Thinking about Harimoto quarter I think some are looking too far. I think he might be the one proceeding to the semis, but I don't think hes the huge favorte now. There are many playing styles he still has to adapt to way better to play those results nearly as consistent as the chinese players. Last time he met Freitas he lost, against Timo it's 50% (But more depending of Timos performance which is not too stable before this WTTC, like beats Fang Bo and loses to the 100 of the world few weeks ago- bu he's definetly a tournamennt player, getting better game by game). Also I wuldnt underrate Jang Woojin, big thread to every chinese and non Chinese player. If he's on fire I think hes the best Korean player right now, LSS not very stable in the last months. Another good player in this quarter is Daniel Habesohn, pretty impressive how he managed to get from like no4 in the national team to no 1 in that age, played pretty impressivve in the first german league, won against Fang Bo in the Champions League as well, 3rd place European Champs, so I think one of these will take the spot.
In the first quater before LJK meet FZD, he has to win over Lin Yun Ju. The 18 year old is getting better day by day, just won the last challenge plus tournament with good players, beat ovtcharov, so no sparring for LJK, beside the fact that he is known to be not that stable against non chinese like the others, but I think the bigger thread for FZD looking at the statistics. Next to Ovtcharov in the quater we also have Tomislav Pucar European Champion u21 last year. Last pro Tour tournament he beat 2 Chinese players and lost 3:4 9:11 in the 7th to Lin Gaoyuan, his style is pretty good against the chinese players. Koki Niwa is good against any non Chinese and XX maybe, but will be buried by ML or FZD.
In the Lin Gaoyuan quarter Ma Long is definetly the fav to survive, but its a pretty tough draw. I personally hpe that Calderano gets far, but hes too unstable in general unfortunately. I think even Gnanasekaran can give him a tough time in second round. He's like playing semis at major events and when you think hes on fire, he gets busted in the first round against 30+ ranked players (Like the same with Gauzy). I'm looking forward to the clash between Mizutani and Jung young sick, we had that game at the wttc 2015 and it was crazy like 7th game 14:12 to mizu, their playing styles fit very nice to each other.
In the last quarter I think Franziska and XX will make it to the quarters. LSS not very good performance last weeks, Franziska is exploding (and no injury). Matthias Falck and Pitch will be a thread too and maybe Gauzy but as much I likee the game of Simon, hes not dangerous enough I think, his style is outdated against the top 4.
Alll in all World champion will be Michael Maze
Cheers
In the first quater before LJK meet FZD, he has to win over Lin Yun Ju. The 18 year old is getting better day by day, just won the last challenge plus tournament with good players, beat ovtcharov, so no sparring for LJK, beside the fact that he is known to be not that stable against non chinese like the others, but I think the bigger thread for FZD looking at the statistics. Next to Ovtcharov in the quater we also have Tomislav Pucar European Champion u21 last year. Last pro Tour tournament he beat 2 Chinese players and lost 3:4 9:11 in the 7th to Lin Gaoyuan, his style is pretty good against the chinese players. Koki Niwa is good against any non Chinese and XX maybe, but will be buried by ML or FZD.
In the Lin Gaoyuan quarter Ma Long is definetly the fav to survive, but its a pretty tough draw. I personally hpe that Calderano gets far, but hes too unstable in general unfortunately. I think even Gnanasekaran can give him a tough time in second round. He's like playing semis at major events and when you think hes on fire, he gets busted in the first round against 30+ ranked players (Like the same with Gauzy). I'm looking forward to the clash between Mizutani and Jung young sick, we had that game at the wttc 2015 and it was crazy like 7th game 14:12 to mizu, their playing styles fit very nice to each other.
In the last quarter I think Franziska and XX will make it to the quarters. LSS not very good performance last weeks, Franziska is exploding (and no injury). Matthias Falck and Pitch will be a thread too and maybe Gauzy but as much I likee the game of Simon, hes not dangerous enough I think, his style is outdated against the top 4.
Alll in all World champion will be Michael Maze
Cheers
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