China Smash 2026, Beijing, 10/1-11

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Actually, it can be exciting if it goes to expedite which I suspect it will.
Probably it will. I think Hitomi is the best choper in the world now, but nobody knows what the young chinese can do.
 
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QF:
Truls - in - GS winner
Sora - in - GS winner
Felix - in - GS winner
LYJ - in - elite player
HC - in - elite player
JWJ - in - quasi-elite player
ZQH - in - CNT player
Feng - upcoming Taiwanese player

Harimoto - the biggest enemy of the CNT out.

@zeio: you call all go talk to ML, HS and HYC.
China Smash: I am reality. Experts got nothing on reality.
 
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It's been forecast at the end of last year.

From her recent interview on Aichi-Nagoya 2026, it's clear she has trouble handling WS and WD together.
It's really interesting that you can actually claim a vague reference to Hayata's health is a forecast and a simultaneous reference to Hirano's sturdy body despite her issues doesn't temper that. With your expert opinions on Hayata's wrist injury completely falling apart to reality, you really should just leave her health alone and let it be. Moreoever, it's not like Hayata lost to a scrub or lost badly, for all @Takkyu_wa_inochi 's profanity, the match was good and close, I often ascribe such language to betting losses, but maybe I am overthinking it. Hayata might be injured but all players have something or another, and again, her opponent played a good match.
 
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It's really interesting that you can actually claim a vague reference to Hayata's health is a forecast and a simultaneous reference to Hirano's sturdy body despite her issues doesn't temper that. With your expert opinions on Hayata's wrist injury completely falling apart to reality, you really should just leave her health alone and let it be. Moreoever, it's not like Hayata lost to a scrub or lost badly, for all @Takkyu_wa_inochi 's profanity, the match was good and close, I often ascribe such language to betting losses, but maybe I am overthinking it. Hayata might be injured but all players have something or another, and again, her opponent played a good match.
 

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It's been forecast at the end of last year.

From her latest interview at CHN GS 2026, it's clear she has trouble handling WS and WD together.
The scheduling was not so great for Hina. There was only 1hr20min between the end of a tough match w/ SYB and the doubles match so of course she's going to be tired. Nevertheless, she and Miwa came through in the end.

She was the Champion in both WS and WD at both SC Sao Jose dos Campos 2026 (WD w/ Akae) and SC Ljubljana 2026 (WD w/ Miwa).
 
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Everyone kind of knows that JWJ likes to play FH from BH's side, but with his speed, it's hard to take advantage of that.
His backhand is also better now, especially on serve return, so it makes it much harder to get him.
 
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The scheduling was not so great for Hina. There was only 1hr20min between the end of a tough match w/ SYB and the doubles match so of course she's going to be tired. Nevertheless, she and Miwa came through in the end.

She was the Champion in both WS and WD at both SC Sao Jose dos Campos 2026 (WD w/ Akae) and SC Ljubljana 2026 (WD w/ Miwa).
In faxt until i remebered that Shin was in XD and not WD, i thought Hayata got bad treatment and Shin favorable treatment. Harimoto is dedinitely putting in work playing 3 events and getting to the semifinals.in 2 (likely 3 ) of them. The beauty of being young...
 
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Scheduled Matches:
All times are local time.
Live streaming: https://www.youtube.com/wttglobal

Fri, 9th Oct 2026
11:00 T1 WD SF HARIMOTO(JPN)/HAYATA(JPN) - WANG(CHN)/JIANG(CHN)
11:00 T2 WD SF CHEN(CHN)/LI(CHN) - WANG(CHN)/KUAI(CHN)
11:45 T1 MD SF LEBRUN(FRA)/LEBRUN(FRA) - WEN(CHN)/YUAN(CHN)
11:45 T2 MD SF LIM(KOR)/OH(KOR) - THAKKAR(IND)/SHAH(IND)
12:30 T1 MS QF FENG Yi-Hsin(TPE) - Sora MATSUSHIMA(JPN)
12:30 T2 WS QF CHEN Xingtong(CHN) - Honoka HASHIMOTO(JPN)
13:15 T1 WS QF Miwa HARIMOTO(JPN) - WANG Yidi(CHN)
18:00 T1 WS QF WANG Manyu(CHN) - SHIN Yubin(KOR)
18:45 T1 MS QF JANG Woojin(KOR) - ZHOU Qihao(CHN)
19:30 T1 WS QF Hitomi SATO(JPN) - ZHU Sibing(CHN)
20:15 T1 XD Final LIM(KOR)/SHIN(KOR) - LIN(TPE)/CHENG(TPE)
 
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