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JPN's Judo management is there again.

G4 opening, Dumb Hayata; middlegame, Smart Hayata; endgame, Great Wall of China

G1 Smart Hayata G2 Dumb Hayata G3 TTQ 200 Harimoto/Hayata G4 opening, Dumb Hayata; middlegame, Smart Hayata; endgame, Great Wall of China G5 Retire, Hay... How hard was it to keep the ball on the table?

XTWC 2023.

White Hair: Emergency, that is. https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/jtta-selection-system-to-be-revamped-for-paris-2024.24977/post-441893

Used to be the case, but that rule has been relaxed in recent decades. 韩阳/HAN Yang (his Chinese name in Pinyin), 韓陽/KAN Yo (transliteration in Japanese) is an example. For Harimoto, the family adopted a Japanese sounding last name, the brother was known as 张智和/Zhang Zhihe in Chinese before he...

That's the idea. WCQ and SYS will probably play 2 events only at LA 2028. Harimoto and Hayata also ended in disaster this time.

Have been for years. They tell him to go back to China when he loses (he was born in Japan but that alone doesn't grant citizenship) and yet act like he is pure-blood Japanese when he wins, especially against China. Typical honne and tatamae of the Japanese culture and society. 表裏不一。 Many...

JJH: 100% loss-rate in WS... T_T

For the time being, that looks to be the most probable forecast. WCQ/SYS will probably be replaced by LSD/KM in the next cycle if the latter pair wins WTTC 2025.

Lee Eun-Hye/李恩惠 (original name 赵青): I beat Ishikawa 4-0 at Hong Kong Open 2018. You're just another Ishikawa to me, Kaufmann! Harimoto: I'm also ethnic Chinese, why the difference? T_T Lee Eun-Hye: I was born in China!

If true, that rumor would explain WCQ's R32 exit. WCQ and CM are said to have been going out for a while...

Wan Yuan and SXN have figured out a way to get SYB/JJH to sweat with parallel shots to their middle to push them away from the table and then pin SYB down to her BH corner/move JJH to her wide FH corner with diagonal shots. A close shave for the KOR pair. The GER pair missed 2 crucial points...

WTTC 2023 WD Vice Champions/Asian Games 2022 WD Champions SYB/JJH: Is this really the first collaboration for Wan Yuan/SXN?

Well, 以己度人 eventually boomerangs unto the perpetrator. WADA statement on Reuters story exposing USADA scheme in contravention of World Anti-Doping Code https://www.wada-ama.org/en/news/wada-statement-reuters-story-exposing-usada-scheme-contravention-world-anti-doping-code

CM wouldn't have gotten her singles spot had the CNT not been forced by the Central Government to kick out WYD by extending the deadline. WMY would've been the one to play WS with the original deadline.

Still early to tell for Kaufmann, who didn't have high expectations beforehand would've performed better with less pressure. People will study her from now on. Think Miwa. She has had a hard time against non-CNT players that you wouldn't have expected since WTTC 2024. Moregard had lost left...

Hmm, he has a history of crashing out early in the past. WCQ and LGY left behind the worst results for China in 39 years at Asian Cup 2022 in Nov, with the former having come off 2 titles at WTT CS Macao 2022 and WTT CF Xinxiang 2022 a little over 2 weeks earlier. Same thing for WTT SCT ESS...

In the latest interview, DHK reveals that in addition to the golfer's elbow, she is also suffering from dystonia, the same medical condition that affects Soo Wai Yam Minnie. She thought about retiring at the end of 2023. After finishing this Olympics, she suggested to the team that they looked...

As I noted in the thought experiment with NextLevel, Harimoto was an unknown (not equivalent to weakest but a volatile variable) because of that match with DHK at WTTC 2024, and between Hayata and Hirano, the latter was still the more reliable player given the history of the former. That...