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It goes farther back than that😋, but it does bring back fond memories! Tempest was using a Butterfly Tempest D13 (before they came out with Scriver) on a Butterfly j-pen, with painted bare wood on it’s back. I had a Butterfly Comet C4 (pips) on a Crown c-pen blade with a cork back. While I was...

wah!!..where did all these praying, weeping fans come from? The stadium was almost deserted at earlier matches.

not fair…CM got to taste all the Japanese delicacies, and Bernie can only look forward to an old can of Chunky soup…in France yet!

I still consider WMY a better choice than CM though.

CM has just wiped out the entire JNT OG team single handedly, losing only one game. What has WMY done? (OG happening in 77 days).

Hirano has to retire first…but no demand yet, so..

腍鳩軟 LGY should get viagra to sponsor him. 😝

The kid is obviously still on tilt, compounded with delusions of grandeur. Question is what knocked her off the deep end into the abyss ?🤔

Draws for R16 is out https://worldcupresults.ittf.com/eventInfo?subEvt=WSINGLES&selectedTab=Draws&eventId=2937

Significant difference and sharp contrast with Ito…🤔

"Focus...it's everything" Table Tennis Kingdom 2024-April (p83-89) a chat with Hayata Hina KONNO Noboru (excerpts) To Hayata, the All-Japan was not only a stage to examine herself under heavy pressure, but also a stage to prove her strength for Paris. In the six matches, Hayata had only...

Ito was only 14 at the time. The match with Han Ying was R32, Ito came back from 3-11, 4-11, 4-11 to 12-10, 11-7, 11-9, 11-9 to win. In R16 she beat Shan, QF Che Xiaoxi, SF FTW, and Solja in the final. Solja lost her composure towards the end, and Ito rolled her up. These games were available in...

True…but ”gracefully surrendering the things of youth” is not in her making, as yet. Resting on one’s laurels is the saddest manifestation of decline. Maybe she’ll outgrow the petulance, or maybe the tide will overwhelm her. We think her rise has reached the zenith, she just can’t accept (but...

Thnx apacible…we saw this on Japanese TV, way earlier than 2022, but very gratified that it found it’s way to YouTube, and you found a link to it. Tempest was tracking the validity of JOC Elite Academy, and was using Ito and Hayata as ‘placebo’, (vs Hirano). Btw, there were exposé like this on...

Ito needed to do well here to gain as much points as possible for Olympic (Team)consideration. She didn’t. edit-removed erroneous info

古いビデオが新しい携帯電話で再生されません…削除されました…すみません…Comet しゃべりすぎる 🤐

In her collection, Tempest actually has a video clip of Matsuzaki quite upset, in tears, sitting outside after a row with Ito a few yrs ago.

The JNT menu - Miyazaki is a short-order cook but heading a fine Japanese restaurant. Watanabe is a family doctor finding himself in the operating/surgery room. Hayata is stew from a crockpot slow-cooker. Hirano is stir-fry, somehow stuck into the fridge, just now defrosting. Ito is beef...

In the same Table Tennis Kingdom issue with Hirano’s interview, the Editor-in-chief also did an in depth one with Ito Mima, a full 7 pages long (pg130-137). The following are some excerpts. Q: you’re always cool, unflappble, but there were tears when you didn’t make it after the Trials… Ito: at...

edit-wrong thread for this