RI has a really bad h2h against CYF, especially in three game matches. CYF currently is nearly as good as Sinshu defensively, but has significantly better distribution. That's a combination that can hurt most of the top players and certainly the slightly worse players. TTY, Marin and (on a good day) AY are imo the only ones competent enough to really penetrate that defence.
as i said before, both played good rallies, CYF just have that extra edge that she barely made any errors the whole game while NO gave away many point hitting out or into the net.
I don’t think that counted as a smile She looked like she was about to cry when she was walking up to the podium...