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Hayata Has a lot of place to improve. She have very good FH and BH, footwork is there and power as well. That works great for fast players who play simple game. But when the opponent has more varieties she is having hard times. For instance Kato is young but she has many gears and is very...

Sato had no idea what to do in last two games she stayed too defensive instead of changing tactics especially playing more offensive with FH topspin and make Hirano guessing. Hirano had the upper hand and deserved to win.

Boring, really??? She took down cheng meng and someones idol hayata. Maybe she does not have powerfull strokes but she is very inteligent and have big ability to change tactics and find opponents weaknesses. She is also quite calm and confident. I really do not understand how others can always...

In the meantime accuzu playing so relaxed against zhou Kai he made big progress.

Some interesting stats How many chinese players the beat to reach semifinals Sato - 0 Others - 2 How many sets they lost: Ishikawa -1 Kato -4 Sato -5 Hirano -6 Head to head (only what I found on the ittf tours) Ishikawa vs Kato 1:0 Sato vs Hirano 3:3 (last match Hirano won 4:0)

It is more. If any od them lost to lower ranked player besides chinese it will be huge disapointment and will be noticed by Japan headquaters.

I think uda yukija will beat xiang peng

watching ML and Dima looks like two grandpas playing. Both of them are very slow.

I am thinking about ITO ranking for Olympics. Maybe somebody could enlight me with the rules from which month they will take ranking for olympics. For now CM has quite big advantage: 1600 points over LSW and 2200 over SYS but I will be very surprised if she will be selected for Olympics...

I think others had same problem with humidity, so I wouldn't take it as excuse. Anyway Ito rulled the table and was deffinitely better then SYS. It would be very good to see all top japanese and chinese player after longer break in action. They all look exhausted.

very easy it is on ITTF 2019 including japanese players: hirano: 6 hayata: 5 ishikawa: 5 It does not say much. Depends how long ago it was and who the lost if this was top 10 player or top 50 player.

Good explanation but I just gave one example. The other one is Ishikawa is capable to win at least one of two games so Hayata can loose single. What I mean is that all women Japanese players do make a progress (even Ishikawa) so it is not easy to choose one who deserves it the most. Modern...

Well somebody has to sit down. I chose Hayata since she is the best doubles player in Japan and I am more convinced about Ishikawa over Hirano but lets not start this subject (it is like neverending story:)). Anyway in current Ito form any configuration should easily lead them to final. So...

This is totaly different thing. Both teams Men and Women how just one top player which is undisputed: Ito and Hariomoto. The difference is girls side is packed with very good players who have very good year fighting, improving and beating chinese players (ishikawa, hayata, hirano, kato, sato...

I think we are not that far from each other. I am not choosing injured or blind players. ML is having big break now probably connected to his injury. But if there was something like in japan (top 2 players from ranking) he might not have enough time to reach top 2. Meaning they will choose XX...

There is a big difference between them, just check how many national championships mizutani has and how many Niwa (many times he never advanced to the final or even semis). Take how many ittf cups niwa won and how many mizutani. The same would be if china takes LGY over Ma long just because he...

It would be much easier if they take this year points gained. Anyway mizutani skills are much higher then Niwa. He had bad period which could be connected to his private life. Now he seems to be back on form, good match against dima and good start against LGY. Of course they can choose whoever...

NL: yes but it was quite long ago and from that time he mostly lost every match he player. T/C: Yes I know what you mean. But do you really think JTTA will choose Niwa over Mizutani? I think rules can be changed

I just do not see koki niwa Play singles in olympics. I cannot understand how he can take singles spot having worst year in his career.

Anybody knows why they Play fast 5 in fifth set while it was still 25 seconds left?