BH, but her forehand has gotten so much better this past year.