Hirano Just retire!
She showed nothing special and nothing New. Doo hoi kem did good work fighting cheng meng who is now much better then DN. Remember that Doo barely beat ishikawa.
I do not see this problem as lack of creativity. She is just worse player and that is it. She has same problem like Mizutani, they cannot beat top chinese players because they are not agressive and they do not have power in their shots (few years ago I heard mizutani complaing about power in his...
yes I think it is about culture, we have in Poland one club where they are truly loud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylIrWeyw6NA
Maybe it is a good way to beat china, usualy they are the loudest.
sorry guys I cannot watch hirano playing. She has no idea what to do besides playing diagonally BH to BH. She is here for a while and I do not see any development from her. For me she is the worst player in JNT.
ZYL played really poor and still she managed to win.
interesting first set hirano vs zhu - they are both very nervous.
Zhu was leading 5:0
then Hirano took 7 points in a row
Zhu 1 point to 6:7
Hirano next 3 poins to have 10:6
Zhu came back with 3 direct points
With 10:9 hirano took time out (i think unnecesary) but she got lucky with the edge.
They should talk more about hirano who cannot pick up her form and looses to much lower ranked opponents. How long others are going to say she is still young - next 5 years?
If there is nobody better that is fine, but they have some also very young girlanda like hayata or kato who could develop...
I think everything was like the last time they met until Ding came up with new service at the end of game 1 and 2. Those crucial moments frustrated Ito since she was little bit better in those games.
yes he is BH oriented player, look how he receives serves, his right foot is always in front - you do not see it often.
LGY as usual having problems with long serves to his BH