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I'm fancying my chances on betting that she won't win the domestic title ( All Japan right?) next year. She's still behind the top 3, She's got a decent chance against Ito though. Her time will come after Paris, but she's gotta surmount Hirano and Hayata for that to happen. It may turn out that...

Yeah, It's a beautiful tournament Battle of the Europeans Vs the 2nd level Asians.

It was done for "shared values" братан.

It's the world we live in. Ban the men, and allow the women to "show" the dictators.

The Afghan men team did not ask for their country to be usurped by the Taliban. Banning them is unproductive and hurting the athletes rather than the government.

Imo Niwa and Mizutani are given too much praise, maybe it's nostalgia or something, most of their success was domestic. They didn't do anything special in singles. Even Harimoto has reached their highest accomplishment in singles at 19. So the rest of the upcoming guys from Japan can be cut some...

Harimoto is dropping down the rankings at this rate, he was second, then third, now he's fourth, soon he may be fifth or sixth. He needs Hugo to not win this tournament, and he needs a mesmerizing performance at Frankfurt. 1065 points expiring at the end of the month, and more expiring in late...

Nice one, radiant people.

It'll work magic against FZD in Frankfurt, don't worry.

China National Games 2021 Team's event. Beijing Vs Guangdong.

I don't see this to be true, virtually everyone had had a major reversal of that sort of magnitude against them happen, might be international match, might be local leagues. It happens. Ma Long had a 10-4 overturned against him in the 5th set against FZD like 2 years ago, Does Ma Long have poor...

If Wang Chuqin is terrible because of a 0-19 bagel and yet he's WR1, that's an eyesore for TT and for the rest of the players.

The guy has literally reached like 3 finals this year, was 3rd place in the WTTC, and won the Asian championships. Those should expire in a year. Are you trying to say the finals and Asian championships/ WTTC are all worth 555 points? This sounds like sensationalism to me, without even looking...

Wow interesting, so what's the 2800 points due to expire? I assume the bulk of Ma Long's points are his Olympic points. And he's not been playing at the big tourneys for China for almost 2 years now. Is it the WTTC?

The Olympics point must expire before the next Olympics start??

"Multiple match losses" could mean 5 in a year- not really a cause for alarm, most of them may have been to FZD for all we know, that's right! he actually lost that world cup to FZD. Nervetheless he won 2 out of 3 majors at that time, what matters more?? I think his health was under good control...

Ma Long just won the worlds in 2019, was runner up at the World Cup in 2020 and won the World tour Grand Finals in that same 2020; Doesn't look like there was a possibility of him missing Tokyo.

Confidence is related to skill level and success, fear is naturally derived from other's abilities, not something that the mandarins in Beijing are scheming about, they've got better things to worry about. China simply kept winning easily because of the gap in skill and organizational acumen...

I know that's how they've train, most fans have heard tales of all their antics and tactics. What I'm saying is the team will adapt when it needs it. It hasn't needed to adapt much, so it has stuck to the old paradigm. I think in recent years with more hours devoted to strength training...

Why can't they match it/ beat it? Ma Lin and WH did not play any more Olympics because they had juniors that could beat them and the opps consistently, that's my point. On one hand, you're attesting to the CNT being weak, and on the other hand you're saying this weak CNT will most likely be lax...