I think he's perfectly capable of doing that himself. How many times he's hit free shots straight into the net?
I really wonder what they're trying to achieve with these pairings. It's clear Japan is lacking XDs, as Higashino/Watanabe are not living up to the expectations at all. But the Yonemoto/Kaneko and Hoki/Hirota pairings are all living and training in totally different areas of Japan. Same for Matsutomo/Kobayashi. Pairing Matsutomo with Kaneko would have at least ensured that two players from the same team play xd together. What they are doing now, is never going to win them real titles, just exhausts perfectly good wd players.
No matter how many Denmark pairs in Japan or Chinese pairs in Malaysia, KevinGideon says just beat them all... only BoeMog can stop them like in SG/Korea.
To be fair, I think Hirota played 5 games in the space of 2-3 hours yesterday so I'd understand if she's fatigued. But her partner...hopeless.
Yeah, that's my point. She's part of THE best wd of 2017 and has to spend her energy on dragging a mediocre player who's significantly shorter than her and who she's ever going to train with during national training camps, through an entire tournament. Energy which should have been used yesterday for trying to make it 3-0 vs Takamatsu this year.
