Saudi Smash 2024

[NextLevel]

Lin Yun Ju already out after a civil war with Chuang Chi Yuan. Whether in national interests or not, thanks WTT for profesionalizing the sport...

 

[zeio]

Would've happened sooner or later. Now who's blaming everyone else but CCY for his own ranking here?

 

[zeio]

Achanta dumped 2 of 3 match points into the net.

Will be a miracle for Aruna to reach the QF playing like this.

 

[NextLevel]

Achanta dumped 2 of 3 match points into the net.

Yeah but Quadri served to a location with deception that he wasn't expecting. Mr Forehand is a smarter player than people give him credit for. Even the last thirdball was immaculate, that was probably the first time he took that shot the whole match.

 

[NextLevel]

Would've happened sooner or later. Now who's blaming everyone else but CCY for his own ranking here?

Why should we, he isn't being hyped up as some terminator who the Chinese are quaking in their boots at facing and should be playing ahead of LYJ...

 

[kindof99]

Why should we, he isn't being hyped up as some terminator who the Chinese are quaking in their boots at facing and should be playing ahead of LYJ...

I prefer to talking about boosters with igor than about this kind of topics.

 

[turbozed]

Don't let that matchball highlight be your main impression of the match, Drinkhall lost the first game but dominated the match.

I watched both matches while they were happening live and I've never seen Drinkhall look better! Even the donkey by Pistej was a good lob right to the end corner of the table and not that easy of a play to make. It was just a bit interesting to see two matches won byhim due to large opponent mistakes on the same day.

 

[NextLevel]

Will be a miracle for Aruna to reach the QF playing like this.

It was always a miracle for him to make the QF. He won the match he was favored to win and should be the underdog by seeding in the next match. By seeding, he is not supposed to make the QF.

 

[zeio]

Like Hayata at Singapore Smash 2024, LYJ is down with influenza B. What a convenient "objective factor" that becomes an "excuse" for others.

WTT大滿貫》林昀儒被B型流感打敗 首輪直落三不敵莊智淵
https://sports.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/4662636

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

Miwa v. Szocs and Hirano v. Chen Meng in R16
Winners meet in Quarterfinals

Wang Yidi v. Yang Xiaoxin and Ito v. SYB in R16
Winners also meet in Quarters.
In the same quarter, Kihara and Nagasaki to meet in R64.
Winners meet SYB in R32.

Miwa has to play Akula in the R32 and that's not a done deal at all.

Jieni says y'all forgot about me!

 

[NextLevel]

Like Hayata at Singapore Smash 2024, LYJ is down with influenza B. What a convenient "objective factor" that becomes an "excuse" for others.

WTT大滿貫》林昀儒被B型流感打敗 首輪直落三不敵莊智淵
https://sports.ltn.com.tw/news/breakingnews/4662636

Don't think anyone would call influenza an excuse except the most macho competitors. But competing is like that, especially when you can't get out of playing.

 

[zeio]

Why should we, he isn't being hyped up as some terminator who the Chinese are quaking in their boots at facing and should be playing ahead of LYJ...

I don't know. Toriola hyped him up at WTTC 2024.

https://von.gov.ng/busan-2024-african-teams-suffer-defeats-in-opening-round/

“I am aware that the Japanese are afraid of Aruna and their coaching crew have been worried about their formation of their team,” former African champion Toriola said.

“But when the news filtered that Aruna would not be coming, they were a bit relieved that they have a bye to the next game. But we can give up even though it is a big blow to the team here in Korea and we will not give up hoping that we can progress from the group.”

 

[turbozed]

Jieni says y'all forgot about me!

What on earth was that crazy backhand serve she does from the far FH corner? Great weapon to break out at deuce.

Is it just a weird tomahawk serve? Sometimes it looks like she's hitting the BH part of the rubber with it, sometime it looks like it's the FH?

 

[NextLevel]

I don't know. Toriola hyped him up at WTTC 2024.

https://von.gov.ng/busan-2024-african-teams-suffer-defeats-in-opening-round/

My comment was in response to your post about CCY beating LYJ where you asked why we were not blaming CCY for his ranking.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

What on earth was that crazy backhand serve she does from the far FH corner? Great weapon to break out at deuce.

Is it just a weird tomahawk serve? Sometimes it looks like she's hitting the BH part of the rubber with it, sometime it looks like it's the FH?

Yeah, she has this reverse tomahawk with side swiping action that can give her opponent trouble.

 

[NextLevel]

Pretty much the Ding Ning serve, but she can serve straight heavy backspin out of it with a different swing to the short righty backhand as a changeup that was very effective. That straight backspin won her a few points at crucial moments.

Yeah, she has this reverse tomahawk with side swiping action that can give her opponent trouble.

 

[NextLevel]

Gauzy gets to face the big head man-to-man!

 

[NextLevel]

Kallberg snatches defeat from the jaws of victory yet again!

 

[zeio]

And Kallberg never disappoints, yet again.

 

[Metaxa]

Yeah, she has this reverse tomahawk with side swiping action that can give her opponent trouble.

Sabrina Surjan, however, had little (no)problems with it. She lost the match due to individual mistakes while countering.