WTT Star Contender Doha 2025 - 6-11 Jan 2025

[zeio]

To me the slo-mo is inconclusive (if only we had the bird's-eye view from right above or even from right behind). Even if the ball did not hit the shirt, it would still not be an easy put-away shot because Aruna's "Matrix" stroke put a ton of spin on the ball.

 

[Janard]

Matsushima looks like he was forced to play with Miwa by Kinoshita and doesn't really want to communicate beyond the bare minimum lol.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

JTTA's selection system doesn't care about that. Matsudaira Kenji will turn 36 this April and he's going to WTTC 2025.

Did JTTA select Kenji?
Or did Kenji select himself (by meeting fair criteria set for all)?

 

[zeio]

Matsushima looks like he was forced to play with Miwa by Kinoshita and doesn't really want to communicate beyond the bare minimum lol.

Tieba users call him 贅空/son-in-law Sora (but lives with the Harimoto family) for good reason...

Last but not least, he still has 8 years to get it right!

 

[backspacer]

Has anyone ever seen Sora smile on the podium?

 

[FIXPOINT]

WTT Star Contender Doha 2025 WS SF

 

[FIXPOINT]

WTT Star Contender Doha 2025 MS SF

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

One Miyu in the singles final. I would have preferred her bestie but glad to see her confidence level going better

 

[Gozo Aruna]

2025 and Aruna is in the 2025 MS SF Star Contender event. What a great start to 2025!!!

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

KIHARA got Boko-Boko'ed in the Final by KUAI Man...

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Congrats to KM... wow, that forehand! Congrats to Kihara for making the finals... had a very nice win over Chen Yi in the SF.

 

[NextLevel]

KIHARA got Boko-Boko'ed in the Final by KUAI Man...

It would make a plot for a good movie if China and Japan exchanged junior WTTC champions and we could see what each country put the players through and where they ended up after the exchange program. Kihara was beating Kuai Man or at least competitive when they were juniors. Then they go through their national training programs and one comes out a terminator as an adult and the other looks like she belongs in the juniors again. Hopefully, Miwa won't look this bad against Kuai when they inevitably meet.

 

[piligrim]

Has anyone ever seen Sora smile on the podium?

You can ask same question about most japanese and chinese players

 

[NextLevel]

One Miyu in the singles final. I would have preferred her bestie but glad to see her confidence level going better

Her bestie also got boko-bokoed to be fair...

 

[NextLevel]

You can ask same question about most japanese and chinese players

No. I don't know what tour you are watching but stop it already.

 

[zeio]

KIHARA got Boko-Boko'ed in the Final by KUAI Man...

Gotta tip my hat to Hirano for going 1 on 3 at WTT CT Zagreb 2023 (3-1 LWS then 3-1 KM then 4-3 SYS), where Harimoto 1-3 KM (and then Ojio H. 2-3 KM) then Kihara 2-3 LWS then Hayata 0-3 SYS.

OTOH, it's difficult to imagine the only CNT player Ito beat in the last cycle happens to be KM at WTT SCT Ljubljana 2023.

 

[zeio]

WTT performance appraisal
2021- Chinese fandom cultured
2024- French fandom cultured
2025- Japanese fandom cultured

 

[Robin0910]

He should‘ve called that timeout in the second set. It’s too late now being 3-0 down

 

[zeio]

Harimoto needs to prepare extra pairs of underwear from now on.

Mizutani: Freeballing is the way to go.

 

[Robin0910]

Well, the first 3 sets were close but Groth collapsed in the last set. He doesn’t have that final push to close games against consistent players. Although had he had a coach or had Harimoto not, the finals score would have probably been different