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Yeah but who are the Olympic champions? Or is that a Teams designation as well?

There are already 4 Japanese - one may have to pull out for Honoka to get in though there are five Chinese so she should be there....

I know what he means, but she reliably (not accidentally) loses to her teammates. It would be interesting to see a Zhu and Hashimoto rematch as the Zhu that won the US Smash was an upgrade in my eyes. Just presenting the view that disagrees, you may agree with him but I cannot make a her a...

The trajectory/speed. I haven't tried Tenergy 19 but that might be the comparison. A rubber that sends the ball through the table safely. By comparison, Dignics 05 seems slow (arcs higher) and doesn't block as well. With 80, passive blocks are safe and controllable while 05 needs more of a...

You can't be #2 in your country when you can't beat at least 3 players in your country (Miwa, Odo, Mima).

Wang Chuqin plays doubles and ducks Lin Shidong who struggles to beat Yuang Houzeng. Great look... Hopefully theee is a good explanation because he might have cost his team the match. Where are Lin Yun Ju and Liang...

He played pretty well in the final too. Ecen scared Hugo in games 2 and 3 though Hugo fought through it and somehow miraculously won game 2 and almost stole game 3 as well but give it back. He made Hugo play amazing shots repeatedly to win and that is all you can ask.

I have loved D80 and even when I try other stuff, I keep coming back to it.

The final was a bit more interesting that I expected, even if of course you were entirely right. And the second seed didn't get there, it was the person who beat him who did.

Oikawa playing very well. Will be interesting if he can keep this level in Japan.

If she plays at the level she played vs Hayata, I have no doubt in the mind. It's also inappropriate in my view to confuse a level with an actual rating. A level is a quality of play. You can achieve a quality of play and never have the ranking. You can also achieve a ranking while the...

More complete, I don't know, Batra has the height problem but she serves, twiddles and uses the pips at a higher level (though the pip usage level is debatable) and arguably counterloops at a higher level as well, the issue is that Sreeja has that raw opening power and ability to take balls out...

In the last two games, Sreeja got much closer to the level that gave Hayata problems. If she could play consistently at that level she would be top 10. It is easy to forget she also has a win over Wang Yidi.

So now we know why Miu Hirano is not on tour... 12-10, 12-10, 11-9 ...

Nah, Sreeja took so much risk that if she can play like that consistently, she will be top 10 for sure.

Unfortunate, these are top 50 quality players sidelined because of sanctions against Russia. They were juniors a few years ago and relatively young and should have been the generation to replace Shibaev and Skachkov. It's a pity how war ruins everything.

Yeah that was really weird. Here I was thinking Sreeja had a poor draw but then saw Hayata had a poor result lol.

I spent more money on blades and I have concluded that the modern Korbel is the Harimoto ALC or SALC. The blade feels extremely slow and controlled to me compared to what I usually play with (Viscaria SALC) LOL. I still have to do more with it but I am comfortable recommending it to a player...

Pros train a lot and swap rubbers a lot and sometimes use extra additives a lot as well so comparing their needs to ours can be a bit misleading when we might change rubbers every 3- 6 months and not reglue rubbers in between or add other moisture containing performance enhancing chemicals. So...

Matches are on now... still qualifiers but interesting to see who made it and who didnt.