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They don't oppress their people anymore than your government do yours, and their reasons for hosting the tournaments are the same reasons why any country hosts a tournament.

Honne and Tatemae But this time Ito can't distinguish .

Interesting for me to see that Hirano and Hayata were serving as "practice partners" and especially "BALL PICKERS" for their teammates during the Tokyo Olympics. One for the future spats......

Yeah, personalities like this need to be humbled. That ship has to be sunk.

Nah, this was bad blood

All top Chinese players have to prove that they're near invisible against the closest opponents. It's standard procedure for the team. Not something that is peculiar to Ito. Even now SYS,CM & WMY have to prove their mettle against their adversaries from Japan, Korea and the relatively rarer Euro...

Ding Ning was already on schedule to retire at the time she did; Chinese ladies usually retire around 30. Zhu Yuling had cancer and her treatment effectively took her out of TT. Ito didn't retire either of them. At best you can say she beat Zhu Yuling twice in WORLD TOUR EVENTS. Not even at any...

Ito's style always had limitations, and save for 2 or maybe 3 tournaments where she was able to go on a run against Chinese players; she's largely been subdued even in her heydays. What we're seeing is just Hayata, Hirano and Harimoto playing high level top-notch shakehand TT. And Ito still...

Choking two big leads in the fifth and sixth set, and then a small lead in the 7th... That doesn't sound good. And scholars says when it starts very young, It keeps happening... This is not looking good.

I think unfamiliarity with Dina's serve may have made it difficult to flip on the fly. But if you know your opponent's serve rotation pretty well, you could probably attempt to flip it and get good percentages on your attack. I've seen WCQ flip serves from righties to his BH, but it's usually...

Sun Yingsha has gotten herself a lifelong sworn enemy ; 9 points in 3 games is quite brutal. I didn't watch the game, so I'm curious; Was Miwa's serves completely cracked today?? I'm sure Miwa is going to watch the film at least 5 times, maybe hang a picture of SYS in the rafters of her personal...

That forehand drive to win the match was a beauty. Looks like perfection - spinny, speedy, jams the opponent, placed deep in the backhand, forces an error.

Good to see that Boll and FZD are good friends.

The point is amongst the current crop of players who've been competing hard over the last 3 years, he's won the most titles. That's certainly something going for him. I never referenced ZJK or the fat man that doesn't know TT. It's not pertinent.

Also, I don't see LSD as the answer the Chinese team wants tbh; his style is very much like FZD's. It was effective some years ago against 99% of players. Nowadays it's very vulnerable. Winning the WJTTC or WYC doesn't mean much; how his results translate to the big stage and consistency is what...

The all time great Ma Long has matches where he's lost multiple points in a row. A very bad day can happen. What matters is ability to win on the big stage. WCQ has won the most WTT events; that speaks for itself. And if he's in top form in the Olympics, he'll most likely win it. So what...

I tried to translate it on Google Translate, but it kept redirecting me to mainichi. Sucks.

I've always thought his swashbuckling turn the corner counter-drive style looked his Xu Xin's at his best + a backhand that could contest with the best without breaking much sweat or running helter-skelter. This picture seals it for me. Looks exactly like Xu Xin's posture doing the shovel...

Olympic winner is whoever is in the best form + plays the hardest + easiest draw among the crop of players in the top 20.

Very true, even WCQ admitted it and said he didn't play well in the match. I guess Hari's new tactics confounded him a bit. Maybe if Hari had stuck to what they anticipated, it'll have been an easier 3-0.