Thread about Japanese Players

[Catenaccio]

Miku Matsushima also won the U19 event at the WTT Youth Contender Vientiane. Cocona Muramatsu reached the final.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Miu Hirano faced her former team earlier today. She and her doubles partner won their doubles match. However, Miu lost to Ryu Hanna of South Korea 3-0 (6,9,9) in her singles match.

 

[jonol]

I wonder what the main bottleneck is for Miu Hirano. To me she always seems like she is close to a breakthrough and getting back to being a top10 player, but she never quite gets there.

One of my favourite players to watch, would love to see her make a few deeper runs in WTT events.

 

[zeio]

I wonder what the main bottleneck is for Miu Hirano. To me she always seems like she is close to a breakthrough and getting back to being a top10 player, but she never quite gets there.

One of my favourite players to watch, would love to see her make a few deeper runs in WTT events.

Hirano has been going it alone without a coach since 9/2024. It was also reported that Kinoshita Abyell was in financial trouble. With Hirano being on the reserve team, that means she has to play international tournaments at her own expense, and her decision to transfer to Kyushu Carina implies that she was not the top priority of Abyell, not unlike the case for Kihara who transferred to Top Nagoya.