Harimoto loses to balding Grandpa

[TensorBackhand]

Just kidding, he's not really grandpa, but the video quality really makes it seem like he is a grandpa.

Anyways, apparently he's ranked 500 on ITTF in 2022, so Harimoto really shouldn't be losing to him. Harimoto's career just seems to be wasting away. I wish he would change something, his equipment, his strategy, his stroke, at least give it an attempt.

 

[karupinkun]

props to Afshin Noroozi. He almost made like zero easy errors and gave Harimoto not much speed to play with. I always felt that Harimoto has his best games against players with high speed, which he can use too. Other then that Harimoto had massiv troubles with receiving the serves.​

 

[Doum]

I will feel less ashamed when i loose to grandpas at my club.

 

[BaRanchik]

If he is truly injured, then what exactly did you expect?
Do you think FZD would have won against whatever pro from the top 500 with a wrist injury?
In fact, just a few months ago, an in-shape, #1, non-injured FZD lost to #193 Cho Dae-seong.
Does that mean FZD is wasting his career and should change his game? This is just funny.

Given that his competition is FZD and WCQ in their prime, as well as ML who is still a force to be reckoned with, Harimoto holding the #4 spot is very impressive. People just like giving him shit because his style is not as entertaining as the Chinese style, and he Chos every point.

 

[TensorBackhand]

If he is truly injured, then what exactly did you expect?
Do you think FZD would have won against whatever pro from the top 500 with a wrist injury?
In fact, just a few months ago, an in-shape, #1, non-injured FZD lost to #193 Cho Dae-seong.
Does that mean FZD is wasting his career and should change his game? This is just funny.

Given that his competition is FZD and WCQ in their prime, as well as ML who is still a force to be reckoned with, Harimoto holding the #4 spot is very impressive. People just like giving him shit because his style is not as entertaining as the Chinese style, and he Chos every point.

He is still a very good player, and he has a high ranking. So if you're goal is to be a top 10 player, then Harimoto is doing just fine and his career is not wasting away.

If his goal is to win titles, especially the big titles like World Championships, then he seems to have a problem breaking through. In this regard, he seems to have stalled a bit or seems to be wasting away. Moreover, this match doesn't lend much hope that he is about to breakthrough. His style is a bit predictable and basic at this point, and he seem to lack the X-factor.

Maybe his injury really was difficult today, but even just ignoring today's match. He seems to have stalled over the past several years.

 

[blahness]

Harimoto looked like he didn't want to be there at all. Wondering what sort of wrist injury he had

 

[Haraold]

looks like in TT the players don´t have any leverage against the Structures,organisations.
I wonder how many young aspiring athletes Health have been crushed becausee of this...long way to go till Player Empowerment Era.
IF ever in TT,lbh its one of the most organisational ,structural and federational dominated Sport in all of em

 

[igorponger]

Yeah, Harimota has fetched money a lot for the black dealers in gambling business. It is some heyday with Hong Kong betting bosses. .

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Harimoto looked like he didn't want to be there at all. Wondering what sort of wrist injury he had

His coaches did tell him : "no fap !"
WTF has he been doing

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

He is still a very good player, and he has a high ranking. So if you're goal is to be a top 10 player, then Harimoto is doing just fine and his career is not wasting away.

If his goal is to win titles, especially the big titles like World Championships, then he seems to have a problem breaking through. In this regard, he seems to have stalled a bit or seems to be wasting away. Moreover, this match doesn't lend much hope that he is about to breakthrough. His style is a bit predictable and basic at this point, and he seem to lack the X-factor.

Maybe his injury really was difficult today, but even just ignoring today's match. He seems to have stalled over the past several years.

Care to name the last world champion who was not on the CNT and the year it happened? Has anyone broken through who is not on CNT for the past 20 years?

 

[Gozo Aruna]

Just kidding, he's not really grandpa, but the video quality really makes it seem like he is a grandpa.

Anyways, apparently he's ranked 500 on ITTF in 2022, so Harimoto really shouldn't be losing to him. Harimoto's career just seems to be wasting away. I wish he would change something, his equipment, his strategy, his stroke, at least give it an attempt.

Speaking of grandpa, I wish to digress a little.

I remember a pro player from Egypt ( Ahmed Saleh ) He looks like your typical middle aged dad-bod dude. I mean, for those uninitiated, he looks like a kebab seller in Giza selling hot kebabs to tourist. My point is, don't underestimates grampas in table tennis. Looks can be deceiving. Under those dad-bod, are massive over-powered killer forehands.

 

[blahness]

Speaking of grandpa, I wish to digress a little.

I remember a pro player from Egypt ( Ahmed Saleh ) He looks like your typical middle aged dad-bod dude. I mean, for those uninitiated, he looks like a kebab seller in Giza selling hot kebabs to tourist. My point is, don't underestimates grampas in table tennis. Looks can be deceiving. Under those dad-bod, are massive over-powered killer forehands.

tbh TT is based off weight transfer and heavy ppl have a lot of weight to work with!

 

[TensorBackhand]

Care to name the last world champion who was not on the CNT and the year it happened? Has anyone broken through who is not on CNT for the past 20 years?

Well, the Japanese media was calling Harimoto a 100 year talent since he was 14. The best talent in 100 years. So he hasnt lived up to the high expectations or his early career trajectory. Nobody else in the past 20 years has his talent, so we pin the hopes on him.

 

[kingkimchi]

Yeah, Harimota has fetched money a lot for the black dealers in gambling business. It is some heyday with Hong Kong betting bosses. .

don't macau ppl gamble more than us XD. They have world class casinos

 

[Tony Funk My Racket]

Just kidding, he's not really grandpa, but the video quality really makes it seem like he is a grandpa.

Anyways, apparently he's ranked 500 on ITTF in 2022, so Harimoto really shouldn't be losing to him. Harimoto's career just seems to be wasting away. I wish he would change something, his equipment, his strategy, his stroke, at least give it an attempt.

The guy is 38 years old. When you said Grandpa I expected an 80 yr old player. You had me scared for a second because I'm in my 40s lol.

 

[TensorBackhand]

The guy is 38 years old. When you said Grandpa I expected an 80 yr old player. You had me scared for a second because I'm in my 40s lol.

But when you just saw the video, how old did you think he was?

 

[Gozo Aruna]

Yuta Tanaka defeated WCQ in R64 and India's Sharath Achatah in R32. He will face Korea's Lim JH in R16. Wow! Yuta-kun, way to go!

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Between OP (the person) and OP (the content)
I would say HT is doing way better than TB in terms was wasting/not wasting time

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

CHUANG Chih-Yuan is also losing Grandpa... at least in G1... 6-11 !!!
and i don't know whether he has a hand injury or not

 

[blahness]

CHUANG Chih-Yuan is also losing Grandpa... at least in G1... 6-11 !!!
and i don't know whether he has a hand injury or not

The funny thing is that Chuang is actually older than this "grandpa" lol