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Doesn't get better than a rally like that at match point in game 7 for the biggest upset of the tournament. Hugo even snuck in a two handed BH in there lol. After so many almost upsets this tournament, it kinda felt like we'd get another good performance in a loss. Made this win more surprising.

Why would you suggest I was looking for a sinister reason? All the reasons I suggested were valid 'fan' reasons to support her. I'm just wondering if anyone who follows fan support had any insight. You saying 'they like what they like' doesn't really add anything to the conversation.

Hugo with a huge win! Good to see him finally playing his strongest game when it counts deep in a tournament. Harimoto looked to have some terrible body language and attitude that match in particular. Wonder what was going on with him.

Yeah, they were the bizarre names referenced in the translated interviews zeio posted lol I'm wondering now if they were just bad translations or if Chinese fans really call the Harimotos 'Small Carton' and 'Big Carton'

I can understand that CNT might prefer KM to Fish, with Silver Sha getting a bit older, and having to deal with Small Carton who will get better in the next few years. But I can imagine that the fangirl support is coming from reasons that aren't purely to do with the actual sport.

I never knew table tennis blades were made in Haiti.

Can anyone explain why the SYS/WCQ fangirls have seemingly taken to supporting Kuai Man over all the other Chinese women? Is it just because of the 'Little Buddha' aesthetic? Or is she some sort of online personality outside of her play? On the table, she appears to be the most vanilla of...

After getting a pleasant surprise with the new WTT announcer the past couple of events, the difference with the announcing this time is really stark.

So close. Had a match point even. Ballsy of WCQ to do a fast long serve with his event life on the line. WCQ not looking as dominant as he has before, especially when on serve. But, he's shown more resilience in tough situations, and maybe that's a more important quality to have in order to...

Odo really needed to take a time out in that 5th game. Was up 10-6, then let Ito rattle off the next 6 points in a row. Needed to be stopped after 3 or at the very worst 4. Youth with no coaches present and this type of stuff happens.

Really great match between Truls and Gauzy with some of the best rallies of the entire event. Gauzy may not have too many titles under his belt, but he's going to have a very long career highlight reel and he seems to be adding to it at an increasing pace lately.

Thoroughly enjoyable match to watch. Some of those points were downright artistic with Diaz able to send back everything but Mima's most powerful smashes. Both girls demonstrated great feel for the ball and that led to some cool rallies with unothordox stuff mixed in. There was a point...

In the 2nd and 3rd game it looked like she forgot how to hit a FH. CIC kept challenging her there and they all kept missing the table. By the time she found it again in the 4th game, it was already too late. Except it wasn't, because Hayata kept fighting as you said. The fact that Hayata...

The man has superhuman reflexes and athleticism. I can imagine him being one of the GOATs of multiball training. But yeah he needs to find a way to bring that sort of game consistently in his matches.

What an incredible almost comeback by Hayata there. She looked dead in the water after 3 games missing almost all of her FHs. Credit to CIC for righting the ship after a horrible Game 6 where Hayata was doing peak Hayata things flailing about and being goofy but bizarrely effective.

I know she only managed a 2-2 tie but I was extremely impressed by Lily Zhang's improvement against choppers here. Just a couple years ago the scoreline would've been a 0-4 wide loss. Really speaks to a lot of hours on the table practicing against that style. Good job to Lily.

Annette challenged for "hiding" but they heard "height." Honest mistake I guess with the language barrier. There should be unambiguous terms for serve challenges that don't sound so similar to one another.

Another interesting to come out of this TTR implementation is that of the half dozen or so serve challenges I've seen made, they have been exclusively calling out ball hiding. None of the receiving players seem to care mcuh about angle or toss height, so long as the contact is visible. This is...

It's nice that TTR is proving what we've been expecting all along about some player's serves. I think Lind was caught out once with a hidden serve earlier on too. I like watching both Odo and Lind play but some of their serves were obviously suspect. Anyone know what the confusion was regarding...

Amazing mental toughness by WMY to fend off 3 game points and take the 3-1 win. Looks like Bergstrom was really bothered by not putting the game away at 10-7 and it just snowballed from there.