2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals

[Vlad Celler]

Retire, Ito, Ishikawa, Hirano, and Hayata.

 

[quanghuysk]

Such an amazing performance. They smiled even when facing 2 match points. Send 2 adorable girls to OP, please JNT.

 

[Vlad Celler]

And I, an old idiot, after 0: 2 did not watch online .....

 

[zeio]

And I, an old idiot, after 0: 2 did not watch online .....

You didn't stay with them until the very end? You're the worst...

 

[zeio]

First-ever successful challenge. History made by Boll!

 

[Janard]

Maybe JNT is now regretting opening up two singles slots for Olympics haha. It seems the trio of Ito, Nagasaki & Kihara might be the real deal.

 

[driversbeat]

First-ever successful challenge. History made by Boll!

so height is measured from palm to highest point, not highest point to contact. Sato beware.

 

[Vlad Celler]

You didn't stay with them until the very end? You're the worst...

Oh,yes !!!

 

[zeio]

The ML fans/noobs on Tieba citing the current service rule was put in place in 2018 against China. ROFL!!!

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/6390592456

 

[Vlad Celler]

Maybe JNT is now regretting opening up two singles slots for Olympics haha. It seems the trio of Ito, Nagasaki & Kihara might be the real deal.

Oh, JNT will not take risks, my opinion ....

 

[SFF_lib]

All blue sponge rubbers . . .

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Ito wins two singles Miyus win doubles. That should be the team for Gold

 

[driversbeat]

So demoralising for Sato. Must be tough being a defender and have your teammates figure out all your defending patterns

 

[zeio]

 

[Janard]

LSW and CM both deliberating if they wanna risk their Olympics chances by taking on Ito lol. Although CM has like almost 10 nets favouring her??

 

[NextLevel]

I don't like this "ball behind the head" rule for multiple reasons. First, as Ma Long said to the umpire, your head is a momentarily obstruction that doesn't even remotely hide the contact point. Second, unlike the free hand, you can't freely move your head, it generaly just stays where the body position dictates it to be. And the body position on serves is 100% trained into your physical memory. To me, the umpire could call fault on almost all of the serves from either Ma Long and Jeoung Youngsik and the video replay would show that they technically are faults. Most of the players hide the ball with their head. Third, the replay doesn't show you the line of sight of the receiving player which kinda matters a lot. He might be able to see half the ball, camera would see none of it - fault.

The rule has been around for years and yet it isn't enforced when people like Yoshimura and Ito abuse it. Ma Long has been abusing it for years but I guess we all ignore it because we like him. Compare it to how Jeoung serves and you see a clear difference.

 

[zeio]

So demoralising for Sato. Must be tough being a defender and have your teammates figure out all your defending patterns

The Japanese youngsters in general are so much better at playing defenders than their Chinese counterparts now.

They really learned their lesson from Rio 2016.

 

[Vlad Celler]

Congratulations to Mima Ito ...
Third place in the ITTF ranking for January is guaranteed .....

 

[Janard]

Lol LSW ran out of gas towards the end. I guess LSW vs Ito continues to elude us.

 

[zeio]

LSW and CM both deliberating if they wanna risk their Olympics chances by taking on Ito lol. Although CM has like almost 10 nets favouring her??

CM: Queen of Opens! Don't you dare take that away from me!!