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Wang Chuqin destroyed Jingkun with 4:0 and Fan Zhendong lost again to Lin Gaoyuan.

Always the same play style which clearly doesn't work, no variation. Simply not good enough. I think it's better in the long-term he should get a tournament break in favour of more home practice. Such tournaments like this are not helpful for him anymore.

Harimoto is so hopeless against Wang Chuqin, he is way too strong for him. This is no contest.

What is depressing about his answers? He is realistic. I'm worried about his progress lately, he is still very young but it won't guarantee a major breakthrough. Lin Yu-Ju outpaced him and he isn't that much older.

He is on a decline.

Niwa is in such a bad shape, basically he loses every game lately.

LIN Yun-Ju is clearly the best player outside from China right now, he is the biggest threat for China.

You can watch it on sportdeutschland.tv

Harimoto always struggles against the young guns, no matter if it's Pletea, Moregards, Wang Chuqin, Lin Yun-Ju, it's a trauma.

Jorgic lost a very close match against Zhao Zihao 9:11 in the decider. Another letdown for Kenta Matsudaira, he lost 3-4 to Tomas Tregler.

Kurashima didn't coach the final either, was he ill?

Easy win for Harimoto in the end. I think this is Harimotos 4th win on the world tour.

If his performance drops even more in the next months I'm not sure if he goes to olympics. Unfortunately Niwa isn't better either at the moment. Even though they could be lucky because no better options are available, other players like Matsudaira or Jin Ueda disappeared. What happened to...

It's a difficult situation for Japan with Niwa and Mizutani out of form with the next year Olympics coming.

Pucar and Asuka Machi withdrawn from the singles as well as Sudi/Ecseki in the doubles, so maybe there is more illness involved.

Looks like LIN Yun-Ju is the real deal in future. Unlike Harimoto his game is complete, there is no real weakness. His FH technique is much better.

She could get a wildcard.

Franziska wins agains Jingkun, great. The last tournament wasn't a fluke, he is really good. Clearly better than Ovtcharov nowadays.

Because they lost so much recently, not long ago they were Top 10. Same goes to Matsudaira who completely disappeared. Mizutani lost to players like Karlsson and Groth recently and Niwa just won 1 games within the last 5-6 tournaments.

All japanese men are in a terrible shape since weeks or months. All three faced non chinese players - a big opportunity - but all three lost! Niwa is losing basically every match, Mizutani is in a decline and even Harimoto plays way below his usual level. What the hell they are doing? Do they...