Miwa Harimoto vs Kim Kum Yong | QF-WT | 2025 Asian Team Championships
to serve. It’s a beautiful season. The form is also good match against Chasu Yong and the world number. Quite a skill under her hood. [Applause] What an attack. Displaying good skills against uh Kim. She was training behind but now Kim is leading by two points. again went. What do I do to get one point? Look at that place with so much of deception. uh able and expect lot of hard work and sweat for every point this time. Ma Ma Harimoto has 60 67% advantage here. tantalizing. Kim has taken back the lead. Two points. A good pass onto the net now. Lasers up. Sharp focus. What a hit. converted MVA’s attack in her favor and then won the point. MVA had controlled the ball, but she went behind. Beautiful. You’ve got to have something special to go and translate it out there and the park consistently. Look at this. She’s getting bit jittery. Oh, it was that India in general has been very lucky for me or rather I wouldn’t say lucky she made her senior debut at the WTT star contender Goa in 2023 eliminated a seated player that was during her senior debut of What a hit Kim reached as she eliminated the third seed Kasumi Ishikava. She also entered the finals of the mixed doubles event alongside Miyu Kihira has got to channelize the positive vibe that India may be giving her. Yes, she is a very very aggressive challenger. Correct. Has no effect. Absolutely. Howsoever the long rally, a long matches. Look at this. She chopped the ball, sliced it again. Two. Well, Kim’s a hard task master. All right. Get confused. This is this time she’s not right off PR Korea. Wow, that ripping. A bit of history between these two as the world championships in DHA this year. These two had played each other this time. Now once again I’m looking at the warm-up area and over there. Wow. Wow. Wow. For a timeout. What do you make of this timeout? It’s in fact we are just watching. She has come in the center. I was expecting her to do this. How did she miss that? Will Kim go 2-0 up? Yes, she she did it. She did it. Look at the revenge in her eyes. But onto the Japanese player. My other question to you, are you going to call it an upset if it happens? Uh yes, of course. Somewhere up to Ma Harimoto. So, so I think she’s doing a fair amount of job and fair amount of hard work to just looking at to Harimoto. My god, Harimoto, what a powerful forend work. And onto the fore end again. Oh wow. Chip in Astana. It was Kim Kumyong. Who did she beat in the final? Na Harimoto Aana. So there’s a neck-to-neck rivalry between Skim. Good jet relaxed even on one point. What a beautiful rubber she has and displacing her. This time 84 third game MIBA to serve. Oh, good punchy. I think uh you’ve got to stop calling her victories upsets now because uh she’s someone who maybe in comparison Kim has only played 49 and in spite of that 42. Now imagine if she gets more of those match national arena with with the limited number of international exposure she has got but these two are really uh symbols of excellence one would say and this time it’s gone good that was her 50th match that she played earlier so it was 39 victories out of that you do the maths at home with that banana right now it’s time to have banana in along between Japan and DPR Korea quarterfinals That’s what Kim was waiting for. The not an easy task. Such a controlled and aggressive player she is again. What an element in her spirits and in her eyes. Wow, Harimoto must be really, really, really tiring specifically for the attacker. Harimoto, you missed out. See that her teammate, Kim’s teammate is getting ready for a possible fifth match. Look at those counters. Wonderful. Oh, but she hits the net this time. It’s three. Miawa Harimoto. [Applause] We talked a little bit about that one high quality table rallies are increasing. The first four-point rally was almost 12 shots. Now slowly and slowly the intensity is increasing. Oh with her 83% serve success that means she’s using good deception here. Yeah, Harimoto has and that game has gone in favor of Harimoto who levels things. A delight to see. And it was again Shina Hayata. Wow. Let me tell you Sachin, you’ve obviously been a coach yourself. I’m sure you would have told your students to watch the game. Oh, absolutely. I now as the DPR Korea coach, will you take the time out because just for the sake of it, why would Yes, the mixed double silver medalist at the Paris Olympics in the singles. the singles champion recall right now. But at this moment, Kim has managed to get Mia has managed to get one point. How good was that defense? Clee was hitting the ball and ball keeps coming back with a much more deeper slice. What a magic doing now. 8-1. Who would have thought? Of course. Ah, Ma earned by Miaoto. Ah, this time she is going for this match. point. Kim has got the better of Harim Moto. This is the second time that she has beaten her. Last year in a start.
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