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Back to back championships for Miwa. She had strong challenges from both Honoka and Miyu. Honoka and Miyu I think are #1 and #2 respectively in terms of biggest improvement in 2025. No shame in losing to Japan's best player.

I hope so. BTW, MD is short for Men's Doubles. XD is short for Mixed Doubles.

Showing your class I see.

Well deserved win for Miyu Nagasaki over Satsuku Odo. Miyu's had an amazing year. Hope it continues!

Maybe he can apply to be a ball kid man?

Miu Hirano returns to T-League from CSL. She wins a tight 3-2,11-8 match over Mika Tamura. But she loses the Victory Match to the same player, Mika Tamura. An amazing team victory for Kyoto Kaguya Rise over powerhouse Abyell.

Quoting 5ch users (and their fake, made up animosity) is not the same as quoting the actual article. I read the actual article on plus.world-tt.com . Her decision to leave her T-League team was in consultation with her T-League coach Masamori Oshima who knows she wants a shot at the Olympics...

He said he was at a summer camp practicing six days a week eight hours a day

Congrats to 12 year old, Miku Matsushima (sister of Sora), winning both the U17 and U15 at the 2025 WTT Youth Contender Hong Kong. In U17 she beat 14 year old Lu Yu-En of Taiwan. In U15 she beat 13 year old Cocona Muramatsu, another very promising young prospect. Miku is now 3-0 vs Cocona in...

An army of vocal SYS fans would be protesting inside and outside the arena if the two were ever in the same tournament!

Honoka Hashimoto joins forces with Satoshi Aida in XD in qualifiers. Aida in has been much more offensive than defensive so it should be an interesting combination.

Good topic, TensorBackhand, but maybe create a separate thread for it? I don't know in terms of what age they started, but ... Michael Jordan failed to make the varsity team as a sophomore in high school. He went on to become arguably the GOAT of basketball. Tom Brady was drafted in the 6th...

Yes, it includes Teams as well. A very nice setup for team China. Here's the section they added to the ITTF Handbook: c. Olympic Champions (Gold medallists in all sub-Events) are entitled to an entry into the Grand Smash Main Draw and Champions Events as Olympic Champions Gold Cards...

I think this is because WTT added the Olympic Gold Card rule which allows past Olympic champions to get automatic entry to Smashes / Champions events without the need for a wildcard/nomination and not count towards the NER limit. I think that is how China gets to have 6 women...

https://www.worldtabletennis.com/eventInfo?eventId=3093 We head over to Brazil for Star Contender Foz do Iguaçu. Top seeds are Buenos Aires champions Hugo Calderano in MS and Miwa Harimoto in WS. Honoka Hashimoto, WS Champion of Contender Lagos, is the 4th highest ranked player in WS, but she...

Miwa for sure is #1. Honoka I agree is #2. But now the hard part comes. Honoka has been fantastic against non-Japanese players, but she is going to have an an issue if she meets Mima or Satsuki early in the draw as both are prodigious against choppers... even the best chopper in the world...

All The Champions of 2025 WTT Contender Buenos Aires

Great debut for 13 yr old Kokona Muramatsu taking a game off of Fan Siqi and putting a lot of pressure on her throughout the match.

Yes, I mentioned this back in post #579 that she joins Top Nagoya, and her brother got promoted to manager of the team.

Not to take anything away from Sreeja as she's had a fantastic tournament, but even at her best I think top 10 is perhaps too high. Honoka Hashimoto doesn't even make top 10 after her points from Lagos. I think eventually Honoka will make top 10 though. If you put Sreeja in the top 10, then...