ITTF World Youth Championships 2025, Cluj Napoca, 11/23-30

[NextLevel]

Ishida better win... China can still come back for sure....

 

[JackJohnson]

Ishoda better win... China can still come back for sure....

Yea after Asian Champs the U15 Japan womens team better not bottle it like the Japan mens team.

 

[NextLevel]

Yea after Asian Champs the U15 Japan womens team better not bottle it like the Japan mens team.

We tend to think of comebacks as the team in the lead "bottling it", but not sure I agree in many cases... it would depend on if the changes that caused the "bottling" were the result of the team in the lead doing something different or wrong... this is rarely my experience watching high level TT...

 

[mikeytt]

lol these italian kids are getting really fired up, understandably so

 

[NextLevel]

Poor Zhao - those service points at 2-2, 7-7... and another at 2-2, 8-10.. someone's forehand will go into the lab lol...

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Japan has done it!!!!!! U15 GT 3-0 over China!

 

[NextLevel]

lol these italian kids are getting really fired up, understandably so

That's their ace... they are trying to get him over the line though they are still in good hands till the end.

 

[NextLevel]

Some of the attacks Yu is taking over the table with his forehand look really amazing...

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

OMG! What are we witnessing here?! China goes down in U19 BT, U15 BT, and U15 GT.

 

[CyNyC]

ITA 2:0 CHN
Rollercoaster match!

ITA 3:1 CHN
No words left.... Japan and China....

 

[mikeytt]

Wow

 

[NextLevel]

And he gets baited into an attack with a short serve to the forehand and misses that... congrats to Italy!

 

[NextLevel]

OMG! What are we witnessing here?! China goes down in U19 BT, U15 BT, and U15 GT.

We need TT funding... I am rooting for U19 GT....

 

[JackJohnson]

Handshake at the end didn’t look good from the Italian player that was just playing right now reminded me of Levenko and Pistej. Look more like a slap to the China player hand.

 

[piligrim]

 

[NextLevel]

Handshake at the end didn’t look good from the Italian player that was just playing right now reminded me of Levenko and Pistej. Look more like a slap to the China player hand.

It's the post-Covid era, everyone does it differently, we often read too much meaning into things that happen after a match is over.

 

[piligrim]

 

[NextLevel]

I don't think I remember a player being as loud as Ankur is in this match when he wins points - worse than classic Harimoto because it is clearly in a team environment and amplified by teammates and directed at the opposition lol...

 

[NextLevel]

And now he has gone Nadal... and lost 5 straight points after rolling up his short sleeves to his shoulders....

 

[NextLevel]

Again 10-7 to 10-12. Something is in Ankur's karma today...