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The People of Honesty didn't seem to think so (see bottom link). But aside from that, Dignics and Tenergy are still better than their recent ESN counterparts in terms of weight-to-performance ratio. D05 and T05 are much lighter but still come out on top or hold their own in bounce and spin...

WS R16 CY 3-2 Kim Nayeong (-12, -7, 3, 5, 7) KNY showed a lot of promise back at WTT CT Zagreb 2022 where she took out KM, but then she faded into the background.

Ahem, I have a friend who is the childhood friend of DHK, and what have I learned about her game from that friend? Zilch. Lack of international exposure is an excuse. She started competing in 2014 and played a lot of top-tier events between 2016 and 2019 before the pandemic hit. She started...

Don't waste my time. Everybody gets what he is saying. Why did his opponent not freeze up? Because he is the better player that could cope with it. It's good that the OP is looking at himself for problems, but he's looking in the wrong place. Forcing big shots (higher motor unit recruitment...

WTT CT Almaty 2024 WS R16 Kihara 1-3 Yoo Siwoo Harimoto 2-3 Sasao Miwa:

WS R16 Kihara 1-3 Yoo Siwoo First cream-of-the-crop to lose to a non-CNT player in the LA 2028 cycle (last one to lose in Paris 2024 cycle)? Harimoto 2-3 Sasao Looks like Miwa has a cramp in her left calf. The shadow under the muscle bump looks abnormal.

WD QF Yokoi/Odo 3-2 Fan Siqi/Li Yake G5 15, 1311 That time of the month for Odo? Played like crap in the opening of G5 but recovered in time to make it to deuce.

They are at the age that should be playing non-stop. And it makes total sense to get a head start for LA 2028 like Hayata did for Paris 2024. Look at Hirano (forgoing the WS for WD of WT, too selfless) and Ito (forgoing the XD for WS and WD and later on WS only, too selfish).

Poor Chien Tung-Chuan. Losing again after Paris 2024, albeit much closer this time. I wrote over at MyTT once that she has the potential. Will need to work on her fitness.

That's what the OP is struggling with. He can't do it at will in rated events and he thinks it has to do with his mind. As it stands, the situation will just get worse if he forces the shots. In the last video, the guy in gray did a very good job of keeping the ball on the table, rarely hit...

Citing an example from tennis for future reference. In the post-match interview after winning WS gold (first Asian, male or female, to do so in tennis at the Olympics), Zheng Qinwen said she learned from her final defeat at Australian Open 2024, that she kept her head cooler than usual, played...

To me Uesawa gives off the vibe of Hayata and Nagasaki. I was reluctant to include her in the field of players for LA 2028 because she is the oldest among those born in 2007, yet her ranking is below those born in 2008 (started competing internationally in 2018 for 2 stops then in 2023 for 1...

As well as in Zennihon Takkyu. Yokoi has the MUCH better record in the senior event (SF in 2023 and 2024) whereas Odo has the MUCH better record in the junior event (GS Champion in 2020 and 2021). Odo always ran into her meanie senpai early (most notably R16 3-4 Hayata in 2021). FWIW, it...

For the record, she beat Hayata (1 H2H 2) and Harimoto (1 H2H 0) as well, but apparently those 3 hardly cared about the T.League, as she lost in all matchups against them in the selection trials. Of all the selection trials, her most notable win was against Ito at Zennihon Takkyu 2023. Yokoi...

In the latest episode of 我住在这里的理由/The Reason I Live Here, 竹內亮/TAKEUCHi Ryo, a Japanese filmmaker who now resides in Nanjing, interviews 森永匠一/MORINAGA Shoichi, another Japanese who has moved to Shanghai after retirement. The reason? Japanese historical revisionism. 当一个日本人直面历史【我住在这里的理由390】/When...

If anything, it's the Japanese media, journalists and scholars that are still on it. They still pump out articles every other day. Here is another one. 早田ひな「特攻資料館行きたい」は“戦争肯定”発言なのか？ 中韓から大非難の現実、戦争博物館の教育効果を考える【リレー連載】平和産業としての令和観光論（7） https://merkmal-biz.jp/post/74360

In his book 乒乓球有意思/Ping Pong Interesting, Wu Jingping goes into detail on LGY's FH being his downfall and why he didn't think highly of him from the very beginning. 吴敬平10年前就说不看好林高远，他有个技术问题太致命还改不了！-乒乓国球汇 https://www.sohu.com/a/607747373_555700 WJP delved into that in one of many paid Q&A...

To be frank, only Miwa is set for LA 2028. The odds for Hirano, Hayata and Ito are roughly the same if the selection system remains unchanged. There is no telling what happened to Ito wouldn't happen to Hayata and it doesn't have to do with injuries. It comes down to how she positions herself...

Yeah, that's quite revealing as Ito's name should've come first because qualification by WR is listed before the selection trial in the selection criteria. https://jtta.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/21180436/2024ajia_2025world_selection_criteria_0821.pdf

石田眞行/ISHIDA Mayuki (father of ISHIDA Daisuke) and Hayata's grandfather were approached by Daily Shincho and Shukan Bunshun for comments, respectively. Ishida said this is the first time he's heard about Hayata's interest in the Kamikaze pilots, that they talk about the war every year but he...