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Seems Lee Sang Su has been marginalized by the Korean team for younger players. Somehow, LSS still Has maintained his overall level. Seeing him alone during game breaks and TO is a little weird.

Simply put, WTT needs to raise the overall level of its refs. WTT has first world pro players with third world refs. Players and fans deserve better.

Not too fast, WYD or Miwa stands near by. They both can cause trouble for her.

I agree with NL about his objection that this forum is obsessed with Japanese women team. Rather, people showed genuine interest to that team for lots of reasons and majority of them are legitimate. For 10, 20 years, JWT has provided constant challenge to the only giant in CWT. They failed...

Pretty face with muscular legs?

Miwa is future star? She probably has already been the brightest current Japanese star.

I'll pick Ma Lin over Ryu in a second. Ryu is Olympic champion, so is Ma Lin. Ma is also 4 or 5 times world cup winner, 3 times world championship runner up. As matter of fact, I'll also put Wang Hao ahead of Ryu by a mile even though Ryu did beat WH in the olympic. H2H WH beat Ryu in a land...

With SYS and WMY, both are absolute the best in women's game, in the lineup, not much Japanese women could do. This situation can last for next few years. Last time, Japan women beat China was mainly self inflected wound by the Chinese coaches as Ma Lin, for untold reason, kept WMY off the...

That might have something to do LA Olympic. Lefty and younger QM has better chance acquiring third card than CXT and WYD. But QM needs to prove her worthiness in the big stage. So, this is the test ground for her. Glad she passed it even though a little shaky.

Yes, sound technical capacity can loosen up quite a lot of mental demand. Ma long is a perfect example with highest winning ratio while he himself thought his mental toughness was something he could improve during an interview in Waldner cup.

China may have some promising young stars on the horizon, but for the next 2, 3 years, the core will likely the same players we saw today, i,e WCQ, LSD and LJK. The Chinese system tends limiting young stars exposure to the big events hindering their growth. Japanese system is little more open...

I remember Fang Bo, one of LJK's former teammates commented before that LJK's main strength is not power but his spin. He also commented that the main reason LJK won the majority of deciding games is he would then focus more on spin as a way to reduce errors. Turned out LJK is not just known as...

Notice, all the matches went to distance, especially the first match with all games decided by the thinnest margin. This is probably the greatest team match at high stage for the last 10 or 20 years. Realistically, in order for Japan to beat China, Tomo needs to beat two Chinese and his...

Like their female compatriot team who beat China last time with Miwa as the brightest star, this time, Japanese male team seemed to be destined to the same miracle, especially they won the first two matches. Well, fate said not this time and Japanese men just let the cooked duck fly away. LSD...

There is a reason LJK is often referred as 'come back king'. Not only he has the mental toughness, his spin game is the main reason as well. When the match goes to the decider, LJK will start to impact extra heavy spin on his top spin shots. Most good coaches know, when the game gets tight in...

In fact, the two games(second and third games) he won, mostly with his forehand. Actually, forehand to forehand rally against Felix, LSD was ahead. The first game, LSD was mainly posturing for his backhand but Felix repeatedly hit his forehand and got many easy shots as LSD was not ready to...

Minus injury and other unpredictable events, it's a safe bet that WCQ will be the next grand slam winner, which means he most likely will be the next Olympic champion couple years down the road. LSD is strong but he has vulnerability to be explored and most his opponents already know that. WCQ...

One obvious observation after watching men's semis and the final. WCQ seemed a totally different player between the semi and the final. One fatigued, uninspiring, slow and bored; One, the familiar invincible and inspiring with a little anger. Felix,on the other hand, also seemed quite a...

To coaches, raw talent is not hard to spot. The speed, the quickness, the bouncing footwork, the close table backhand loop swing to wide angle and down the line at will, is all you need to see a player's talent and ability. Hard work? At national team level, this is a given. At pro level...

Remember LGY is in the top tier Chinese team for many years. The Judging criterion for Chinese is different and unique. H2H winning just means he is high level player and very talented. To be a great for Chinese, you need medals, medals heavy and many. To be clear, when I say LGY is an excellent...