It could be that this service judge is strict and follows what he sees rigidly, and other service judges are too lenient and choose not to call it if it's "close to being okay"..
I think neither hoki or koba are good enough for yuta, they both are too error prone. koba arguably is even worse than hoki, very unstable player.
Hoki killed the vibe of Yuta. I already knew this would happen. Hence predicting 50/50 here. If Kanta holds LsF then JPN will have a chance via Nishimoto. But i doubt he can beat LSF
Was a good game considering the Japanese was a scratch pairing ( excluding those errors from hoki though )
Igitt. This boring CHN MD really wins. Sad. But well they won, so they were better... But tbh if JPN can't take it even if Momota wins and CHN is with this squad they will never beat chn. But it's still open. Exciting SF s as both are open
I'm so triggered by Hoki. How can a player at this level be so consistently mediocre at the net? He can't kill anything decisively at the net. Blocking all day doing nothing to create chances. It's a combination of Yuta performing badly plus Hoki being worse than he normally is. Whatever He JiTing gave away in service faults, Hoki returned the favours with his net shots. This abomination of a scratch pairing should never happen again. Ever. Stick to Koga. He's the only one with the goods to complement Yuta.