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ODO won the title. I stick to my prediction that the LA JNT women's team will be Harimoto, Odo + Hayata or Nagasaki [need one leftie for doubles]
No Kihara and no (unfortunately) Hashimoto.
 
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Congratulations Satsuki Odo. I didn't get to watch it live, but from the replay, Satsuki did a great job of forcing Hirano side to side. Odo served a lot of balls to the middle, both short and half long, and then worked the wings. It also looks like Hirano had a lot of trouble with the amount of spin from both wings.

But good for Hirano getting to the finals. I'm happy for her getting her mental health back in order and having a great tournament here.
 
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pickin the young guns Odo and Coton to take this down
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I'm picking Sakura Yokoi and Park Ganghyeon.
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Hirano and Poret. Just for fun.
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I’ll say Park Ganghyeon and Hirano
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I am open to losing, I just want a combo no one else has picked and people have started picking Hirano lol... so Cheng and Jancarik!
*Revised to 1/2. Well done

The 1/2's have it! See you all next time!
 
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Where has Jancarik been? His backhand play eas tremendous and his overall game was really sharp. Must have taken a break of some kind - congrats to him because this is easily the best result for him and the best i have ever seen him play in an event.
 
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Where has Jancarik been? His backhand play eas tremendous and his overall game was really sharp. Must have taken a break of some kind - congrats to him because this is easily the best result for him and the best i have ever seen him play in an event.
I think he is playing in Polish superleague. Yeah he is making a resurgence.
 
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【观赛帖】WTT球星挑战赛金奈站决赛 大藤沙月vs平野美宇 ([Match Viewing Thread] WTT Star Contender Chennai Final: Odo Satsuki vs. Hirano Miu)
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/10490510932
arthur237 这是牢野能直接重返TOP30最好的机会了吧
IP属地:天津来自Android客户端1楼2026-02-15 19:27回复
(This is probably the best chance for Old Hirano to return to the top 30, isn't it?)

arthur237 平野第三局爆分没拿下,估计要被零封了
IP属地:天津来自Android客户端4楼2026-02-15 19:55回复
(Hirano failed to take the third game on deuce. She'll likely be shut out)

aleenxuyi 别说平野还是有点心气的,22年她世排也掉到过40多结果还能爬回来,说不定这次她也能再走出低谷呢,如果她能重新上桌,团体不管是三单抓蒯曼王艺迪还是打二单拼一波上限威胁都是有的
IP属地:江苏来自Android客户端8楼2026-02-15 20:50回复
(To be honest, Hirano still has some ambition. She dropped to the 40s in WR in 2022 but managed to climb back up. There's no telling she can pull herself out of this slump again. If she can make a successful return, she could pose a significant threat in teams, whether it's catching Kuai Man and Wang Yidi as the third singles player or betting on her ceiling as the second singles player)

无法加载昵称Mr 大藤这600分一拿亚运名额又扑朔迷离了
IP属地:河北来自Android客户端11楼2026-02-15 20:57回复
(With those 600 points, Odo's chances of securing an Asian Games spot are now even more uncertain)

aleenxuyi 其实我一直觉得日女团体赛最佳阵容是张本美和+平野美宇+桥本帆乃香,大藤、早田和mima女士对国乒前3号主力的威胁都太小了
IP属地:江苏来自Android客户端12楼2026-02-15 21:09回复
(Actually, I've always felt that the best lineup for JPN WT is Harimoto Miwa + Hirano Miu + Hashimoto Honoka. Odo, Hayata, and Ms. Mima pose too little threat to the top 3 CNT players)


印度球挑,小盒退赛。 (Harimoto has withdrawn from India SCT)
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/10453060503
rsbtai 印度球挑,小盒退赛,男乒前20没有报名。
女乒前二号种子大藤跟长崎。
两个人赚大分,竞争4号位。
IP属地:山东1楼2026-02-02 14:06回复
(Harimoto has withdrawn from India SCT. None of the top 20 have signed up for MS.
The top two seeds for WS are Odo and Nagasaki.
These two players are set to earn big points and compete for the 4th position)

rsbtai 印度球挑更没啥看的了
IP属地:山东2楼2026-02-02 14:07回复
(India SCT is even less interesting now)

慢嗨梁祝 其实木原很有机会夺冠,那个名单她打其他人都是上风球,她有上限的,就是前期别游走
IP属地:河北来自Android客户端5楼2026-02-02 14:48收起回复
(Kihara actually has a very good chance of winning the title. She has the upper hand against everyone else on that roster. She has a [high] ceiling, but the only thing is to avoid exiting early)
rsbtai: 嗯,看了日锦赛的颁奖礼,木原心态真的很好,虽然亚军,季军但是发自内心的高兴。
2026-2-2 14:53回复
(Yes, I watched the awards ceremony of the Zennihon. Kihara has a really good mentality. Although she was the [WD] first runner-up and [WS] second runner-up, she was genuinely happy.)
慢嗨梁祝: 回复 rsbtai :她天赋真的不差,就是性格太不争了,要是争点可能会发展的更好
2026-2-2 14:54回复
(She's really talented, but her personality is too unassertive. If she were more assertive, she might have developed even better.)
追风逐影客: 回复 慢嗨梁祝 :木原要是打到最后一天就赶不上参加选考了,很难思考美和之前还没退赛的时候这群日女到底在想什么,认为自己稳拿协会提名吗
2026-2-2 15:12回复
(If Kihara plays until the last day, she won't be able to participate in the selection trial. It's hard to imagine what these JPN women were thinking before Miwa withdrew from the competition. Did they think they had a sure thing in their nominations by the association?)
 
