He was visibly injured during the match. It helps to get context before arriving at radical conclusions, though I know in this case your conclusion has been arrived at for a few months now so any information will support it regardless.
ok, so he's injured this time. But is he gonna win his matches when he is uninjured? I haven't seen that yet. but there is always next time
So you are the only one who didn't see him beat both Fan Zhendong and Wang Chuqin in the WTTTC last year? Or are you just someone who only watches when he loses? How many players who are not Chinese have ever beaten everyone on the current Chinese national team at some point in their career? Seriously?
He has the ability to pull out the big wins, but he has to string together the wins in a sequence to win an actual title.
Again, which part of being visibly injured (in the 5th game) during the match are you missing? You are going to lose credibility (not that you care as an ERT fan) if you continue to push these arguments without educating yourself on the details. Harimoto was well on his way to winning before getting injured, after the injury timeout, people asked him to stop playing, but he fought to continue but his best wasn't good enough.
Ok, I didn't see the match apart from the score, so I don't know how bad his injury was. Sounds like it affected him detrimentally on this occasion. Maybe he can win a big title next time.
I don't think age means anything. Some people just peak early, some late. Certainly WCQ peaked later than Harimoto, but it looks like WCQ will ultimately be the better and more accomplished player.
His trajectory hasn't looked good "the past few years" even though he lost 4-2 to a (now) 3-time bronze medallist with each game being decided by 2 points or less in the Quarter Finals of the WTTC this year!! In 2021 he went out in the first round. What is the trajectory of that analysis? Do you know how you sound writing these things?
Just a question. Why are you holding Harimoto to such high standards compared to other players?
I hold Harimoto to a high standard because he was the best 14 year old and best 16 year old ever. He was WAY better than Ma Long at 16. So if he kept improving, in theory, he should be destroying ML and the top CNT players by now. But that hasn't happened, because he seem to have peaked already.
I don't really see your point. he lost to LJK. LJK himself has never won the big titles and usually loses to the ML and FZD and WCQ of the world. I don't think Harimoto brags about losing to LJK. At 16, Harimoto was WAY better than LJK at 16 or even 20, and his trajectory was looking up. Harimoto should've far exceeded LJK based on his early talent. But he has stayed flat. Also QF is still a LONG way from winning the title. He would have to win the QF, win the SF against a better opponent, and win the F against even better opponent.
Hurricane is not a guarantee for success, if it was Yu Heyi would be world champion. He's working with coaches alright, wait and see how his 20s pan out before making such declarations...
No it's not a guarantee. In fact, there's a very likely chance he would play worse with H3. He might play better, he might play worse, he might just be the same.
Nah, that's not really true, WCQ has won the cup finals and the WTT champions too. They're practically on the same level of hierarchy of tournaments won. WCQ won the YOG though so there's that. But still equal (Hari has Asian cup, WCQ has Asian games). I think it's gonna be a big rivalry, with Fan and others in the picture of course.
You said the trajectory the past few years has been discouraging, and I pointed out that his results the past two years have shown an upward trajectory despite the recent injuries. You are writing like someone who only believes in hockey stick improvement, real improvement tends to come in waves with periods of going down and periods of going up. I am pointing out that he made the QF in 2023 for the first time since 2017, so if his results were not encouraging, it should have been 2019 and 2021 that you are talking about. Harimoto is proud of his 2023 WTTC QF result, he wants more, but he has to continue to work at it. You seem to think talent is some magic guarantee of something, it never is, and no one knows the magic formula to fully realize talent, all people know are those who do well and they never see the talented who do not.
It is always an equipment problem... according to EJ experts. lol
