Once again, CNT largely defeated the JNT. I am sad to see that the public showed little enthusiasm to support their players. Chinese fans were making more noise. I was about the only one to shout for the JNT players and I’m not even Japanese...
Once again, CNT largely defeated the JNT. I am sad to see that the public showed little enthusiasm to support their players. Chinese fans were making more noise. I was about the only one to shout for the JNT players and I’m not even Japanese...
Only Harimoto had a little chance against FZD. He’s got the shots but he’s not consistent enough. He needs near perfection and/or luck to win. After he lost the 4th it was clearly game over.
Against FZD his serves were quite effective but his BH was not effective enough
I also enjoyed seeing people in the seats again after the Qatar Open. Every year I cringe seeing the "crowd" there. Ugh.At least there is some audience in Japan, if I compare this to the empty World Tour Finale in Korea...
yes I think it is about culture, we have in Poland one club where they are truly loud:The Japanese crowd is very reserved when it comes to that. I miss those bam bams at the WTTC 2014.
Table Tennis Kingdom picked it up today. They also speculate it is the work of Liu Yanjun.That's new. Can't find anything. Could it be Liu Yanjun of Austria? He happens to be the coach of the T League team Kinoshita she is on. She mentioned him in a recent Butterfly interview.
@zeio
funny as usual for Ishikawa
I feel for her. She lost 1-11 in the 1st game. She wasn't even playing bad. Its just CM was stronger and winning all the rallies. Add a few cheap points due to mistakes and thats quick.
Thanks to some vocal support (including mine she found some energy to put a decent showing, even it was clear she was playing like she already lost, despite some tchoooo from her side.
My friend who came with me said that the problem with Kasumi is that she is not creative at all. She is just repeating patterns from training, and she's too predictable. And because the Chinese are more consistent, then there can't be any surprise about the result as well.
in some sense, Hirano is doing the same now as Kasumi.
The only little innovation I've seen today, is the strawberry receive that she borrowed from ITO, and which had some success today. Else its more of the same. And she's not taking enough risks with her 3rd ball. Even when she wins rallies its too much effort. Often its after being passive for many shots and finally she finds an opening. OTOH, CM is often able to win rallies with 1 or 2 attacks only. in the game that she won, she changed things a little bit but CM quickly reacted.
"Now I feel sad. I wanted to go home early in the game. This is the first time I've felt this. I couldn't help it."「今は悲しい気持ちです。試合中に早く帰りたいと思った。こういうのは初めて。本当にどうしようもなかった」
「はじめのうちは向こうが慣れていなくて、いい勝負ができたりしたが、今は僕のサーブ、レシーブが効かない。やりやすそうにプレーしている」
「通用した部分はないです」
Who said that?https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2019/04/06/kiji/20190406s00026000376000c.html
"Now I feel sad. I wanted to go home early in the game. This is the first time I've felt this. I couldn't help it."
"He wasn't used to that at first, so I was able to play a good game, but now my serve and receive don't work."
"Nothing worked on him."