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She can join the club. Other than perhaps Miwa, who hasn't had tons of trouble against the top tier Chinese. She can still give Kuai Man trouble (1-1 H2H, 3-2 in KM's favor last meeting) and thrashed Shi Xunyao 3-0 at the 2025 Asian Cup. She's been around for a decade and is still in the top...

Sora Matsushima saves the day for the Japanese men. He had some fan girls in the stands chanting his name.

Odo dominates Szocs 3-0 and gets revenge for her loss to Szocs in Fukuoka Finals.

With the understanding that Mima can no longer beat the top tier Chinese, I'm sure the vast majority of pros would love to be as good as Mima and beat Sofia Polcanova 3-0.

It's crazy in my opinion to base NT/NT candidate off of one domestic tournament if the goal is to win internationally. Hashimoto faced fellow chopper in R32 and it went into expedite at the 2025 All Japan and lost 4-1. But she's had a fantastic 2024 beating a number of CNT players and making...

Still a ways down the road, but at least this gives Japan options. Problem with having Miwa doing everything (singles, XD, teams), is that she can spread herself thin as well as become susceptible to injury like Hina was.

But at least they will pair up for the WTTC. And this advertises Odo's XD prowess.

Interesting alliances are forming. I think Yoshimura and Odo are positioning themselves as one of, if not the best, Japanese XD pairing by beating Sora / Miwa and making the Finals here ahead of the WTTC.

Kaho Akae is well known in Japan TT. She is a T-League teammate of Hina Hayata. Still relatively young with solid all around skills but needs to develop confidence and experience.

Sato and Saki re-sign with NP Mallets. Hashimoto transfers to corporate team Denso. Unclear if she will play in T-League and for what team Table tennis players Sato Hitomi, Hashimoto Honoka, and Shibata Saki leave MIKI HOUSE to change their environment and take on the challenge of competing...

JTTA updated the Men's and Women's National Team Members. I don't understand how Honoka Hashimoto is not even on the NT candidates list. She should be on the National Team ????!!!!! Also, I don't understand how Yukiya Uda is not on the National Team. Women: 1 Hayata Hina Nippon Life...

Hashimoto is only 50 points away from Kihara. This is important because Kihara is the 6th highest ranked Japanese woman. The NER limit for Grand Smashes is 6 players per member association so Hashimoto is essentially fighting Kihara to get into the Smash events where greater prize money and...

Annett Kaufmann is entered in this tournament. Amazingly, she's ranked only WR#145. When at her best, she is Germany's best player. Let's see how far she can get. She should at least be able to get to the QF where she would probably meet Sakura Yokoi.

My recollection is that these are geared towards beginner and intermediate players whereas the Hayata H2 are for more advanced players.

On occasion there are male/female matchups. This can be advantageous if you have a strong female player on your team because your hope is that your female player wins at least one game and the other team's female loses all 3 games to your male player. De Santilan is a little bit higher in...

Yokoi is top seed and flying in from Star Contender Chennai. Yeh Yi-Tian also flying in from Star Contender Chennai.

No. I still believe we haven't seen the best of Hina even if Miwa surpasses her. Miwa is still only 16 and has a decade or more of dominance yet to be seen so there's plenty of time. In the meantime, I wanna support players like Hina and Honoka and what is remaining of their prime years. Of...

Congratulations to Miwa for surpassing Hina in the World Rankings. She is an amazing player. But now the hard part comes. Incheon starts on Tuesday but Miwa is fortunate in that her 1st match isn't until Thursday so she'll get some rest. She and Hina are in opposite halves so with some of the...

Many of the same players in this one as the first Feeder Otocec but no Sabine Winter. Can Saki make it two in a row, or will Hitomi Sato get her revenge? Just a Feeder, but at least they don't have to worry about bird droppings.