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wow its getting very interesting ! a decider between Hirano and Ito ! Hirano was 8-7 in G6 but lost 10-12 ! some incredible reflex shots from both side !

Champions du monde

Both are Chibi

They both are equally sized

maybe she wanted to play Mende ?

salut Vlady

in the current tournament there is the open category, and also the JUNIOR category which is up to high school students (18) if im correct in younger categories, there is also an All-Japan tournament but the dates are different. for veteran categories, the tournament is called "All-Japan Masters"

there were 32 top seeds, basically the players which attained R32 last year. all others had to win their place through a qualification tournament hosted in their prefecture. the qualification tournament is totally open. Basically any person registered in the prefecture can participate. [there...

some R3 results Miku MATSUSHIMA lost to a 15yo MAKINO 1-3 (she's also playing in TLeague) Haruna OJIO goes through, but Yuna OJIO is out of the tournament JIN Takuya ousts Yuto KIZUKURI other "famous" qualified players include Kazuhiro YOSHIMURA, Ryuzaki TONIN, Kohei SAMBEI in R4 tomorrow...

lot of kids are like that. Last month i played a girl who was in elementary school, maybe younger than Miku. I made her cry... but i almost lost ! she started crying in G4, i got match point and she won ! she cried again in G5 but she couldn't complete the come back ! she was very good for her...

Japanese sometimes can’t even read names. Because there are different ways to pronounce kanjis. In those cases They need the kanas.

this was her R1 match. here is the end of G5 yep Miku is almost crying... i saw more footage on TV, Miku did some really superplay with her BH, some incredible trajectories. almost parallel to the net... her opponent was a high school student she also won her R2 match

Miu HIRANO's older sister Ako (?) advances to round 3

He lost 0-3 in first round. Not really a surprise given he was finished 3rd and last qualifier of his “small” prefecture (Saga in Kyushu). But GG

Her first name is Miku

one of Simon Gauzy's favourite shot. i sometimes do it against leftie pendulum serve when im very inspired but success rate is low

seriously in Japan there is the official federation called JTTA that everyone knows, where pros are registered. They do organize All-Japan veteran championships, they call it "All-Japan Masters" and long-term resident foreigners are allowed to play. I'd dream to win this someday. but even in my...

become all-Japan champion

actually foreigners are not allowed to play in Zennihon singles. only doubles. but they have of course to earn their place through a qualification tournament. [there is one for each prefecture] I did try already 4 times just because we're allowed to, although we know we have no chance at all...

I “kinda” participated in zennihon today. I went to a big venue (Yokohama Budokan) and became a practice partner for a guy from Kyushu playing first round tomorrow. We played 6 sets in total and unfortunately i got beaten badly but there were a few “super play” to be happy about. Of course...