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Tsk, tsk, tsk, stakes! Hirano lost 2-4 in QF after leading 2-1 at Zennoh Cup Hiratsuka in early May (Ito 2-4 Nagasaki in R16), only to win 4-0 at Zennoh Cup Tokyo in late July (Ito 4-3 Hirano in SF, Hirano had 2 match points). It's very clear by now that, in this cycle, Hirano's true form only...

Headband FZD looks so adorable. Same verdict for Moregard.

Back at the WTTC 2013 trial, in the match against ML (I think LJK lost 2-3 after being up 2 games), the color commentator who was a (provincial?) coach (can't remember who) said LJK was a practitioner of the then-latest generation play style (7th?) and if he could master it, he would be...

Mizutani also thinks JTTA should have returned the favor to CTTA for having allowed so many of their players (14 in total, highest-ever) to participate in the T.League this season. Miyazaki is now taking the heat and has to apologize for causing trouble to T.League, which has only started...

Check out Hayata's stats after ATTC 2023, Asian Games 2022 and WTT SCT Lanzhou 2023, which is, in all honestly, not good enough. If you look at her stats against China, it becomes bleak. Unlike Hirano and Ito in the Tokyo 2020 cycle, Hayata has yet to defeat top CNT players all the way to win...

They probably had a deal. CTTA lets their current/former players take part in the T. League (a rare occurrence) and JTTA is expected to return the favor. Even DTTB sent a team to WTTC 2022. JTTA, which has been reduced to a lame duck after WTTC 2015, is asking for trouble here...

Japan-China decoupling? I'm curious who those 2 female players are, Hayata and Harimoto? JTTA express on 10/25 they won't participate because they couldn't secure a 3rd female player. On 10/26, CTTA withdraw all CNT players (14 of them) from the T.League season 2023-2024...

Certainly what German fans rightly expect from us. ;) Gauzy can't help but teases Germany on the MS draw. 高茨老哥开始吐槽了 https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8667887812

Harimoto will have to get past Kihara and Nagasaki first. She has scored a 3-2 win against Nagasaki recently at WTT CT Tunis 2023, but other than that, she has NEVER beaten Kihara and Hayata domestically or internationally. International and league matches not included Harimoto 0 H2H 3 Hayata...

Bumping this up for future reference. 方博:王皓拉球历史第一爆！柳承敏王励勤也没有王皓爆！！一次拉球拉爆俩块板！！！ (Fang Bo: Wang Hao has the most explosive loop in history! Even Ryu Seungmin and Wang Liqin can't match!! One loop wrecks two rackets!!!) [url unfurl=false]https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1GC4y1d77e[/url]...

Fang Bo would beg to differ. 如何看待方博认为王皓最爆 (How to treat Fang Bo's opinion that Wang Hao is the most explosive) [url unfurl=false]https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8642669160[/url] 关于王皓拉球是否是历史最冲 后续 (Follow-up on whether Wang Hao has the most explosive loop in history) [url...

By the same token, WCT lost to Togami (in a match with very low stakes for WCT) and in turn Togami lost to Matsushima (in a match with very low stakes for Togami), so using that as an argument to build a case against Togami for losing to ML and Matsushima sounds much more weird than attributing...

First and foremost, I always got reminded that WCT is overrated. Remember how Harimoto got covid in mid-August and he thought he was going to die? ML had recovered from covid not that long and lost to Yoshimura at the Asia Continental Stage of WTTC 2023 at the start of the year. Hayata lost...

Togami isn't coined "全年备战张本/prepping for Harimoto year-round" by Tieba and 5ch users for nothing. Also, he was bothered by injuries and poor form at Zennoh Cup Tokyo back in late July. There's been no follow-up news on that so we don't know if he was at 100% the past 2 months. Uda, close to...

No, really, "he" is. https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8438527222 https://tieba.baidu.com/p/8470014469

3-4cm at best, which is ~1.18-1.57 inches. Togami and Hayata standing next to each other is the best proof. Miwa's head is tilted forward in that picture. Here is Miwa's brother and Hayata standing next to each other. Hayata's eyes line up to about Miwa's brother's lips, so? Miwa's brother...

You could be comparing "hair height" here (just ignore the insoles/shoes for the time being). Look back on how the height of Kihara and Nagasaki looked to you in 2019. In 2023, both of them still stand at 164cm. 2019 [url...

In 11/2020, it is reported that JTTA officials even expected Matsushima to have a very good chance of becoming a mainstay of the national team for Paris 2024 when he will turn 17. 【Ｔリーグ】１３歳・松島輝空が初参戦…２４年パリ五輪で「代表の主力になる可能性も十分」 [url...

Matsushima comes from a table tennis family (his grandparents own a club and both parents coach there) and that plays a big role in people, especially those in Japan, exercising more caution and putting him under scrutiny. His grandfather's brother is a former WTTC MS bronze medalist (see quote...

That's similar to how Boll is seen in Europe, in contrast to Liu Guozheng who thinks Boll is soft. Despite what real TT fans think (see Tieba thread below), Mizutani and the Japanese mass media have been very good at capitalizing on his 五輪金/Olympic gold whenever he makes a TV appearance. Many...