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Another awesome performance from Honoka! GOAT female chopper... not even close.

All signs point to Odo being a very strong contender for LA2028. I think Japan Head Coach Nakazawa pairing Odo with Miwa and now personally coaching the XD pair of Sora / Odo shows his level of confidence in her. Beating ZYL 3-0 is just icing on the cake. I think Satsuki was very smart in how...

Let's go Miyu !

Bruna tied 2-2 right now with Chen Yi. Win or lose, Bruna has really defended her high ranking. In the past you could say ah yes, Continental boost, but the way she's playing her ranking is more reflective of her level.

The NER limit for a Grand Smash is 6 per country, and Miu Hirano is no longer top 6 Japanese woman. She would need to get a wildcard to get in. I'm assuming China will use their wildcards on their own players, but Miu Hirano has become very popular in China so who knows. Returning to the top...

Grand Smashes has a NER limit of 6 per country. Even without WCQ, HYZ does not fall within top 6..

I hope I'm wrong, but I'm just not seeing a long pants Marty Reisman playing hardbat doing much for the perception of table tennis. We actually do have a lot of things going for us albeit slowly: a national training center in 888, MLTT, a legit top 25 male player in Kanak, US Smash (I know.. I...

This young man, Wen Ruibo, is going to be downright scary with experience.

Sabine Winter just laid a beatdown on Bernie Szocs.

I dunno zeio... It almost seems like you're making the case for Togami. Uda won once as a junior over a decade ago and hasn't won since. Togami wins a recent encounter in straight games.

Kazuhiro Yoshimura posted this on X: By the way, upon checking with the person involved, it wasn’t Serve, but Aramiyan who complained to the referee, saying, “This guy’s got too many net shots,” and when Togami told him, “There’s no need to tell the referee,” he got furious. lol Aramiyan...

I think National Coach Nakazawa and to a lesser degree National Coach Keishikawa need to at least consider pulling the plug in the Nagasaki/OJS collaboration. Japan and S. Korea have good relations especially within the T-League so perhaps they're being careful. But they have no real results...

I'm a fan of a number of the top women TT pros, but that's pretty delusional to think SYS is top 15. She has trouble against Nikhil Kumar of the USA let alone a top 50 player. Tony's assessment sounds very sensible.

I haven't watched too many matches, but I was wondering has anyone seen TTR being used at all yet in this tournament? Or maybe everyone's cleaned up their services in anticipation.

The script was flipped between Charlotte Lutz and Jiangshan Guo. For those who don't know or don't recall, Jiangshan Guo, with long pips on the BH and an amateur at the time, beat pro male player Iba Diaw. But in the qualifiers of the Europe Smash, Charlotte had Jiangshan all frustrated...

Yes, Li Yu-Jhun and Diya Chitale (India National Champion) are very nice wins for her. A 2nd round meeting between two heavy hitters, Annett and Miyu Nagasaki, would be interesting. Miyu's game is more refined especially her receive and BH loop. But can never count out Annett who beat Miwa in...

No luck for Hana Goda. She faces SYS in the opening round. They faced off in R32 at the US Smash. To Hana's credit, she played SYS exceptionally well despite the loss 3-2,11-7. Mima Ito has the "easiest" path to the QF of all the Japanese women. Honoka has a very good chance to make the QF...

I swear. This is going to become a table tennis meme.

I'm picking Hugo. He's had the most time to prepare and should be well rested.

Chulong Nie 3 - 0 Andreas Levenko in R16. Chulong Nie 0 - 3 Kazuhiro Yoshimura in QF. Yoshimura gives Chulong nothing to work with on push and drives hard with little to no spin into the pips when he wants to attack.