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Well, I'm not sure what time frame you were looking at, but here she is from 2025 Contender Taiyuan in April of last year so it's not a recent occurrence:

I remember reading an article when Honoka made the switch to Denso. She mentioned how grateful she was to Miki House for continuing to support her after the switch. Here she is at 2026 WTT Contender Lagos sporting her outfit prominently displaying both Denso *and* Miki House despite what...

Miki House continues to sponsor Honoka in addition to being sponsored by Denso.

The team unity is strong, but the cackle from the Tieban gallery likes to make something out of nothing.

Congratulations to all the tournament Champions

Cocona Muramatsu / Sachi Aoki take the WD title 3-0 and WTT Feeder Hennebont. Reina Aso / Joo Cheonhui take the WD title at Contender Lagos 3-1 over Shibata / Sato. Satsuki Odo is just too good against choppers and takes down Honoka Hashimoto 4-1 in the finals of WS at Lagos. I believe this...

All the overall score may not show it, Sato gave Odo quite the scare. With Odo up 2-0, it looked like it was going to be just another thrashing that Odo gives choppers. However, Sato storms back to 10-6 in G3 before the expedite rule is enforced. Odo wins the next 3 points so Sato calls timeout...

Not directly related to this thread, but what was scheduled as Star Contender London Sep 15-20 has now been replaced by Star Contender Astana (Kazakhstan) Sep 15-20. Simon Gauzy is not happy about this: https://x.com/GauzySimon/status/2057348586015244574

Miwa/Hina overcame Kuai Man/Chen Yi at the SF of the Singapore Smash eventually taking the WD title. This time China swaps Chen Yi for WMY.

Congratulations to Yuto Kizukuri and Natalia Bajor for winning the men's and women's singles titles. For Natalia this is her first senior WTT title. For Yuto this is his second Feeder title having won Feeder Havirov earlier this year.

Cocona is playing great table tennis having just turned 14 in April. Not only has she beaten top seeded Kaho, she beat Chien Tung Chuan of Taiwan 3-0 to make the WS SF where she faces compatriot Asuka Sasao. In MS, Yuto Kizukuri is into the SF.

Cocona takes out top seed Kaho Akae. Kaho must be having nightmares of playing her juniors. First, losing to Mao Takamori at the selection trial for the WTTTC and Cocona Muramatsu.

14 yr old Cocona Muramatsu passes through qualification rounds and makes the most of her main draw by beating Nomin Baasan of Sweden 3-2.

It's a risk, but I think Satsuki is likely to remain in the top 3 Japanese women. She's top seed at Contender Lagos next week and Contender Skopje in June. And perhaps with Hina playing less (passing on Lagos and Skopje), she wants to enter the selection tournament to secure a spot for the...

Some random final thoughts. Miwa had a nice breakthrough match against WMY. Hina had a frustrating final, but what can you do against SYS when she plays like that. OTOH, Hina scored more points against SYS than Miwa did. Hina needs to get stronger, recover faster between shots, maintain...

Miwa moves up 2 spots to WR#3. Hina moves back into the top 10 at WR#10. Honoka moves up a spot to WR#14. Togami moves up 3 spots to WR#15.

Ranking points earned from the WTTTC for Japan Tomo: 663 Sora: 368 Togami: 368 Miwa: 609 Hina: 365 Honoka: 304

Were you saying this *before* the JTTA made their decision which happened before Odo won SC Chennai and before she beat WMY?

We need Super Saiyan Miwa to come out!

As NL said, Honoka and Hina have never beaten WMY (or SYS). But KM lost 3-0 to Japanese chopper Hitomi Sato. KM has a 3-1 record vs. Hina. Hina did win their last match, but it was a close 3-2, 13-11. Choosing Honoka for match 3 was the right choice.