WTT Champions Macao 2026, 9/8-13

[piligrim]

Kawakami doesn't have BH at all

 

[M51]

With all credit to Hugo, am disappointed with Soras performance. He wants to blast everyone off the table, but it doesn't always work that way in TT. He has to think about strategy for each player. He can learn a thing or two from Harimoto. I love Sora, but getting frustrated with his antics. He is young, am sure he'll learn over time.

Coaching.

Coaching, coaching, coaching.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

With all credit to Hugo, am disappointed with Soras performance. He wants to blast everyone off the table, but it doesn't always work that way in TT. He has to think about strategy for each player. He can learn a thing or two from Harimoto. I love Sora, but getting frustrated with his antics. He is young, am sure he'll learn over time.

I think it was after a timeout and discussion with Coach Morizono that Sora varied the power so that he's not just feeding pace to Hugo who just eats it up. I think in the future he'll do this naturally, but it's a learning process for him. He'll be token #1 on October 5 when last year's China Smash points expire, and it's nice to have that in his portfolio. But his true potential is yet to be seen.

 

[Rao01]

Coaching.

Coaching, coaching, coaching.

Care to elaborate?

 

[M51]

Care to elaborate?

Having an authoritative and tactically astute person in your corner makes all the difference, especially if you're as psychologically and tactically immature as Sora Matsushima

 

[Rao01]

Having an authoritative and tactically astute person in your corner makes all the difference, especially if you're as psychologically and tactically immature as Sora Matsushima

I think authoritative is a good word here. I think Morizono knows what he is doing with Soras, but I think it is not coming off.

 

[FIXPOINT]

WTT Champions Macao 2026 WS QF

WTT Champions Macao 2026 MS QF

 

[FIXPOINT]

Scheduled Matches:
All times are local time.
Live streaming: https://www.youtube.com/wttglobal

Sun, 13th Sep 2026
11:00 T1 WS SF Hina HAYATA(JPN) - CHEN Yi(CHN)
11:45 T1 WS SF Miwa HARIMOTO(JPN) - CHEN Xingtong(CHN)
12:30 T1 MS SF Truls MOREGARD(SWE) - Tomokazu HARIMOTO(JPN)
13:15 T1 MS SF Hugo CALDERANO(BRA) - Anton KALLBERG(SWE)
18:30 T1 WS Final -
19:30 T1 MS Final -

 

[JustANoob]

I havent watched Sora for long but this is the first time I've seen him this emotional, feels like he was expecting to just beat Hugo. Like he's less emotional when he looses to Harimoto ....

I did not expect Kallberg to turn that 1-3 around at all. If dude keeps playing like this he deserves a spot in the top 10.

Both matches were absolute cinema. Cant wait for tomorrow.

 

[jonol]

With all credit to Hugo, am disappointed with Soras performance. He wants to blast everyone off the table, but it doesn't always work that way in TT. He has to think about strategy for each player. He can learn a thing or two from Harimoto. I love Sora, but getting frustrated with his antics. He is young, am sure he'll learn over time.

To be fair, he successfully blasts 99% of people off the table.

 

[J-fed]

With all credit to Hugo, am disappointed with Soras performance. He wants to blast everyone off the table, but it doesn't always work that way in TT. He has to think about strategy for each player. He can learn a thing or two from Harimoto. I love Sora, but getting frustrated with his antics. He is young, am sure he'll learn over time.

He's a fun watch. I'm good with it. Djokovic was a wild youngster but matured. Maybe he struggles with self control in general though. Seems like he needs a minder at the buffet cart too.

 

[kindof99]

Scheduled Matches:
All times are local time.
Live streaming: https://www.youtube.com/wttglobal

11:00 T1 WS SF Hina HAYATA(JPN) - CHEN Yi(CHN)
11:45 T1 WS SF Miwa HARIMOTO(JPN) - CHEN Xingtong(CHN)
12:30 T1 MS SF Truls MOREGARD(SWE) - Tomokazu HARIMOTO(JPN)
13:15 T1 MS SF Hugo CALDERANO(BRA) - Anton KALLBERG(SWE)

Let's see how many I get it right, 3/4?