I guess I kept quiet on the subject before. But I figure I may as well say what I saw.
The book on Harimoto is not that complicated. If you work the BH corner of the table he is pretty amazing and it won’t expose his weaknesses. If you try to dominate the BH corner on him he is as good as anyone.
But if you exploit the FH, his weaknesses start to show up.
In that match, I don’t see FZD exploiting Harimoto’s FH that much. I know FZD likes the BH side as well. But if he felt pressured to win, FZD May have used a completely different game strategy.
I would be surprised if the CNT coaches don’t know what I just said. And it is exactly what the Korean player who knocked Harimoto out of that tournament did.
But it makes no difference to me if that loss was strategic or not.
When ML lost to Koki Niwa it was not planned. But it never happened again. We’ll see if the CNT coaches are up to that task.
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