WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2023

[turbozed]

No thread for this event yet so here it is.

You all need to watch the last set between Togami and Gacina. One of the best games I've seen all year.

Starts about 1 hour in.

 

[NextLevel]

Looks like Batta has found something to work with vs Bernie that others may copy. Get her moving to the wide forehand after pinning her on the backhand.

 

[turbozed]

One of the more anticipated matches of this draw so far with Moregard and Alexis Lebrun. The tension was palpable and the first couple of sets certainly delivered.

Interesting that Moregard wasn't playing to Lebrun's pace. Instead of obviously stalling on every serve receive like Licen, he picked some moments to not get set at his own pace. It got a few lets from the ref, and maybe a small bit annoyance out of Alexis, but mostly I think it just helped him play looser.

 

[JJ Ng]

Great tournament so far! Ma Long got knocked out. The Youtube comments say Ma Long threw the match to make way for the new, younger player to gain more experience. That is a bunch of Horsesh*t. If Ma Long wanted to throw the match, he would have done it in three straight games. By waste energy and possibly suffer an injury to go five sets?

 

[Dan]

Huge win for Quadri Aruna defeating Lin. A lot of unexpected results in this event. Looking forward to watching Truls vs Wang 💪

 

[Fnub]

About match Aruna-FZD.
In the second game 6-10 Aruna leads FZD missed own serve. But they replayed. After all FZD won 3:0. Who knows, why did they replayed? Or that was a fault?

 

[mikeytt]

third time lucky for calderano as he takes out togami. overall a good tournament for togami though who i hope to see continue at this level in future, we have seen from japanese national tournaments that he has the potential to be a fantastic player.

 

[mikeytt]

felix winstreak is ended, zhou qihao backhand is amazing

 

[fore.n.back]

third time lucky for calderano as he takes out togami. overall a good tournament for togami though who i hope to see continue at this level in future, we have seen from japanese national tournaments that he has the potential to be a fantastic player.

sadly, I think not, Togami has won Hugo twice before. Given the experience of the previous matches, he should've handled better this time. This is the best chance he had to entered the top 4 in a tournament and he blew it

 

[mikeytt]

Ahhh Hugo coming so close to beating fan zhendong, it was a great match but fzd showed his class at the end of the last game

 

[Draycott old man]

I'm watching the Match between Sun Yingsha v Wang Manyu the quality or the table tennis is amazing!!!! But the umpires need to be stricter with Wang Manyu she keeps being told to play but takes her time !!! Not right should be given a yellow card so the game keeps flowing!!! Maybe a timer like in tennis!!! Wow as I'm watching Wang Manyu has been given a yellow card!!! They are both playing far to slowly!!! Such a shame they are both using gamesmanship to get a upper hand !!!!

 

[kingkimchi]

Hong Kong were doing so well T-T. But we always have to face Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha. It' been 4 times now I think in the XD semis. Maybe if we faced Liang and Qian we would be in the finals.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

Point of the year ??

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[NextLevel]

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Nah. Fan just didnt touch the ball, he would have won that point otherwise. Point of the year for me is the Moregardh-Chuqin rally. Those Chinese #1s are tough!

 

[NextLevel]

sadly, I think not, Togami has won Hugo twice before. Given the experience of the previous matches, he should've handled better this time. This is the best chance he had to entered the top 4 in a tournament and he blew it

Yeah but just like when Togami beats Harimoto, is it because Togami is so much better or has such a better matchup that his opponent never deserves to win? Of course not, the matches are close struggles where Togami usually comes out on top but those things are not stable if repeated over and over. Togami will get more chances but Hugo was always capable of beating him and lost tough matches.

 

[fore.n.back]

Yeah but just like when Togami beats Harimoto, is it because Togami is so much better or has such a better matchup that his opponent never deserves to win? Of course not, the matches are close struggles where Togami usually comes out on top but those things are not stable if repeated over and over. Togami will get more chances but Hugo was always capable of beating him and lost tough matches.

yeah, re-watching the highlights I noticed Hugo have exploited the forehand of Togami with straight backhand shot very well.
A thing I noticed is that for a vocal player like Togami, he's totally quiet throughout the 4th and 5th set, maybe this will mark a new change for him in match mentality

 

[igorponger]

Mima getting below her own par. Forhand cannon remained silent all along.