Also felt they are tucking her up on the body more than ever, saw cheng meng start serving from the middle of the table to her body ... and then not let her open up her arms to play those powerful shots she was doing earlier ..
you and NL both got it right
HIRANO said in an interview after the match that the Chinese would not let her develop her game. She couldn't use her BH attacks. She said she had a lot of difficulties dealing with long underspin pushes, and her opponent targetted her. She also said she didn't get any cheap point in serve/receive this time and in rallies it was tough... TLDR she said she has to improve a lot if she wants to beat the Chinese again and said she hopes to do better at the coming China and Australia open.
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MIZUTANI said he wasn't playing his best against LSS but much better than at WTTC. He said his YG serve was key to winning the match, and is happy to have won this match although he wasn't playing very well.
ITO was crying after losing to WANG , and said that if she can't beat the Chinese today it would be even more difficult in the future...
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regarding the Open, there was a horde of young Chinese female fans shouting "ZHANG Jike JIAYOU", sorry MA Long... there was a Chinese flag and many banners cheering for MA Long FAN Zhendong and others. The Japanese public was just clapping hands, but the Chinese fans were more vocal.
The only other fans you could hear shouting is the French ones (aka my friend and myself)... TBH we were sitting close to all the French National Team, but we were the ones wearing the official French shirt , (same than Lebesson) while the rest of the team was in casual clothes...
I was cheering for ITO and shouting her name, but i was the only one to do so. Actually the Japanese public started being vocal only at 8-10 match in the last point, matchpoint against ITO... very sad... Next week it's the Chinese Open, its gonna be even worse for the Japanese / non-Chinese players....