Скачать или смотреть ITAGAKI Koharu vs MURAMATSU Cocona | U15 girls singles semifinal|ITTF World Youth Championships 2025

Koharu Itagaki (Germany) beat Cocona Muramatsu (Japan) 4-3 in a semifinal of the U15 girls singles.

This was a really huge match between two great players with a huge desire to win the match. A real fight! Muramatsu has her chancces. She was leading the first set 10-8 buy lost it 10-12. She was leading the 7th set 4-1,. 6-4 and 7-6. Muramatsu's serves were again powerful. She got 11 direct points with her serves and 11 indirect points (first attack after the serve). Together 22 points of those 64 points that she won!

Muramatsu is very young as she is 2012. So she was 13!

Nive to know story follows:

Muramatsu beat Miku Matsushima 3-2 (11-9 the fifth) in the Japan's cadet championships in the beginning of November. Thus Muramatsu was sent to these world championships instead of Matsushima. Matsushima has won Japan's U13 championship five times in a row but has now lost the cadet final two times by a narrow margin.

Murmatsu started to play table tennis when she was three. In upper classes (since she was 10-12?), she took private trainings after the group trainings and practiced till 22.30. She did her homework in the car when returning home. Both of her parents are former table tennis players.

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