FILE PHOTO - Table Tennis - World Team Table Tennis Championships - Group C - Chinese Taipei v Japan - Halmstad Arena, Halmstad, Sweden - May 1, 2018. Tomokazu Harimoto of Japan reacts after winning the match against Chih-Yuan Chuang of Chinese Taipei. TT News Agency/Jonas Ekstromer/via REUTERS
(Reuters) - Japanese teenager Tomokazu Harimoto stunned reigning world and Olympic champion Ma Long 4-2 in the quarter-finals of the ITTF Japan Open on Saturday.
Harimoto, 14, was thrashed 4-0 in the pair's previous meeting two years ago but the world number 10 showed plenty of grit to overcome China's Ma 11-8 11-9 11-7 3-11 2-11 11-6 in front of a packed venue in Kitakyushu, Japan.
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