Miwa Harimoto vs Kim Kum Yong _ QF-WT _ 2025 Asian Team Championships

To serve. It's a beautiful season. The form is also good. This match against Cha Su Yong and the world number six. Quite a skill under Arhud. What an attack. Is playing good skills against Kim. She was trailing behind but now Kim is leading by two points. Again went. What do I do to get one point? Look at that. Plays with so much of deception. Expect a lot of hard work and sweat for every point. This time Miwa Harimoto has 67% advantage here. Tantalizing. Kim has taken back the lead by two points. Onto the net now. What a hit. Converted Miwa's attack in her favor and then won the point. Miwa had controlled the ball but she went behind. You've got to have something special to go and translate it out there and the path consistently. Look at this. She is getting a bit jittery. India in general has been very lucky for Miwa. Or rather I wouldn't say lucky. She made a senior debut at the WTT star contender Goa in 2023. Eliminated a seeded player. That was during her senior debut of course. What a hit. Kim reached up. She eliminated the third seed Kasumi Ishikawa. She also entered the finals of the mixed doubles event alongside Miyu Kihira. Has got to channelize the positive vibes that India may be giving her. She is a very aggressive challenger. Has no effect. Absolutely. Howsoever the long rally or long matches. Look at this. She chopped the ball. Sliced it again. Kim is a hard task master. This time she is not right of PR Korea. A bit of history between these two as the world championships in Doha this year. These two had played each other. Now once again I am looking at the warm up area. Over there. Wow. For a timeout. What do you make of this timeout? 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 did it. Look at the revenge in her eyes. My other question to you. Are you going to call it an upset if it happens? Yes of course. I think she is doing a fair amount of job. And fair amount of hard work. Just looking at Harimoto. My God. Harimoto. What a powerful forehand. And on to the forehand. Again. It was Kim Kum Yong. Who did she beat in the final? Miwa Harimoto. There is a neck to neck rivalry between Kim. Good jet relaxed even on one point. What a beautiful reverse she has. And displacing her. This time 8-4. Third game. Miwa to serve. Good punch. I think you have to stop calling her victories upsets. Because she is someone who... In comparison Kim has only played 49. And in spite of that 42. Now imagine if she gets more of those matches. With the limited number of international exposure she has got. But these two are really 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. With that banana. Right now it's time to have banana. Between Japan and DPR Korea. Quarter finals. That's what Kim was waiting for. Not an easy task. Such a controlled. And aggressive player she is. What an element. In her sprits and in her eyes. Wow. Harimoto. Must be really really tiring. Specifically for the attacker Harimoto. She missed out. A teammate. Kim's teammate is getting ready. For a possible fifth match. Look at those counters. Wonderful. But she hits the net this time. Miwa Harimoto. We talked a little bit about that. High quality table. The first four point rally was almost 12 shots. Slowly and slowly the intensity is increasing. With a 33% serve success. That means she is using good deception here. Yeah. Harimoto has. And that game has gone in favor of Harimoto. Harimoto levels things. It was against Hina Hayata. Wow. Sachin, you have obviously been a coach yourself. I am sure you would have told your students. Absolutely. Now as the DPR Korea coach. Will you take the timeout? Yes. The mixed double silver medalist. The singles champion. Recall right now. But at this moment. Miwa has managed to get one point. How good was that defense? Ball keeps coming back. With a much more deeper slice. What a magic doing now. 8-1. Who would have thought. Miwa. Harimoto. Going for this match point. Game has got the better of Harimoto. This is the second time. That she has beaten her.