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Though this serve was illegal by 1.25 degrees lol

I love this umpire. He’s actually faulting players’ illegal serves

Yes, I don’t think I’ve seen any challenges initiated by the opposing player since the start of the knockout stages. Regardless, umpires should fault the players more and if they think it’s unfair the player can challenge it and if it turns out to be legal then they replay the point.

Finally, Hugo redeemed himself after his loss in Paris

So all this time, it was out of the umpires’ kindness that the players could challenge the opponents’ serves?

It’s not riskless but there are very few players whose serves’ angle is lower than 30 degrees so based on that the pros outweigh the risks by a ton. And by that I don’t mean the very illegal 40+ degree serves but even a 31 degree serve is illegal where it’s rare not to be able to see the contact...

Oh, so you mean right after WCQ touched the ball? I guess he could’ve done that but in case the serve wasn’t deemed illegal he would’ve personally made Duda lose that crucial point. Winning in the traditional way is harder but creates no controversies and doesn’t disturb the players

If he had signalled that before touching the ball then there’d have been no problem with that but doing it after a fully committed receive which you dumped into the net would make him look very unashamed and it’d deemed sportsmanship, especially winning this way. (It’s not like WCQ’s serve...

On average, top Chinese have a high probability to win deciding games. Also, home crowd helps a ton. Just watch the match between Harimoto and LSD at WTT Fukuoka or F Lebrun vs LSD at WTT Montepieller.

Cause then the system would be abused by the players at such situations. It would stall matches even more and create controversy. I believe it’s good as it is now until the system can check the serves automatically in hindsight or better yet immediately like in badminton. Or they really should...

Funny thing is, even without doing anything after the serve if he requested a ttr serve check for verticality regardless of the type of serve the odds would’ve been in favour of Duda judging by the controversy behind WCQ’s serves.

well, that serve throw angle was a lot more than 30 degrees but it is what it is. I want to see any of you looking for a faulty serve instead of receiving it well at such a crucial situation, especially such a fast serve

It’s not like he can challenge it after missing the return.

That’s when most player pull that fast long backspin ball out. It can really catch the opponent off guard just like how it did this time too.

it was a fast long ball and he reacted on an instinct. He didn’t have enough time to think it through to challenge the serve. I didn’t watch the entire match. Were there any serves challenged?

Duda really fumbled that by missing that serve at 7-6, thus gifting a point to WCQ to equalise. Though, luck was totally on WCQ’s side this time

Bro, just how much luck does Wang Chuqin have in this 5th game?

Ok, what the hell are these sounds Harimoto is making after missing a point? Hearing him shouting is enough, these are way too overwhelming.

Holy, Felix Lebrun is out. The Chinese Taipei player is moving on to the 2nd stage

Yeah, funny thing, most of the times if they think the opponent hides the serves they should call for serve angle fault cause the majority of the time the angle is more than 30 degrees when the serve is hidden and it’s visible from any angle, whereas sometimes blatantly obviously hidden serves...