WTT Star Contender Foz do Iguaçu 2025 7/30-8/3

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Wild point at 2-1 11-10 of Miwa/Odo vs Cheng I Ching/Huang Yu Jie. Ball hits the edge of HYJ's paddle resulting in a lob that almost spins back to their side of the table. Odo smashes it while also clearly knocking the net assembly and table while the ball was technically still in play. Should be a point against the Japanese pair ending the match. Instead we go to 2-2 now.
 
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How is Duda improving when it seems all other Germans are regressing. Impressive considering his age. He is very enjoyable to watch, and his service game is really good!
When you say all others do you mean Timo and Dima?

From what I've heard from many, Duda's work ethic is unmatched.
 
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What about Huang Yu Jie?
New WD partner (could be temporary).

CIC's WD partner used to be Li Yu-Jhun starting from the Paris 2024 cycle and up until WTT CT Buenos Aires 2025. Got some solid results but then Chien Tung-Chuan crashed the party (which I foreshadowed over at MyTT), displacing Chen Szu-Yu from the WS to WT and Li Yu-Jhun in turn lost her place for WT.
 
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Duda improving? I've been constantly told otherwise.
Noting this here as a clear example of Zeio's inability to understand English or his willingness to lie about someone's position just to win arguments. Anyone can look over the internet for where or when I or anyone else said Duda wasn't improving when the context was whether Uda beating Duda in one match while Togami (who has beating Duda a few times in German League) losing a close match to Alexis Lebrun was good evidence that

1) Uda had surpassed Togami and in order to make this case,

zeio argued that:

2) Duda and Alexis Lebrun were roughly the same level at the time of this match, while I believe that Alexis Lebrun was at a higher level (not unable to understand that others might disagree, but I stand by this view). How that implies that anyone thinks Duda was not improving is open to zeio to explain.
 
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WTF.,. need to find and watch this and see what happened....

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WTF.,. need to find and watch this and see what happened....

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Don't care enough to do a deep analysis but seems like Yoshiyama was completely controlling the points with short receives up through game 4, so Hwan Bae started serving half long to long forehand and wide angle backhand to prevent this, Yoshiyama tried a few flips over the table unsuccessfully and then completely fell apart basically.
 
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Noting this here as a clear example of Zeio's inability to understand English or his willingness to lie about someone's position just to win arguments. Anyone can look over the internet for where or when I or anyone else said Duda wasn't improving when the context was whether Uda beating Duda in one match while Togami (who has beating Duda a few times in German League) losing a close match to Alexis Lebrun was good evidence that

1) Uda had surpassed Togami and in order to make this case,

zeio argued that:

2) Duda and Alexis Lebrun were roughly the same level at the time of this match, while I believe that Alexis Lebrun was at a higher level (not unable to understand that others might disagree, but I stand by this view). How that implies that anyone thinks Duda was not improving is open to zeio to explain.
Like always, besides the German media from May this year, you now have even more people to convince.

Deutschlands Bester: Duda sieht „Potenzial nicht am Ende“ (Germany's best: Duda sees "potential not at an end")
https://www.tt-news.de/2025/07/01/deutschlands-bester-duda-sieht-potenzial-nicht-am-ende/
Roßkopf also hints at this, looking at Duda's personal best in the world rankings. "Despite all the fluctuations in the world rankings, 'Benne' is currently our strongest player and very valuable to us. But he's also a hard worker and a consummate professional who always strives to improve even the smallest details. He's on a very, very good path, and ultimately, there's no limit to what he can achieve because he always sticks with it and works hard in training."

Benedikt Duda and Annett Kaufmann "Table Tennis Player of the Year"
https://www.ttbl.de/news/post/67a377d1c33ec500019586ba
 
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Like always, besides the German media from May this year, you now have even more people to convince.

Deutschlands Bester: Duda sieht „Potenzial nicht am Ende“ (Germany's best: Duda sees "potential not at an end")
https://www.tt-news.de/2025/07/01/deutschlands-bester-duda-sieht-potenzial-nicht-am-ende/


Benedikt Duda and Annett Kaufmann "Table Tennis Player of the Year"
https://www.ttbl.de/news/post/67a377d1c33ec500019586ba
Continuing the slimy behavior and not addressing anything I wrote. Thanks for proving the point.
 
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Continuing the slimy behavior and not addressing anything I wrote. Thanks for proving the point.
Once again, feel free to quote players' and coaches' comments to back your argument. Anything else is wasting my time here.
 
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