2025 All Japan (Emperor's/Empress's Cup) 1/21-1/26

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I suppose there is no easy schedule to find with the players' names? The official schedule only has the numbers so you need to cross check.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

I suppose there is no easy schedule to find with the players' names? The official schedule only has the numbers so you need to cross check.

Not sure which page you're looking at, but the official page has a match list where you can filter by date, event, and table:

試合一覧

公益財団法人 日本卓球協会のウェブサイトです。

jtta.or.jp

 

[turbozed]

this was her R1 match.

here is the end of G5
yep Miku is almost crying... i saw more footage on TV, Miku did some really superplay with her BH, some incredible trajectories. almost parallel to the net...

her opponent was a high school student

she also won her R2 match

Watching Miku play is wild. She's the most emotional player I've seen on the table which is obviously such a crazy contrast with Sora who is completely stone-faced.

Just saw another match of hers where she was down 2-1 in games and 7-1 looked completely inconsolable. Then goes on to win the game and then the next game like 11-4.

 

[turbozed]

Japanese sometimes can’t even read names. Because there are different ways to pronounce kanjis. In those cases They need the kanas.

On top of that you also got Japanese kira-kira names which adds another layer of weirdness.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Watching Miku play is wild. She's the most emotional player I've seen on the table which is obviously such a crazy contrast with Sora who is completely stone-faced.

Just saw another match of hers where she was down 2-1 in games and 7-1 looked completely inconsolable. Then goes on to win the game and then the next game like 11-4.

lot of kids are like that. Last month i played a girl who was in elementary school, maybe younger than Miku. I made her cry... but i almost lost ! she started crying in G4, i got match point and she won ! she cried again in G5 but she couldn't complete the come back ! she was very good for her age, especially her serves and BH. Her head was barely above the table, how is it possible !!!!

 

[quanghuysk]

wth, MJ is playing this tournament?

Hm, maybe not, the hall looks different and MJ now already gained some weight other than looks fit in the video

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

some R3 results
Miku MATSUSHIMA lost to a 15yo MAKINO 1-3 (she's also playing in TLeague)
Haruna OJIO goes through, but Yuna OJIO is out of the tournament

JIN Takuya ousts Yuto KIZUKURI

other "famous" qualified players include Kazuhiro YOSHIMURA, Ryuzaki TONIN, Kohei SAMBEI

in R4 tomorrow, the 32 top seeds appear and will play against those who survived R1 R2 and R3

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

some R3 results
Miku MATSUSHIMA lost to a 15yo MAKINO 1-3 (she's also playing in TLeague)
Haruna OJIO goes through, but Yuna OJIO is out of the tournament

JIN Takuya ousts Yuto KIZUKURI

other "famous" qualified players include Kazuhiro YOSHIMURA, Ryuzaki TONIN, Kohei SAMBEI

in R4 tomorrow, the 32 top seeds appear and will play against those who survived R1 R2 and R3

Kotomi Omoda (also translated as Aimi Menda) of MLTT makes it to R64 as well. Rin Mende, top ranked junior girl after Miwa, also in. In her last T-League match, she just barely lost 11-9 in the 5th to Hitomi Sato.

 

[FIXPOINT]

All Japan Table Tennis Championships 2025 WS R64

Japanese version​

 

[FIXPOINT]

All Japan Table Tennis Championships 2025 MS R64

Japanese version​

 

[turbozed]

some R3 results
Miku MATSUSHIMA lost to a 15yo MAKINO 1-3 (she's also playing in TLeague)
Haruna OJIO goes through, but Yuna OJIO is out of the tournament

JIN Takuya ousts Yuto KIZUKURI

other "famous" qualified players include Kazuhiro YOSHIMURA, Ryuzaki TONIN, Kohei SAMBEI

in R4 tomorrow, the 32 top seeds appear and will play against those who survived R1 R2 and R3

Surprised but glad Haruna came back to win that. She was down 2 games to 1 at the time I had to run out for an appointment.

