ITTF WTTC Finals Doha 2025, 5/17-25

[baotran]

Good comparison. Hugo is the younger aggressive Fan with big shots from both forehand and backhand minus some refinement.
The current Hugo fears no one, only control master Ma Long may be able to make him uncomfortable. Not sure did Hugo ever beat Ma Long?

Hugo has won 2 ... sets against Ma Long in 6 matches. Not a great achievement tho.

 

[rpb23]

Which is disgusting. Badminton takes longer and I have yet seen them taking toilet break. Either you pee your pants or you lose lol

Not defending this practice, but the urge of peeing is not a uncommon biological reaction under the stress for some people (including athletes)

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Mima and CIC playing with old rules.... G2 21-19 for Mima !

 

[TampaBayTableTennis]

Moregard is in the matrix lately

 

[Peter93]

You sometimes forget how good Mima is when she isn't blasting balls a meter over the table.

3-0 to Mima now. This is some of the most controlled play I've seen from her.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Assuming SYS beats SYB, it's an all China all Japan WS QF and exactly according to seeding.

 

[TampaBayTableTennis]

ahhhhhhhhhhh

 

[zeio]

MS R16
T1 JWJ (12) 3-4 Moregard (7) (-8, -7, 7, -9, 3, 7, -12)
G7 62, 67, 77, 78, 88, 89, 109, 1010, 1110, 1111, 1211, 1214

 

[Robin0910]

That was a nailbiting match between JWJ and Truls. JWJ almost came back but couldn’t close the match in the end

 

[zeio]

Which is disgusting. Badminton takes longer and I have yet seen them taking toilet break. Either you pee your pants or you lose lol

Well, it happened in the final of the Sudirman Cup 2025.

 

[zeio]

MS R16
T2 Franziska (8) 3-4 LYJ (13) (8, -10, -10, 7, -9, 7, -4)
G2 93, 96, 106, 109 TO for Franziska, 1012
G3 109, 1012
G4 67 injury TO for LYJ, 117
G5 97, 911
G6 61, 62, 102, 107, 117
G7 10, 11, 21, 210, 410 LYJ served off the table, 411

Franziska 0W9L LYJ now.
Franziska 0W9L Harimoto
Despite that, Franziska (last German standing) for LA28!!!

 

[TampaBayTableTennis]

couldnt have been any closer, so cool

 

[KiwiPong]

LYJ's knee... :<

 

[turbozed]

Mima is still in the great form this year and this might be her cleanest game yet against such a high ranked opponent. 4-0 against CIC is not something I was expecting.

When she's consistently landing those Mima smashes she's really hard to beat. Really noticeable improvement on the BH too as CIC was targetting her there desperately trying to avoid the FH. Mima was giving her those dead pushes and mixing in those flat BH slaps too.

 

[ivangle]

franz doing what dima did to lyj in tokyo 2020. using empty bh serves and getting into the rally

 

[driversbeat]

Hayata is the only female player in recent memory to have beaten two CNT players in two consecutive WTTCs. Most recent record of a player from another association beating CNT in WTTC women's singles is 2009, with KOR doing nearly all of the damage.

2009
R128: Park Y. Sook (KOR) beat Yao Yan 4-3

2005
R16: Gao Jun (USA) beat Cao Zhen 4-1
R32: Moon Hyun Jung (KOR) beat Wang Nan 4-3

1999
R16: Ryu Ji Hye (KOR) beat Yang Ying 3-0

 

[baotran]

Lin Shidong looks unstoppable. Not sure if he will be 2013 Ma Long or 2015 Ma Long when he meets Felix or Hugo.

 

[NextLevel]

Hayata is the only female player in recent memory to have beaten two CNT players in two consecutive WTTCs. Most recent record of a player from another association beating CNT in WTTC women's singles is 2009, with KOR doing nearly all of the damage.

2009
R128: Park Y. Sook (KOR) beat Yao Yan 4-3

2005
R16: Gao Jun (USA) beat Cao Zhen 4-1
R32: Moon Hyun Jung (KOR) beat Wang Nan 4-3

1999
R16: Ryu Ji Hye (KOR) beat Yang Ying 3-0

This is not what they experts say. She beat easy to beat Chinese players not the very best. So she is just doing the minimum. Trust the experts.

 

[Catenaccio]

Congrats to LYJ making the QF!

 

[ivangle]

franz received badly in the last set, missing 3 serves early. he couldnt deal with lyj’s long serves