United States (US) Smash 2026, Los Angeles, California, USA 26 Jun - 5 Jul 2026

[zeio]

He's a 2025 World Champion Gold medalist in MD. He is the men's singles champion at 2025 WTT Contender Almaty 2025. And he recently beat Yuan Licen, Park Gyuhyeon, Dima Ovtcharov, Qiu Dang, and Hugo Calderano to take the men's singles championship at 2026 WTT Star Contender Ljubljana. But sure... he has no future because you took some Mizutani quote out of context.

Go convince Mizutani. In case you weren't aware, Mizutani actually got into an argument with Togami in one episode of Takkyu Japan reviewing his MD F at WTTC 2025. Togami's under-performance at WTTC 2026 was the final straw.

 

[zeio]

No point in responding, he linked to 3 points at which Chan Baldwin served into the net in a match he won. I know that sometimes the gods speak in mysterious ways but even that was too mysterious for me.

Make that 4 points in 2 matches.

LIVE! | T4 | Q Day 1 | United States Smash 2026 | Session 2
G3 11:12
https://youtu.be/NZ6o4qO87j0?t=6732

 

[NextLevel]

Go convince Mizutani. In case you weren't aware, Mizutani actually got into an argument with Togami in one episode of Takkyu Japan reviewing his MD F at WTTC 2025. Togami's under-performance at WTTC 2026 was the final straw.

Mizutani is likely the greatest Japanese male player in table tennis history and his achievements as a prodigy are not going to be matched by Togami anytime soon unless time travel becomes a possibility. The benefit for players like Togami is that they can show there is another route, which isn't to be not a prodigy at all, but maybe to be less complete as a child but to build out skillsets later and work hard and get closer to the top in older age, whether that can catch up with those who got earlier success is an open question for some, but as Hayata has shown, it is clearly possible.

So by all means, if we assume you are interpreting Mizutani correctly, Mizutani can pronounce judgment from his throne, but that has no bearing on the struggles of everyday players. We can all make predictions, but Harimoto himself for all his early promise has no guarantee of winning any major titles.

 

[golden_son]

That Kao-Xue match did not disappoint! The shot-making from both sides was impressive, but Kao seemed to have superhuman reflexes with his FH counters. Highly recommend the highlight vid if you missed it!

 

[zeio]

Friend or foe?

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...tion-criteria-for-la28-1082.35128/post-580281

 

[SOMTTT]

What country for VPN use for Table 1?

 

[job59]

Yes he is! Hope he stays injury free this time...

Yes. Long time absent. What kind of injury he had?

 

[job59]

What country for VPN use for Table 1?

Yes. Good question. USA doesn’t work

 

[job59]

Yes. Good question. USA doesn’t work

London

 

[zeio]

MS R64
Thakkar WR36 3-2 Coton WR20 (10, -10, 7, -7, 7)
G1 59, 109, 1010, 1210
G4 30 TO for Coton, 31, 41, 42, 52, 58, 78, 79, 711
G5 40, 43, 73, 77, 117

Good old Coton. Could've ended in 3 games if Thakkar didn't pull a Togami when leading and changed his service placement that was winning.

 

[zeio]

Yes. Long time absent. What kind of injury he had?

Something wrong with both legs.

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...d-taiwan-no-2-kao-cheng-jui.36258/post-548916
https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...cup-2025-chengdu-11-30-12-7.37129/post-553710