ITO couldn't resist pouring some tears during the post match interview. I can understand her, she's trained all her life for this match and she lost a very brutal 0-4, SYS put her so much pressure she never managed to play her best and enter one of her transes where she starts smiling and play god-level.
Looking at ITO's facial expression during the warm-up, i was very hopeful it was her day, but she lost G1 11-3 missing nearly everything. but at least it looked she was the one losing, not SYS winning. in G2 she got a very good start, with an extra bit of luck, up 7-1, and one miss, and another one , plus winners from SYS. and she's forced to the time out at 9-7.
I don't know if its a good idea to show your opponent you're that nervous so early in the game, even if snatching G2 was vital to survive. I think the TO further boosted SYS confidence, especially she managed to turn a miracle FH save into a winner, to come back 9-8 , and then played formidable points to get G2.
From there, even there were some fulgurance from ITO, she wasn't consistent and it was SYS totally in control.
Like all JP fans I'm very disappointed, not only at the fact that Mima lost, but that she wasn't even able to challenge her opponent seriously.
She'll have no problem getting the bronze, but she'll not be happy about it, that was the minimum. I don't even know if YU Mengyu can play tonight because she injured herself in G4 against CHEN Meng. The match was interrupted for 5 minutes. She bravely finished the match, but obviously it was still hurting.