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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Chinese young , new players are not good enough, this is the first time no male player can pass qualify round and preliminary round. Only those seeded players stay at the tournament. China table tennis is in trouble , on the other hand, Japanese and Korea has some good new young players.

I think that you forgot about Liang Jingkun, right? :confused:
 
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Predictions for the lower half of the men's singles round of 32:

Wong Chun Ting vs An Ji Song 4:1

Sathiyan vs Lim Jonghoon 2:4

Aruna vs LJK 0:4

Harimoto vs Youngsik 4:2

Calderano vs Chen Chien An 4:1

Gauzy vs Cho Seung Min 4:0

Chuang vs Can Akkuzu 4:2

Lin Gaoyuan vs Kim Minhyeok 4:0
 
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Ok i am a bit behind here. Can someone explain to me, are players meant to be randomized after the knockout stage across all international competition?

Sounds like Korean TTA decided they want to randomize the winners of the knockout stage whereas ITTF rule says otherwise.

That's how I understand. Please shine some light on this.

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Chinese young , new players are not good enough, this is the first time no male player can pass qualify round and preliminary round. Only those seeded players stay at the tournament. China table tennis is in trouble , on the other hand, Japanese and Korea has some good new young players.

Too sad there are no promising young stars in the horizon for CNT, other than fzd. Complacency starts to rear its ugly head, it seems.

I wouldn't be too worried. Not too long ago LGL was complaining in an interview the lack of serious challenging competition, which is neither good for China nor for Tabletennis in general.
So now finally there seem to appear some challenging serious contenders and people are speaking of China in trouble and are getting worried already?
C'mon, guys... or does someone seriously think China will all of a sudden lose its interest in TT and hence will stop developing strong tabletennis players with all that long developed infrastructure in their back???

Well, I don't think so! Just doesn't sound realistic to me!
 
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Chinese young , new players are not good enough, this is the first time no male player can pass qualify round and preliminary round. Only those seeded players stay at the tournament. China table tennis is in trouble , on the other hand, Japanese and Korea has some good new young players.
Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan and Fan Zhendong are the young stars. FZD is the most consistent with a tough mentality.

Liang uses majority of BH during a game. Not a lot of variety.

Lin plays more various shots. But we know he needs to toughen up his mentality. Hopefully this will improve when he's a bit older.

But when these three stars turn 30, Harimoto will be early 20s. Hari can easily get two Olympic Gold consecutively if China doesn't produce any competitor. So far I can't see any hope apart from Wang Chuqin. But will see.

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Keeping Harimoto pinned down to his short FH works extremely well for JYS.

The 2nd game appeared to be a lost cause until 9:5 when Harimoto figured out something. Can't exactly point out what it is, but Harimoto held on.

Ok, Harimoto has adapted to JYS's game plan in the 3rd game by slowing down just a bit. JYS better have a plan B.

Harimoto regressed yet again. Tons of misses from forcing shots after shots.

The one facing the camera always loses. The pattern of game 5 follows that to a T. Harimoto off to a start but it got draggy afterwards. Kirishima called TO at 7:4. Good call there. Very crucial game.

Harimoto's FH slap at 5:4 was the last straw. That's really deflating. Can he break the spell? 10:8, 10:9...Yes, he can. Harimoto the Spell Breaker advances to the next round.
 
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First time he won against Youngsik. Now faces Lingkun who seems in good shape this tournament. I expect a win for Lingkun because he won't make so many unforced errors.
 
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So there's a new Queen in the house, Chen Meng it's getting faster and stronger I'm amazed, maybe only ZY can beat her in power I don't know... poor my Ding Ning

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It can't be helped. DN didn't sound that confident about the next match against CM in the interview yesterday.
 
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