June 30, table tennis WTT Tunisia regular season staged a thrilling duel, Japan’s top Harimoto Tomokazu in the men’s singles semifinals in five sets of hard-fought victory, a large score of 3-2 to beat the 17-year-old teammate Matsushima Teruko, the deciding set is to play to the 12-10 only to distinguish the winner, after the win of the game Harimoto Tomokazu was thrilled, directly on his knees and kowtowing to celebrate the victory.
Harimoto Tomokazu / Kina Hayata has already won the mixed doubles title in this tournament, in addition to the Japanese team in the men’s singles and women’s singles programme in advance of the first runner-up, men’s doubles, women’s doubles also advanced to the final, is indeed a great victory! See below for details of the battle.
Harimoto Tomokazu and Teruko Matsushima are both among the best of Japan’s young players, with the former having a long history of fame, having reached the men’s singles quarter-finals of the World Championships at the age of 13, and ranked in the world’s top 10 at the age of 14, and currently being the team’s number one starter. The latter is even younger, now only 17 years old, but has also reached the first-class level of foreign associations, many times to beat the world champion, this year almost will Chinese table tennis team main Wang Chuqin toppled.
Prior to this, Harimoto Tomokazu and Matsushima Teruko had a meeting in an international tournament, and the result was that Harimoto Tomokazu lost to the other side in a cold 2-3, so even though Harimoto Tomokazu’s rankings and results are much better, he does not have the certainty of a solid win.
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As expected, the two athletes played a tough match right from the start, and Harimoto Tomokazu was extremely passive in the first set, chasing down a 9-all tie-break, and then narrowly winning 11-9 with a 2-point advantage to take the top spot. The second set was also very close, this time Harimoto Tomokazu quickly fell behind 6-10, then saved three set points, but eventually lost 9-11, and the two were back to the same starting line.
Harimoto Tomokazu gradually found the feeling of the game in the third set, and constantly suppressed Matsushima Teruko to get a hand, after 5-all successfully pulled away from the gap, and eventually won 11-6 to force his younger brother into a desperate situation, but unexpectedly the fourth set was 2-11 collapse, the game was dragged into the deciding game.
Harimoto Tomokazu started the fifth set in a passive position, trailing for most of the game, and was almost given match point at 6-9, but soon won four points in a row to overtake the match at 10-9. But it was Harimoto Tomokazu who was able to win 4 points in a row to take the match to 10-all, and then Harimoto Tomokazu was able to finish the match with a 12-10 win to advance to the final round of the men’s singles.
As mentioned earlier, Japan has already won the singles title, with Harimoto Tomokazu and teammate Yukiya Utada in the final, and sister Miwa Harimoto facing Sazuki Oto, while Harimoto Tomokazu/Kina Hayata have already won the mixed doubles title.
According to the schedule, the Tunisian tournament will come to an end on the evening of 30 June, sitting waiting for the results of the men’s and women’s singles and doubles finals to come out.