That said, I was hoping she'd show some more improvement over the past year or two. Her FH attacks that she spends so much effort setting up she ends up missing an alarming amount of the time. She's also a little less bouncy and mobile than I remember her being.

She's still young but the trajectory is not looking too promising. Doesn't seem like there's a next generation of female choppers to replace Sato/Hashimoto. Maybe it was too much to ask for.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Surprised but glad Haruna came back to win that. She was down 2 games to 1 at the time I had to run out for an appointment.

That said, I was hoping she'd show some more improvement over the past year or two. Her FH attacks that she spends so much effort setting up she ends up missing an alarming amount of the time. She's also a little less bouncy and mobile than I remember her being.

She's still young but the trajectory is not looking too promising. Doesn't seem like there's a next generation of female choppers to replace Sato/Hashimoto. Maybe it was too much to ask for.

Final score for Haruna Ojio vs. Takamori was 3-1 win for Haruna so she was up 2-1 in that match. She has a decent draw for getting to R16. She will need to beat Asuka Sasao in R64 first.

 

[FIXPOINT]

On top of that you also got Japanese kira-kira names which adds another layer of weirdness.

Under the current Japanese family registration law, only the written characters of a name are recorded, while the pronunciation (in hiragana, katakana, or romaji) is not registered. The pronunciation is left largely to the discretion of the individual or their parents, allowing for considerable freedom in choosing how a name is read, making it difficult for others to determine the correct pronunciation. For example, the second most common name for boys registered in 2023 was "陽翔," which reportedly had ten different pronunciations: Haruto, Hinata, Akito, Hibito, Hyuga, Hinato, Hiroto, Haruhi, Hikaru, and Yamato. With my limited knowledge of literary naming conventions, I couldn’t come up with even one of these pronunciations on my own. This situation is quite inconvenient in the digital age, so a law is set to be amended in May this year, requiring the pronunciation to be recorded along with the name at the time of registration. Incidentally, at least four plausible pronunciations immediately come to mind for the surname "面田" (Omoda, Menda, Omota, and Menta). However, if an entirely unexpected pronunciation is used, I’m at a complete loss.

 

[zeio]

Hayata/2401 against a chopper and Ito/2420 struggled more than expected, dropping 1 and 2 games, respectively. Aso/2419 4-3 Sugasawa. Akae/2417 dropped a game.

Hirano/2424 got through without much resistance. Similarly for Kihara/2408 and Nagasaki/2409, despite the latter dropping 1 game. Harimoto/2432 through as well.

Sato/2429 through in straight games as well. Yokoi/2416 dropped a game against Izumo. Same for Odo/2412 against Miyawaki (?). Hashimoto/2421 through in straight games after some resistance.

Ando/2418 4-0 Makino, the one who eliminated Matsushima in JGS.

Aoki/2414 2-3 I Ayano right now, G5 21-23. 3-3, G6 11-7. 3-4, G7 5-11.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

So far so good in terms on Hayata's recovery. She didn't appear to show any signs of significant pain. She's also sporting Nittaku sportswear with her own design. Second wave of matches are starting now.

 

[tzifos]

Both girls, Hashimoto and Sato progress to the next round with 4-0 victories! Tomorrow the games:

5th round | January 24, 2025 | 13:20 | Match ID: 2511 | Court 12
Honoka Hashimoto [Miki House (Osaka)]
Seira Ushijima [Sanritsu (Tokyo)]

5th round | January 24, 2025 | 1:20 p.m. | Match ID: 2515 | Court 17
Hitomi Sato [Miki House (Osaka)]
Takako Nagao [Sanritsu (Tokyo)]

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Asuka Sasao takes out Haruna Ojio.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Rin Mende also through to the next round. She's going to be really good in the future. Very smooth technique. Effective serves. Just need strength training.

 

[mikeytt]

togami took his Bundesliga coach to be with him for this event

 

[fore.n.back]

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togami took his Bundesliga coach to be with him for this event

Bit weird since they don't seem to communicate too well back in club matches, but well he can't hire coach Mizuno forever