Before folks waste more of my time, do note that due to the lack of doubles events, the singles matches are scheduled really tight, likely out of safety concerns.
Previously, the 2 WS SFs are usually scheduled on 1 table at, 10:00 and 11:00, before the final at 15:00. Assuming a 7-gamer takes a little over an hour, that means at worst the winner of the 2nd SF gets a little less than 3 hours of rest time.
This time around, the 2 WS SFs were scheduled on 2 tables at 10:00, before the final at 13:00. The match b/w Ito and Hayata took 1 hr and 4 mins(as reported on the match card), which translates to less than 2 hours of rest time. Ishikawa, OTOH, took just 39 mins to best Kihara, despite a score of 4-2. She had 25 more mins to rest. That's a big difference.
Hayata 67:63 Ito, 1 hr 4 mins
Kihara 47:53 Ishikawa, 39 mins
Ito 64:63 Ishikawa, 57 mins, confirming my previous claim that Ito kept stalling in her previous match(3 points less but 7 mins less here).
All-Japan 2020
Ito 66:64 Hayata, 59 mins
Ishikawa 58:46 Hashimoto, 55 mins
Hayata 53:39 Ishikawa, 40 mins
If someone cared to check out my previous posts, seeded players such as Harimoto and Hayata have mentioned about having to play 3 singles matches in a day(at 10:00, 15:00, 17:20, respectively, as opposed to 2 at 10:00, 15:00 in previous editions) on their opening day as a concern.