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When you reply to my comment, I'm assuming you're responding to me directly. You must understand it gets confusing when I get a reply notification and I read your comment and almost none of it seems directly to address what I said. That's why I asked for clarification. So thank you for...

Wasn't YJN out for a few months due to injury? Not surprising she'd have some lackluster matches coming back from injury. It's just good to see her back in form again and beating elite Chinese competition. The high toss serve and FH smash is always fun to watch.

Not sure how any of this is responsive to my comment. As you mention, he's abandoned his hook serves recently. That's indeed a fact. Another fact is that it was one of his most effective serves. I'd even go far as to say it was one of the most effective serves in conversion ratio in the entire...

Around 9-9 or deuce WCQ usually pulls out the very successful hook serve. Wonder why he didn't use such a potent weapon in his serving repetoire in this event. Must've forgotten about it.

Not TTR or ITTF's fault players have been allowed to serve illegally for years. They should've been on notice as of recently to clean up their act. It's on the athlete to use their challenge or not.

Maybe unkind of me but I relished every moment of Elbiali getting called on his illegal serve, having points taken away, then seeing him have his own dumb challenge lose against someone who actually knows how to serve legally. It speaks volumes that he didn't challenge any of his own serve...

Yes. Just remember to cover it with a protector sheet when not using it.

Have you tried Loki Arthur China yet? Stays tacky, thick contact feel, and is fast enough when you hit with power.

Seems like having your own dedicated person to CHO for you is a recipe for success. First LYJ and now Sora showing better results with this.

Huge laces Honoka is a mythical table tennis great. Nobody can even take one game off her. Now, where do I buy a Nippon Paint Mallets Hashimoto jersey?

Just learn how to seal your blades. Some wipe on polyurethane. Takes a few minutes to do and leave it to dry for a day. No splinters after that. Most blades made of softer woods and that's not sealed has the potential for splintering whether it's a Sanwei F3 or a DHS W968. The model doesn't...

Holy crap that was the most shocking performance I've seen from Matsushima. Don't think I've ever seen a display of power like that from a Japanese player. Kid was throwing fireballs for the entire match. What I liked was that he was hitting with apparently 100% power but still had the composure...

Hashimoto is playing some incredibly aggressive points lately. At 2-2 games and 8-3, she even goes for a step around FH after her BH punch got blocked back. Really the only concerning thing about her lately is that her shoelaces are so long that the loops are touching the ground and it looks...

Looking a lot like a Hashimoto vs ZYL finals. Really interested in how ZYL handles a chopper. ZYL kinda defensive in her own way using blocks and her opponents power against them. But her consistency and patience means we might see the expedite rule come out again.

Damn that Game 4 by LSS to take it 11-2 against LYJ was one of the more dominating and impressive games I've seen in a while. Some beautiful confident shotmaking there.

Good fight from Ito. Set up her shot winners in the 5th and 6th game well but just missed way too many of them. Can't be doing that in games that close. Wish she mixed it up with some of the slower spinny stuff like she was doing earlier in the match. Still, she's overall looked a lot better...

That time wasting yellow on Ito was pretty absurd. She spent like 3 or 4 seconds miming her service action to see why she missed and gets a yellow. But we were at least treated to her funny reaction to the yellow after. Lol

In the article, Moregard doesn't actually refer to Franziska by name. Just says that he can often lose to lesser players.

You guys think that 5th game ending point was side or edge? I couldn't tell even with the slow mo angles. They asked the ref who gave her opinion and I think that's fair.

"Chatgpt, make me a picture of Xu Yingbin if he were made of wax and on display at Madame Tussaud's. Make sure his skin has 10 layers of foundation and apply some lipstick. The color of the lipstick should be deep ruby red."