Edward Ly didn't have any trouble against Olah beating him 3 straight. He gets into his offense early and often and was able to attack Olah's reverse pendulum that Kanak was having trouble with. We'll see both of them in MLTT.
Taiwan has some promising young talent. Kao Cheng-Jui beat Zhou Kai of China. And although he lost in the 1st round of the main draw, Taiwan's 16 year old Hung Jing-Kai beat China's 18 yr old Chen Yuanyu in the qualifier to get to the main draw.
Sato and Hashimoto of course advance to the Main Draw. Yuta Tanaka impressively beat Fanbo Meng 3 straight 8,9,3 following his Feeder Cappadocia title. Kanak Jha is up next on Table 2.
If you go frame by frame starting from the point the ball leaves the hand, it looks within 30 degrees of vertical. Mentally breaking the 90 degree square using table as bottom base into thirds from where he tossed to the ball's apex it appears to fall within the first third starting from...
I don't agree with Anders demonstration of what he says is incredibly illegal due to verticality. It has to be within 30 degrees of vertical. In his demo he says it's probably like 60 degrees which it does not look like to me. Here's his video at the timestamp where he demos an "illegal" serve:
Good news for Kanak. Just saw through my X feed that Kanak Jha got a WTT nomination to WTT Champions Chongqing along with CXT. Host Wildcards given to Xiang Peng and He Zhuojia.