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last year, i experienced several times the pleasure of beating guys i had never beaten before. But the extra pleasure is that while i always lost to them in the training matches, in our (only) tournament showdown, i came out as the winner. and to make it more fun, back at training, i keep...

Well played MOG, judging by the numbers of times he looked at his racket at the end of the match, he's going to spend 200 pounds at least on a new one after this match...

some populations in Europe are very aged as well, for example Italy during the 1st wave, Japan nowhere had casualty figures near italian ones. Even if the epidemic picks up from here, i doubt very much we'll see many casualties like in Europe / US in Japan. its not a question of immunity...

new cases is not the good metric. how many people infected are actually heavily sick ?? if 95% of them have no or little symptoms its not a big deal

seriously, last year, after a fantastic showing at the Rugby World Cup, one of the top player of the Japanese team, Kenki Fukuoka said he would stop his career to become a doctor. But he was already 27 at the time...

@ajtatosmano2 Yes OYA and Kenta are in the same club now. KISHIKAWA is also there as well as Maharu YOSHIMURA. They've known each other for long. I think OYA genuinely loves TT, and he likes teaching kids amateurs and grandmas alike. He is very joyful during the sessions, you'll him pump up...

it would be so cool that Harimoto wins Tokyo Olympics and then announces he stops his professional career to become a doctor ! and then we next hear of him winning the Nobel Prize in a couple decades

btw last week the weekly "Takkyu Japan" TV Program' guest was Jun MIZUTANI. He was asked about his mixed doubles partnership with ITO. Actually he met ITO for the first time when she was still a very young kid and they met again and played together many times over the years. He said (with fun)...

Today i was training with my coach Hidetoshi OYA as usual on Thursday in the local gymnasium. Misaki MORIZONO showed up. The other day it was FOERSTER (MIZUTANI ex-coach) training with Hibiki TAZOE. The venue is getting popular with pro players as well ! BTW, i knew coach OYA was very strong...

not just in some competition, that was in SF and in Final of World Championships !

this WE , i was down 0-2 and saved matchpoint in the 3rd, went up 8-6 in the 5th.... then it started to go all wrong, i started choking with no reason, i served in the net for example, and the opponent also landed all his risky shots, and lost 9-11. I am soooo upset

i never give pity point in a competition, but thats because i never win 10-0 ! but i do lose 0-11 occasionally. Usually when i'm 0-10 down i like to miss intentionally the last point to avoid the other guy giving it to me, unless its matchpoint. Mind games :-) I'm projecting myself already on...

ouch come on Koki !

@Zeio who is Kasumi's boyfriend ?

btw i changed to Dignics80 and very happy with the change ! I don't want to be playing with my old setup again. I still have my spare racket Korbel + T80 + Spinart. Its totally unusable for me now...

well for me losing game 1 in my second match was like getting a big punch on the face. So far my opponent wasn't playing very well as well, I had been always in the lead in game 1, and I was 10-8 up with my serve. I did something I usually NEVER do that late in a set, I CHANGED my serve to...

We had a team tournament this Monday. We were in a block of 4 teams this time. Each match is 5 singles. We can put 4 or 5 players on the playing sheet. Played twice (1st and 3rd team match). Opponents were better than me, especially the 1st one who was at least 2 or 3 levels above. But I...

@zeio I hope you haven't missed this program about our idol

Fortunately local events in Japan are maintained so far :-)

wow i didn't remember that Asian Championships competition. WTF thats an incredible opportunity missed. No wonder that after this Mizutani struggled so much mentally against Chinese players, and Xu Xin in particular for so long and Matsudaira ! wtf he was so much talented then, and did...