ITTF-ATTU Asian Championships Tashkent 2026, 10/18-25

[kindof99]

The schedule for this ATTC was really crazy packed. Did anyone even count how many games Miwa played for these several days? At least four matches in the final day.

 

[zeio]

If LTY just kept chopping for the last several points with good placement, the result might be different. I thought Harimoto would blow it off after leading 7:2.

It came down to the gap in experience.

Harimoto went over his 3-4 loss to FZD at Paris 2024 in Part 3 of the Butterfly interview and said he would've fallen into the trap if he stepped around when asked what if he took more risks and how FZD's push broke his spirit at 7:7 of G7 as he didn't know what to do even though he knew a push was coming up next.

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...-my-bh-to-become-peripheral.38138/post-544601

 

[zeio]

Harimoto's mom was a former china national team chopper. It surprised me that Harimoto was so bad against a chopper. Mom needs to give more lessons.

And his dad used to play penhold...

 

[kindof99]

And his dad used to play penhold...

But not RPB

 

[kindof99]

HT Vs LTY

 

[Metaxa]

Once the blocking came back and Tianyang stopped scoring as many free points, it was a fair match. Harimoto hugging and piggybacking on his coach, the one that some say should retire. Thats clearly a pipe dream with that relationship.

LTY failed to carry their forehand parallel shots (which required a run-up) through to HT’s forehand. But this may well have been down to HT’s merit, as they played better (lower and faster after the collision) push-drops, because those were a sight to be desired in the first two sets.

 

[kindof99]

LTY failed to carry their forehand parallel shots (which required a run-up) through to HT’s forehand. But this may well have been down to HT’s merit, as they played better (lower and faster after the collision) push-drops, because those were a sight to be desired in the first two sets.

HT pushed further more to the backhand side of LTY after game 2. It was not easy for HT to pivot for forehand. Harimoto played much wider placement and moves away from the table a little bit to block/quick loop LTY's forehand loop, which contributed to his win.