Japan National Championships 2019

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Thanks. Really strong from Kihara and Hayata gets better and better. Who is playing in the mens quarterfinal?

Tomokazu HARIMOTO - Maharu YOSHIMURA
Yuya OSHIMA - Hibiki TAZOE

Asuka MACHI (edited) - Yuto KIZUKURI
Koki NIWA - Jun MIZUTANI
 
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Tomokazu HARIMOTO - Maharu YOSHIMURA
Yuya OSHIMA - Hibiki TAZOE

Asuka MACHI (edited) - Yuto KIZUKURI
Koki NIWA - Jun MIZUTANI
Wouldn't be surprised if Harimoto loses. He really struggled in the previous round against Tazoe. He seems to be out of form, that or maybe because he is the favorite and expected winner he can't handle to pressure.
 
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Wouldn't be surprised if Harimoto loses. He really struggled in the previous round against Tazoe. He seems to be out of form, that or maybe because he is the favorite and expected winner he can't handle to pressure.

naaahhhh he's gonna win it easily. In tournaments, the eventual winner has always one difficult match in road to the title, not necessary the final itself. Its been a warning to him, he won't repeat the same mistakes twice.
 
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naaahhhh he's gonna win it easily. In tournaments, the eventual winner has always one difficult match in road to the title, not necessary the final itself. Its been a warning to him, he won't repeat the same mistakes twice.
This might be the same case as it was in Youth Olympics where he had 2 difficult matches against Pletea and Lin Yun Ju in the road to the final and then in the final itself he got steamrolled by WCQ. And let me remind you that he was the favorite in that tournament as well.
 
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The match against Tazoe was nothing. It was the previous round against Ryotaro Ogata where Harimoto was down 1:6 in game 7 that had people on the edge.
 

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Actually off topic. I am curios. Japanese are admired of Harimoto. Harimoto is like Ovtcharov. is Ovtcharov realy German? It does not sound German actually his parents are ukrainian. Why Zhang surname is forced to change to Harimoto ? Ovtcharov still has has his original name. Would it look bad that Best japanese is Zhang?
 
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No not really. Ovtcharov was born in Ukraine and is German now while Harimoto was born in Japan.
 
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Live now...
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Absolutely destroyed.

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MD "Final"
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It was all Harimoto's effort in winning game 1.

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Weirdest high 5.
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Haritmoto was shorter than Kizukuri not just long ago.
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