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Japan really needs Kihara to come through and block Shin or else there is no chance of forcing Shin to a lower seeding... but the match doesn't seem to be going Kihara's way.

Will Shin be the first successful avenger today?

Yeah, but the injuries are a part of the sport and are not going anywhere. Pavade played well. Beating Ito and Hirano. Maybe we need to sub Miwa in for Hirano for Olympics (Hirano will never take it of course)? Who is the reserve for Japan?

Everyone is targeting Japan it seems, not just the Koreans lol.

Nah, Togami is still the #2 and you can't expect lightning to strike twice and Japan to win doubles with two lefties.

This has been evident for a while but her poor backhand slowed her progress - she is much better with it now. As a pure athlete though, none of the players have anything on her.

Looks like no one got revenge from their last match. Pavade more than anyone else confirmed that she knows how to serve Ito off the table (Ito couldn't get errors from Pavade surprisingly) and that her forehand can damage Ito when Ito lets the ball sit. Got to a point Ito started missing...

Timo defaults to Felix as far as I can see. Should this man be really playing the Olympics? Franziska doesn't help his cause by losing to Cho but since Dang also lost to Sora, I guess there is balance in the force somewhere. And Dima barely defeats Kiril who will be an absolute nightmare for...

Kihara windmill inside out forehand to finish the match. Not common in the women's game or at that level.

Looks like the Koreans came prepared to fight the Japanese women today.

Looks like the revenge candidates are not getting their revenge so far....

You are not different from anyone else, there are many shots I can do in practice but which I would struggle to do or remember to do in a match, even Ma Long and. FAN Zhendong have things they can do in practice but which they cannot do under match pressure against each other or which they just...

They are just talking about your playing level, not really how you play. Because of your relative lack of experience, you imagine yourself to be doing things that are not what you are actually doing and that is perfectly normal. Flat hitting vs looping is not a big deal, everyone plays with...

Poor Sweden, the only player playing well is the one not going to the Olympics lol.

Darko loses go Kiril. Another tough Bundesliga match but I feel for Darko since this is his home tournament.

Which was not the case vs Togami and Kao Cheng Jui and is often not the case vs Felix either. Harimoto really has a talent for close to the table play, hopefully the balance will be struck between his new style and his gifts.

Again: do not confuse my knowledge or lack thereof with your desire to bellyache and tell professional players how to manage their careers. It is always one arrogant excuse after another. And pretending to be omniscient when doing it. One claim was that Hirano had never been straight setted...

The home court feeling is strong here. Very strong here. Even though technically Zagreb should have been Gacina's home court. This is only an hour or two drive from there...

Usually, in table tennis. If you can, it is beat to just try stuff. It doesn't always work out the way you think it will in your head, but sometimes it does. And most improvement comes from technical work until your game is mature so any equipment always needs to ba adapted to. IMHO, H3 is...

Fate... Harimoto was fated to play Alexis...a TT form of Final Destination. That is clearly the match of tomorrow. I guess we get to see whether the path of Harimoto goes anywhere...