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Where's the Hirano we were expecting?
Did anyone project Hirano to have a chance at all, say, after WTTC 2025, other than yours truly? So the fact she has reached this far is a bonus.

Likewise, Kihara and Nagasaki finished with WS bronze and WD silver w/ Hirano for the former and WS QF (2021 0-4 Ito, 2022 1-4 Hayata, 2024 0-4 Hayata, 2026 1-4 Harimoto) and WD gold w/ Harimoto for the latter at Zennihon Takkyu 2026. On top of that, Nagasaki beat WYD 3-1 for the first time at Asian Cup 2026. Who projected them to have a chance at all, other than yours truly again?

Where was Odo in those 3 weeks? So why the focus on Kihara and Nagasaki exiting early by some here?

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...-be-revamped-for-paris-2024.24977/post-463776
Once again, players can't peak like that continuously for several weeks. SYB is the best example. She has been playing non-stop and her recent results have only gotten worse and worse. So please.
 
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Did anyone project Hirano to have a chance at all, say, after WTTC 2025, other than yours truly? So the fact she has reached this far is a bonus.

Likewise, Kihara and Nagasaki finished with WS bronze and WD silver w/ Hirano for the former and WS QF (2021 0-4 Ito, 2022 1-4 Hayata, 2024 0-4 Hayata, 2026 1-4 Harimoto) and WD gold w/ Harimoto for the latter at Zennihon Takkyu 2026. On top of that, Nagasaki beat WYD 3-1 for the first time at Asian Cup 2026. Who projected them to have a chance at all, other than yours truly again?

Where was Odo in those 3 weeks? So why the focus on Kihara and Nagasaki exiting early by some here?

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...-be-revamped-for-paris-2024.24977/post-463776
Lol. Stick with Tieba if you want to make such ridiculous claims, you must be confusing your forums to make such ludicrous posts. No one ever wrote Hirano off from playing well, in fact, most of us because we have no insider information on the players are simply content to root for them and enjoy their form based on their most recent matches while accepting that they are all capable of good results. At best, if we have seen growth in league play or national championships, or we know their age and what that might portend with growth, we project that onto WTT tournaments rightly or wrongly. But none of us are like you in pretending to have a crystal ball that makes us omniscient.

In fact, your record of projection is very spotty and it is well known. You repeatedly put down Sora, you repeatedly put down Hayata, you even put down Togami, you put down Ito, and most of the time, your attitude against Odo has been negative. The reality is that everyone is working on their game and the breakthroughs are cool especially in single events, but the consistency is required and most importantly, your ultimate success depends on how well your competition does. No, this Hirano result while good progress, still leaves her frimly behind Harimoto, Hayata and now Odo. It is easy to forget that Hirano was 2-0, 9-3 up on Odo in a WTT match and proceeded to lose it. This match, nothing showed Hirano knew how to play Odo better.

The problem with you is that you make these predictions about the players based on every small thing and then claim brilliance when something small shows you right and forget all the other silly things you have written. Kihara and Nagasaki are entirely fine, I like watching both of them play, but neither has convinced me yet that they are better than anyone else on the Japanese team after Harimoto and that is what matters to play the Olympics. My point is that your preferring them to play the Olympics is just another example of your focusing on something silly and pretending that Nagasaki and Kihara have something that their hardworking fellow teammates do not.

Just about everyone agrees that Japan is pretty much a clear #2 nation and that they can field just about any team with Harimoto +2 against any female team in the world and win convincingly except against China. They could even send Sato, Shibata and Hashimoto to London and likely come back with a silver. So you need to stop acting like you have insights which you clearly do not.
 
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Did anyone project Hirano to have a chance at all, say, after WTTC 2025, other than yours truly? So the fact she has reached this far is a bonus.

Likewise, Kihara and Nagasaki finished with WS bronze and WD silver w/ Hirano for the former and WS QF (2021 0-4 Ito, 2022 1-4 Hayata, 2024 0-4 Hayata, 2026 1-4 Harimoto) and WD gold w/ Harimoto for the latter at Zennihon Takkyu 2026. On top of that, Nagasaki beat WYD 3-1 for the first time at Asian Cup 2026. Who projected them to have a chance at all, other than yours truly again?

Where was Odo in those 3 weeks? So why the focus on Kihara and Nagasaki exiting early by some here?

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...-be-revamped-for-paris-2024.24977/post-463776
In fact, I predicted that Hirano having a good result would lead to more hagiographic posts from you, your annoying attitude sometimes makes it hard to root for players you like because the inevitable result will be posts from you claiming insights. Because that is what you do.

I am happy for Hirano, I would be happy to see her in LA if she can get her playing level above others because to be Japanese #3 is very difficult with the competition. No one pretends it is beyond her, but when playing for a team like Japan, the question of what it will take to surpass Hayata to be #2 or to surpass Odo/Ito and be #3 is something these players ask themselves in practice every day and no one here other than you is pretending that they know for sure what the answer will be. Hirano is looking hard at what it would take to beat all these players, she still has work to do. They all have work to do. Only Harimoto can feel confident that she is secure because she is already able to look consistently at the Chinese. I have spoken to national team players in many countries, they often build their development plans based on players they need to target. I laugh sometimes when you make fun of Togami targetting Harimoto as if it isn't just how many people approach life in competitive national teams.
 
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Shibata posted her thoughts on India after coming back in one piece... LOL

https://www.instagram.com/shibasaki0825/p/DUx7MK_D5Ib/
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