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Harimoto1 has more to tell back in Japan, mainly about how he has been able to reach and maintain the bare minimum of beating European players and players from countries other than China in order to secure a medal. Also touched on the group stage. Said he was treated like a child in the SF...

What Harimoto said about losing to Kallberg more and so is satisfied with his performance in this World Cup reminds me of my support for the latter to get the wild card over Boll at World Cup 2015. Talk about the return on investment 8.7 years later, where Kallberg still never disappoints (3-1...

Ito: I'm the only current Olympic gold medalist. WCT/DHK: The level of competition is higher than that of the last edition. 乒乓世界盃直擊︱黃鎮廷首戰落敗　與杜凱琹互相配合成就奧運資格...

Multiball fixes anything. No kidding.

Post-Match Interviews F ML on 4-3 LGY https://weibo.com/7556183438/OaNIWv4rT SYS on 4-3 WMY https://weibo.com/7556183438/OaMTYvyrQ SF Harimoto on 0-4 LGY https://weibo.com/7556183438/OaDXba0wz LGY https://weibo.com/7556183438/OaDWh1skx CM on 2-4 SYS https://weibo.com/7556183438/OaDGu3xAW SYS...

Post-Match Interviews SF Harimoto on 0-4 LGY https://weibo.com/7556183438/OaDXba0wz Harimoto says he played decently and didn't make many unforced errors, but he didn't expect LGY to play so well, that his loops were so fast yet still landed, that he had no chance. When asked about his left...

Still over 3000 pts apart. ML got 1500 (ITTF) + 3000 (CTTA) pts with his win. https://weibo.com/7360795486/NiUD0C12t

As noted, the WR to be released on 2024/7/16 will be the one used for seeding. The Race to Paris 2024 ones at ITTF are only for qualification by WR only (2024/5/7 for XD and 2024/6/18 for MS/WS). Projection for 2024/7/16 with WR points collected as of 2024/4/23 Hayata 3108-700+175=2583 SYB...

In 1/2023, FZD looked back on 2022 and said the match against Harimoto at WTTC was the most memorable. It's arguably more impressive than what FZD did at WTTC 2024. As I mentioned, if Harimoto had a true teammate like Hayata or Hirano at WTTC 2024 back at WTTC 2022, he would likely have become...

The World Cup 2024 thread turned into one about the problems from the likely non-paying audience (who also had a problem with the noisy paying audience), just saying...

Not surpass, but get past as I've always stressed. Waldner got past Jiang Jialiang in MT of WTTC 1989. The H2H was like 4-8 with Waldner trailing. ZJK got past ML at World Cup 2014, their first encounter in the major, despite ZJK trailing in H2H. ML said both of them wanted it as it marked a...

Translated this specific paragraph from part 5 of the interview, in which Harimoto discusses the experience gap between him and LJK being a deciding factor that he lost, like how FZD lost to ML at WTTC 2017 due to experience despite being the stronger. --Specifically, what areas do you want to...

ML winning here is not unlike Samsonov, who won his 3rd World Cup in 2009 at 33 after beating ML (3-4 Oh Sangeun in the Grp) and CQ. It still didn't change the fact that he didn't get past Waldner (3-0 and 3-2 Samsonov at WTTC 1997 and Sydney 2000, respectively) until the latter was already on...

Well, he did touch on that. We will see whether he waits for his turn or becomes another ZJK. Loosely speaking, he has already done it at WTTC 2022.

In a way, yes. Compared to KTTA, JTTA and DTTB could've done more (same for their top players). After incurring a huge debt with the ill-fated WTTC 2020, KTTA still held the ATTC 2023 and WTTC 2024, with free hospitality provided for the players, coaches and staff. That's a lot of money. I...

A Weibo user has posted the prize money breakdown. https://weibo.com/5229334406/Oap3niNJB 精神病院派来的猴子 04月19日 08:56 2024ITTF澳门男子及女子世界杯奖金和积分分布: 奖金池:100万美元 冠军:55000美元 1500分 亚军:35000美元 1050分 四强:25000美元 525分 八强:18000美元 265分 十六强:12000美元 130分 小组第二:7000美元 40分 小组第一:5000美元 15分

There's no point talking about longevity here. Like Harimoto pointed out, ML didn't get past WH and FZD didn't get past ML. Simple as that. WH was in front of ML just like ML was in front of FZD, and both failed to scale the wall.

Doesn't matter. I mean Boll is still winning with that chicken wing stroke.

As ML told in 3/2017, his worst-ever and most regrettable match is the one at WTTC 2013 and he felt like quitting for good after World Cup 2014.

ZJK against choppers with ABS ball. IIRC, he just came back from his hiatus for Hong Kong Open 2018. Hong Kong Open 2018 ZJK vs Ma Te Zhibo.TV event ZJK vs Hou Yingchao