Beijing time on January 12 early morning, table tennis WTT Doha star tournament again produce an unexpected winner, 20-year-old Chinese table tennis team rival Harimoto Tomokazu debut, and 16-year-old Japanese young generation, there is “Harimoto Tomokazu successor,” said the hopeful Sora Matsushima to start the competition, the results! Harimoto Tomokazu 2-0 lead was reversed after losing 3 games in a row, thus stopping the men’s singles thirty-two round trip!
Young People Should Be Highly Regarded. Harimoto Tomokazu is only 20 years old, but he is already being attacked by a 16 year old, which is a real Young People Should Be Highly Regarded! See below for more details.
Match Focus
Harimoto Tomokazu and Sora Matsushima are both representatives of the young Japanese men’s players, the former was born in 2003, the latter was born in 2007, exactly one year difference in the age of the Olympic cycle, due to the fact that they are both young and famous, and they have a very early victory over the World Championships, so many people will Sora Matsushima called Harimoto Tomokazu’s “successor! “The first time I saw him was when he was a young man.
Although his current performance is not comparable to that of Harimoto Tomokazu at the same age, Sora Matsushima has improved a lot lately. He also won the mixed doubles with Harimoto Tomokazu against Harimoto Tomokazu/Hina Hayada, and naturally, he wants to topple his predecessor in the men’s singles this time as well.
How the match went
The first set started with a fierce attack – Sora Matsushima’s strength is his strong backhand banana flip, in addition to the fact that recently, due to his physical development, he has become a bit stronger than before, so his level of play has also improved significantly. But Harimoto Tomokazu also had the advantage in these areas and was more experienced, and soon won the first game 11-8.
In the second game, Sora Matsushima continued to play a messy game, not utilizing his left-handed strengths, and was completely led by Harimoto Tomokazu, resulting in only 4 points this time to close out the match, and another loss would have resulted in a sweep and elimination.
In the third set, Sora Matsushima finally started to let go of the offense, while his opponent played more conservatively, and many of the balls were of little quality, and then Sora Matsushima won only 2 points to take the match back to 11-9. He then went on to win just 2 points to tie the match at 11-9, and then continued his attack in the fourth game to take the match to a decider at 11-7, and things were not looking good for Harimoto.
Harimoto Tomokazu remained passive in the fifth set, and although he saved match points to tie the match at 10-all, he ultimately lost the entire match 10-12. The result is a huge cold, really people did not expect!
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