Margaryta Pesotska vs Hina Hayata | WS R32 | #WTTMacao 2026

...won by Zhou Qihao against Deng Qiu. That was a great encounter there. Zhou Qihao has been playing really well. Kosovska's got a very dangerous backhand. Yeah, brought it out there. I was just going to mention her, another player who's been around a long time, but she seems to be enjoying a new lease of life by all. She defeats him quite a lot. It's good to see Hina clearly impeded her last year in particular. Even then she played a lot. And spoke about how she feels she has a new lease of life now. So clearly she's just taking every opportunity. Hanoka Hashimoto in the semi-final and then about 12 hours later defeated Hitomi Sato as well. It's the first game and it's a fairly straightforward enough one. Yeah, she hasn't got a great record of the times she's going to do it. Credit the quiet mind she came back. Oh, lovely. She does that diagonal line. The more Hayate can play the backhand into the... Easier said than done, but... And you can see why it's so... Misses. Misses this... She defeated Yuan Jinan to get through. She then faced Zhu Ling. And this time she goes the other way. To the backhand and then a quick switch cross-court. Invited the rally, was brave, decided to step... Clunk off the edge of the table. She's missed with a couple of... Staring at seven game points for a two game deficit. There you go. A little bit more aggression, a bit more command. That is an area for Posatzka. That's just... Full commit. Yeah. Oh, and that just flicks off the edge of the... Blade as it goes by. A lot yesterday in his match with... Yuzhang. And it gets... Backspin as well, so just open the rally up. If you're Posatzka. But the key to that... You push at her, she rips it with spin. You open up and she cracks a counter. That was a little bit of a... Never know, things might start flying on. There's that... Beautiful. We've seen it so many times down the years. That deceptive is anything, Hina. Just as I say that. But when she has to, she'll... Apologizes for that. She's feeling great. So those attacking shots. She's just flowing. But this is better. There's a clear advantage... Kind of in the short technical game for Hayate. So just... Oh, I love that. Just probing away. Remember, she's already down heavily on the scoreboard. That's the backhand. There it is again. Oh, she's angry with us. Wonderful, fast, long serves come out here. It didn't. And that might... That is that. The end of the road in Macau for Margarita Posatzka. Unable to replicate her form in Yokohama. But for Hina Hayate, well, this might just be the start of the road here in Macau, Joe. An impressive, efficient start. She was very good. I said in the warm-up, this might come down to whichever backhand can target the wide forehand of their opponent. That's how Hayate finished the job here and sealed the deal and booked her place in the round of 16. She looked magnificent.