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I can understand that Shinozuka it's a lefty so he'll more likely to raise his left hand up but Ito... Nagasaki just can't do it, beside having a good backhand she's pretty average compare to the top JPN women

I can't help but worry for Shinozuka tbh. His specialty is serve set up for the 3rd ball attack, the rest in his skill set are pretty average. Against power-type players like Pitchford, Liang JK and Fan ZD he's helpless

Imagine being 24 and already have to live in the past

valuable lesson "in tense situation, focus on 1 point at a time" or to put it bluntly "I just have to play consistently and my opponent will make all the dumb mistakes". When I read around 5ch, twitter and youtube comments, I found it surprising that japanese fans were pretty lenient towards...

You're right, then I guess players have to practice predicting the wide FH to have a quicker side step. Harimoto exploited this weakness of Togami quite well, especially on that Hari-bauer point and the 9-10 in the 7th set

it looks like It's really interesting that in both the 6th and the 7th, Harimoto up his match/set points by pushing deep to Togami's BH, Liang JK did the same at Taiyuan to win. On the side, I've notice moments when one was stretch on the wide FH by the other. Instead of using a cross step to...

Rewatching it, I want to applaud him for the chase he made from 5-10 to 9-10 in the 5th set. If Harimoto failed to close the set there he would've taken this match 4-1 as usual.

Much-needed win for Harimoto and much much-needed loss for Togami. Hari always proves his fighting spirit even during great adversity, he focuses on one point at a time without trying to go for the kill right away and varies spin/placement to invite mistakes from his opponent. Today god test him...

Things looking smooth for Hayata so far, her ability to hold the rally is superior

Yoshimura and Togami are very compatible as in they're both power hitter, I'm impressed that Yoshimura was able to stop Togami from pivoting from set 5 onwards, if his BH is as powerful as Liang JK he'd surely win.

lmao the difference in basics techniques is too visible. Yokoi can only fight desperately on her BH, Akae was a bit more balanced on both wings, but both don't possess a powerful FH. They either get blasted on their FH or trying to hold the BH rally before losing to Hayata and Miwa sheer...

Tanigaki pulled a Zhang Jike on 'em lmao, both at 78 and 1110, but this guy really has a weird grip, he sometimes puts his index finger high on the BH rubber when playing FH, idk where he learned this.

Harimoto is just not made for doubles lol, he's used to standing close in the middle of the table to counter. Doubles requires dynamic footwork which he doesn't possess because of his style. Furthermore, he often blocks and then looks for a chance to counterattack, but in doubles that means...

Tomokazu 4-2 Uda (4,6,-6,-9,8,10) Great show from both side with exciting rallies but Harimoto won at the end with his fluid defense + attack, he has a lot of lucky balls but I think that attest to his outstanding defense ability amongst Japanese players. For Uda, his Paris dream may have come...

I hope Uda can drag Harimoto to the final set, those 3 balls from 6-6 to 6-9 are too lucky for Harimoto

this year Togami join in on the "winning gold medal" talk lol most of the Japanese attackers adopt this close table highspeed counter-topspin style, but Togami was the most successful at this.

Bitter lost for Matsushima, should've change the placement after the let serve at 9-10, Shinozuka caught on it and flick directly to his bh

Mende even got blown out the water by Miwa the other day, I didn't know she could even drag Miu to a full game.

Togami 4-2 Kizuka (-8,7,2,9,-7,9) Kizuka plays really well for an all-round type player, even at the end I felt like Togami hasn't had him in the palm. If they went to the 7th I won't be able to tell who'll win.

what a somber way to end their partnership, just the other day I found out they used to have a share twitter account to post things about each other