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He has no chance of beating his opponent, because his opponent isn't even trying in this video. The reason he is playing slow is because TB is so far below his level but he is being friendly and letting him at least have a small chance to make a few shots.

August/September

LYC's forehand betrayed him big time at the end of the 7th and his backhand kept him in it - painful way to lose with so many chances...

Louisgenius is a serial liar about being sponsored and a Chinese professional player and who knows what else. Don't waste your time.

So is the pressure he is failing under due to the magnitude of the tournament or the strength of the field now?

Which you can get a read on by looking at what he mentioned before the ball is actually moving, and at which point you'd probably be too late to react to a fast long serve.

Yep, this.

Last I checked, WCQ and LJK are entered in this tournament so not sure how you consider him a "favorite to win". Sure, he's been one of the top players in the world for those tournaments but that, or one's earlier successes as a child, don't make you a "favorite to win". Who by your estimation...

I'm not sure that he's the favorite in any tournament that ML and/or FZD are in, unless travel means a medal favorite.

He was the favorite in this tournament? And what other tournaments are you referring to where he was the favorite and flamed out?

Nah, the Togami that showed up today is the Togami that shows up in Japan and that version has always been an elite player that poses problems to Harimoto. Though I'm guessing your commentary is based off a dislike for Harimoto personally because of his choing and not an honest analysis of his...

Someone forgot to tell Togami he is in Qatar and not Japan?

You can take risks in the rally but you have to get to the rally first. That didn't happen for TB in the clips shown in this video. Trying to be more aggressive on the serve receive or third balls that he was already missing would have just led to missing even worse. The point is that you can't...

He has answered the question - this was clearly just a casual mess around situation and its unlikely his opponent was giving more than 50% of top effort.

This is what happens to anybody when they are playing someone 400+ points better than them, it isn't just TB. Also why I asked for a video against someone his level but he hasn't provided yet...

Fair enough. I forgot about that Uda match. I still fail to see how the plug hasn't been pulled on LGY yet but even so he didn't look like himself, as well as Gauzy was playing.

Zeng Jian has seen better days but it's still not impossible for anyone outside the top 10 to lose to her. Just sucks it happened for Adriana in this tournament.

I can't really conclude much from a 2 minute video where your opponent is much better than you but I'll try to take a look if you post more against people your level. No, focusing on counterlooping wouldn't win you a lot of points at the 1900 level and improving isn't as simple as "focusing on...

Going 6 games with a guy that probably none of us knew before this week was probably a warning sign. I watched the match against Gauzy and it looks like LGY is moving in slow motion and much less explosively compared to what we've seen from him before.

Your issue with receiving the serves was not really that you didn't read the spin correctly, it is that you didn't read the depth correctly and were not able to cover the fast serves to the middle and backhand. Your topspin game is not an 8/10 - you don't recover at all after the first topspin...