I suspect she is arguing that because women and men play the same length matches in table tennis, while in tennis for example, this is a dispute point in grand slams.
They were bronze medallists in Busan so they do have some pedigree, even if they were arguably lucky. Romania though for me is the deeper and better and more deserving team, regardless of result. A team that is so deep that Diaconu cannot play regularly is something special. And even behind Diaconu, the depth is strong. France has similar arguments to be fair, but I still take Romania.
what do these numbers represent, just curious?
Why suspicious? It was obviously encouraged by his coach and his mentors.
Bruna finished 6-0 too, while sitting out the last group match. Let's see if Hugo will get eliminated while not losing a match too. Felix will be tough to beat...
Yeah, it doesn't actually say...
Hugo has the new rubbers... that said, he hasn't played a top 10 player so far because Brazil are the only men's team outside the top 8 that beat a seed (England).
The machine translation got confused by the wording and made a contextual connection between two adjacent clauses. It should read "Furthermore, [we've changed] from the 21-point system to the current 11-point system and [we've provided] the equal prize money for male and female athletes [and those] are all very important changes."
Romania also did that a few years ago after winning the European championship
