Who do you think will win the Korea Open 2018?

  • Dimitrij Ovtcharov

    Votes: 2 2.8%
  • Lin Gaoyuan

    Votes: 14 19.7%
  • Xu Xin

    Votes: 24 33.8%
  • Wong Chun Ting

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lee Sangsu

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • Koki Niwa

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tomokazu Harimoto

    Votes: 19 26.8%
  • Hugo Calderano

    Votes: 4 5.6%
  • Simon Gauzy

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other (Post Below)

    Votes: 7 9.9%

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Expected loss for me. Harimoto can't play on the same level outside of Japan at the moment and Jingkun is extremely solid, almost no unforced errors in this match from him and his service receive was pretty good, unlike Ma Long in his last match.
 
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Players that Harimoto still has severe trouble playing the 2nd time:

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LJK
 
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I hope ishikawa kazumi can have the same results vs top chinese players like LSW , DN or the younger ones ZYL and CM . Also some news came out that tells Chinese players Zhang Jike, Fang Bo, Yan An, Zhou Qihao and Feng Yalan are withdrawing from the #2018 Australian Open of the #2018 July 24th -29 .

I suspect that these withdrawals are due to the CTTA rules/policy regarding World Tour participation: if you don’t qualify for the Main Draw, you don’t get to play the next tournament - even if you were already going to play it :-(
 
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the Chinese team has thoroughly studied Harimoto. Now he is the enemy nr. 1 of the Chinese table tennis. At the end of the match, Liang showed off the Chinese flag in his shirt, as if to prove that China is still the best country in table tennis. I think that Harimoto has not prepared enough for this match and that next time Liang will have serious difficulties in winning the game. Among other things, Liang but especially his coach were anti-sports claiming that he was given a point for taking the edge, but in reality, the ball had hit the outside of the edge.
 
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They decided to turn off the stream for table 1, where Ishikawa and Ito are playing, seriously?
 
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I suspect that these withdrawals are due to the CTTA rules/policy regarding World Tour participation: if you don’t qualify for the Main Draw, you don’t get to play the next tournament - even if you were already going to play it :-(

Yes, it's in the policy. You don't make it out of the groups? You're grounded. 1st round exit as a seed? You're grounded. Even if you're signed up for the next stop.
 
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The comments on the zhibo.tv streams are funny. Some say the match Ishikawa and Ito was fixed. Some say Ito is tired from playing Hu Limei, which actually makes sense.
 

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Liang showed off the Chinese flag in his shirt, as if to prove that China is still the best country in table tennis.


He better should prove he can win world tour events like this, Harimoto has many years ahead where he can improve his game and stamina and he already won 2 world tour events. Lingkun won't have this time.


Among other things, Liang but especially his coach were anti-sports claiming that he was given a point for taking the edge, but in reality, the ball had hit the outside of the edge.


Poor sportsmanship from Jingkun and his coach.
 
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the Chinese team has thoroughly studied Harimoto. Now he is the enemy nr. 1 of the Chinese table tennis. At the end of the match, Liang showed off the Chinese flag in his shirt, as if to prove that China is still the best country in table tennis. I think that Harimoto has not prepared enough for this match and that next time Liang will have serious difficulties in winning the game. Among other things, Liang but especially his coach were anti-sports claiming that he was given a point for taking the edge, but in reality, the ball had hit the outside of the edge.

This is actually not the 1st time. The same thing happened in the match between LJK and Matsudaira in 2017. Same behavior from LJK. Not an honest boy.
 
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