Satsuki Odo vs Zeng Jian - WS R32 - #WTTFrankfurt 2025

looking to use what she's learned from playing against those Japanese players well of course as we see that raking backhand across the table there for the first point for Odo it was another Japanese player reach those deeper angles and there again now two points earlier we'd seen something you spoke about before we came on air today which was the fact she has this compact style but that does mean that when she plays a winning position that makes her dangerous yes definitely in there you can see that compact style she's staying close to the table her shots and strokes are so compact so small she's very good at recovering in there fighting back in the third and the fourth she left the table open there but even so that was class from Odo right over the top of the ball you see there tell me what you've made of the Satsuki Odo service oh that's nice again this is where she's so good she just doesn't go away she's competitive persistent oh and she got some help off the net there when it looked but drops the first of those two game points it's 10-9 now so dogged play from the Singaporean beaten in the end by another rapier like backhand and anything you can do says Jiangjian upset last week in Montpellier to heal for a player as young as her there we go well she's showing no signs of it hurting her at the moment with a forehand like that but yeah definitely i think as a open there's only one winner in this at the moment thank you Satsuki Odo that is absolutely world class there you can see as well she's coming we're not going to expect that she absolutely batted one there what a couple of shots there from Satsuki Odo the first well talk us through this now here we go there we go that's going to take some beating hence these expansive shots five oh some gen just took her game points here in frankfurt to level it up which she does very nicely indeed so love one and there we go that was definitely a little bit of tip for tap there you know it was i'm going out wide forehand generally speaking although it's a little bit more nimble around the table if she can maneuver change and it works same place love what a rally that was you know they both stay close to the table fierce exchanges and it was all about getting that extra wide and just grasping the edge of the table with that shot again she goes into that same part of the table but this time with a is very impressive she knows in the best of five anything can really happen oh again two if come the end of this one auto wins we know what the shot is going to be that makes all of the highlights reels definitely that forehand as well but that forehand has caused a little bit more trouble there you can see eight three but that is the area four i think not only that nine first time she's really given her something a little too short to sit up and be punished and it was but it's a comfortable 11 5 there it is this game really has ebbed and flowed and now at the moment you feel that the momentum is with the japanese player but we have to say it it's a big fourth game now in this round of 32 and that's the beauty of this maria isn't it definitely not you would not want to rule her out right now it was three two last week slightly different way of the games going this week but you never know five you needed that looking to wrap this up like that sung jen reacts if she loses at this point there you go she needed that one there as well i was and that's where they're going it's gonna be her fifth again for the second time in just under a week these two are delivering an epic round of 32 for the singaporean so she will start as favorite who would you lean towards maria game you know she knows she can do it it's gonna be fun finding out this because i'm with you on this i think she has to keep playing the expansive shot she mustn't tighten up but there's that little extra surge listen to them now this is really reaching a level because jung jen is about more than just hanging in there she knew that she could try and pound her way to a win looking on there she's not giving anything away four four six they're more often than not winners there we go right there that powerful win your points and she must hit there's one six oh that was very very similar to the previous point as well advantage you know every point of that fortune there off the net and that was there to be put away and weak then not yet the talk ends time to serve and she does it and she gets the revenge but she was pushed so so hard once again by her singaporean having won the first and then being held back won the third and then paid back again