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2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships, Semi Final China 3-2 Japan, Harimoto won Fan Zhendong Wang Chuqin
When the Japanese team plays, especially the new generation, they are very strong at the second ball. They approach the table quickly and have great damage. If a new player meets them for the first time, they will certainly be psychologically disturbed and scared. This is like a tiger rushing at you, but you unconsciously avoid it. But when you really get to know them, you will see that most of this new generation are paper tigers, you can look at the way Shunsuke Togami played in his matches. But paper tigers are not scary, what's scary is that sometimes paper tigers turn into real tigers.
This match, the real tiger was Tomokazu Harimoto.
So how to distinguish between paper tigers and real tigers? That depends on the technical's depth of the player, A bit abstract but it is not difficult to understand. When comparing the characteristics of Shunsuke Togami and Tomokazu Harimoto, what they have in common is that they start fast, like to hit hard, and their contact points are quite forward. This is the reason why two players (Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong) do not dominate in the middle and long distances. You move away and want to use force but your opponent keeps sticking close to the table, he (Harimoto) takes a good position and hits you at every corners, you slow down, try to switch and push away from the table. jerk, but the opponent doesn't give you a chance to switch and continues to attack so there are only two outcomes: you lost or he lost.
Tomokazu Harimoto had the "first three ball" very well, leaving the Chinese team unable to do anything. His parents are Chinese, they have a deep understanding of this. So, after these first three balls, the Chinese team only has a 60-40 chance of scoring against him at most, but usually it's 50-50. You don't have much of a tactical advantage against Harimoto, like Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong, their previous victories against Harimoto were rarely directly resolved in the first three balls. Basically, they have to be resilient and have to play very well to win.
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When the Japanese team plays, especially the new generation, they are very strong at the second ball. They approach the table quickly and have great damage. If a new player meets them for the first time, they will certainly be psychologically disturbed and scared. This is like a tiger rushing at you, but you unconsciously avoid it. But when you really get to know them, you will see that most of this new generation are paper tigers, you can look at the way Shunsuke Togami played in his matches. But paper tigers are not scary, what's scary is that sometimes paper tigers turn into real tigers.
This match, the real tiger was Tomokazu Harimoto.
So how to distinguish between paper tigers and real tigers? That depends on the technical's depth of the player, A bit abstract but it is not difficult to understand. When comparing the characteristics of Shunsuke Togami and Tomokazu Harimoto, what they have in common is that they start fast, like to hit hard, and their contact points are quite forward. This is the reason why two players (Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong) do not dominate in the middle and long distances. You move away and want to use force but your opponent keeps sticking close to the table, he (Harimoto) takes a good position and hits you at every corners, you slow down, try to switch and push away from the table. jerk, but the opponent doesn't give you a chance to switch and continues to attack so there are only two outcomes: you lost or he lost.
Tomokazu Harimoto had the "first three ball" very well, leaving the Chinese team unable to do anything. His parents are Chinese, they have a deep understanding of this. So, after these first three balls, the Chinese team only has a 60-40 chance of scoring against him at most, but usually it's 50-50. You don't have much of a tactical advantage against Harimoto, like Xu Xin, Wang Chuqin and Fan Zhendong, their previous victories against Harimoto were rarely directly resolved in the first three balls. Basically, they have to be resilient and have to play very well to win.
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