May 18, Doha World Table Tennis Championships outbreak of Japan and South Korea focus on the two Chinese table tennis team rivals Harimoto Tomokazu (Japan), Lim Jong-hoon (South Korea) narrowly met, the results of Harimoto Tomokazu played a stable large score of 4-1 to beat their opponents, and a single game only let Lim Jong-hoon to get a point, which is relatively easy to advance to the Men’s Singles 64 stage, see below for more details on the battle.
Harimoto Tomokazu and Lim Jong-hoon are both top tier players, and have both broken through China’s main defence many times, with Harimoto Tomokazu winning against Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuchin, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, and Lin Shidong and Lim Jong-hoon winning against Xu Xin, Wang Chuchin, Liang Jingkun, and Lin Gaoyuan, making this matchup a true Outer Association showdown.
Prior to this, the two athletes have had seven encounters, Harimoto Tomokazu has 4 wins and 3 losses; and from the age point of view, 2003-born Harimoto Tomokazu also has an advantage over 1997-born Lim Jong-hoon, so this time is generally more favourable to the Japanese player to win.
However, before this, the Korean athletes often in the competition has a super level of play, so by many parties are afraid, and Harimoto Tomokazu and the competition was cold ‘regular’, now the first round of the fight with Lin Jong-hun, may not not be the other side of the breakthrough, the battle is still in suspense, the two sides will certainly be doing enough difficult preparation.
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Harimoto Tomokazu started the match more aggressively, while Lim Jong-hoon was slow to enter the state of mind, although the middle part of the game still played his backhand and line advantage, but Harimoto Tomokazu eventually stabilised and refused to be overturned by the opponent, and eventually in the latter part of the game again opened the gap and took the first place with 11-7.
Harimoto Tomokazu took the lead again in the second set but was overtaken at 4-5, but he followed up with a speedy game and soon had set point at 10-6, before hitting a lucky shot to the side of the court to take the next set at 11-6.
The third set was completely one-sided, with Harimoto Tomokazu almost shaving Lim Jong-hoon’s head, and eventually taking the win by a wide margin of 11-1, thus pushing the Korean player into a 3-0 lead, and only one step away from victory.
In the fourth set, Lim Jong-hoon was on the back foot but soon lost three points in a row and had no choice but to call a time-out to make adjustments. After returning to the court, the South Korean player tenacious chase to 4-4, 5-5 tie, Harimoto Tomokazu was once overtaken but soon also achieved reversal, but the lead used up their own timeout and then was chased down to 9-9 tie, followed by 9-10 behind to save the set point, but ultimately fell to 14-16 failed to speed up the decision.
The fifth Harimoto Tomokazu again suppressed each other, and this time Lim Jong-hoon has no opportunity to pause to get a chance to breathe, soon to be the Japanese player 10-3 lead to get seven match points, the final Harimoto Tomokazu 11-3 to end the whole game, and thus eliminated Lim Jong-hoon 4-1 to advance to the men’s singles round of 64.
