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I'm surprised Hong Kong's Zhu Chengzhu is not playing WS. She would have a pretty good chance of winning. She played well at the XTWC with wins over Linda Bergstrom and Lea Rakovac (very strong Croatian player).

T League announces first overseas tournament to open next season in Taiwan! @Tony's Table Tennis , what do you know about this... can you comment on this, please?

I woke up too late to watch this live, but the NP Mallets (Odo/Yokoi/Sato) defeated NL Red Elf (Hina/JCH/Kaho). The biggest revelations was that Yokoi avenged her only T-League singles loss by beating JCH 3-0. Sato, who has really improved her offense, won the victory match over Kaho. Hina...

Tianrui Zhang (2594) 3 - 0 Jinbao Ma (2812) in R32.

Just watched an entertaining match between Chulong Nie and Ryan Lin in U19 Boys Singles. Ryan dominated G4 and had a 6-0 lead with aggressive play in G5. He tightened up a bit and it got to deuce. But Ryan Lin pulls off the 14-12 victory. You may remember that Chulong Nie was the LP player...

It's going to be a busy January for the Japanese players. WTT Champions Doha 2026 1/7-1/11 MEN WOMEN Tomokazu Harimoto Miwa Harimoto Sora Matsushima Mima Ito Shunsuke Togami Hina Hayata Yukiya Uda Honoka Hashimoto WTT Star Contender Doha 2026 1/13-1/18 MEN WOMEN Tomokazu...

Really proud of Tomo. The target of anti-Japanese racism in Chengdu, he comes back in full force to take the WTT Finals title. It's a shame the Olympics took away the MT/WT event. The Japanese MT is looking really strong.

Haven't seen anything official, but from https://www.chinadailyhk.com/hk/article/609279 With the total athlete quotas in table tennis still capped at 172, as same as in Paris, each National Olympic Committee will still have a maximum three paddlers in each gender qualified for LA28, meaning...

Honoka Hashimoto also has a chance, but her road is really difficult because most likely she'll have to find a way to be the 2nd highest ranked player to secure a spot. Despite being highly ranked and able to beat most Chinese players in WTT tournaments, one of Honoka's issues is that all of...

I don't know about that. I think I saw Hirano wearing a knee and back brace during a practice in some Douyin video. She didn't have any impressive results when she teamed up with Miwa for WD last year. The Miwa/Odo combo are ranked #2 winning 4 titles and making the finals of the Europe Smash...

Peak Odo is really amazing but hard to sustain over the course of a bo7. Looking forward to see what she'll do in '26.

It's true that they were T-League teammates, but I do have to give Odo extra credit as Sakura Yokoi is also on Satsuki's T-League team and is not anywhere near as good as Satsuki against choppers. Winning 4-0 against Honoka is really amazing.

Satsuki was brilliant. I think she even learned from her close match with Hitomi and didn't give Honoka hardly any opportunities to attack.

Just a note that starting this year, all singles matches are best of 7. Previously, it was bo7 starting in the SF. Tough draw for Sora (vs. WCQ) and Miwa (vs. WMY).

@Tony's Table Tennis , are you gonna just let Nextlevel surpass you like that? Come on! Get in the game!

Given that Tomo has a good history vs. LSD I can accept that. They didn't use Hina at all in their Stage 2 meeting. Regardless of the final outcome, why not use Togami/Hayata in Stage 3 where Togami/Miwa lost 3-0. In addition to being a lefty, Hina is a better doubles player than Miwa. But...

Not playing your best female doubles player at all?... I wonder if Hina is injured. Hope she's ok.

I think Choi Hyo Joo will get serious consideration for 3rd player at Olympics as a doubles specialist (both XD and WD). Despite being underpowered, she will occasionally use the full body loop kill to great effect. Her clever flicks and placement in addition to being a lefty make her quite...

A little levity during this tense tournament. Togami is hilarious.