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Hari-boy still trying to hold the table rather than go into the rally and give himself time. Let's see whether he can find any success doing this. His short game has to be perfect and so far it hasn't been.

Both Felix and Darko use sticky hybrid rubber on forehand so I don't think it was so much a strategy as just how they played. Harimoto's has also improved his forehand but whether that will make a difference, we will see. It has been a bad matchup for a while and the Sora match shows that it...

Obviously, as the foreigners get better, the repercussions have been relaxed. Everyone knows the expectation but if he doesn't win, it is not like they have serious alternatives. But this is WCQ vs Harimoto, which is for them about as good as it gets. Chen Yi vs ZYL is a bit meaningless in...

WCQ's recovery is better than LSD and even more importantly, WCQ is a lefty so he is just harder to read and can hit angles that Harimoto is not used to defending. If lefties were common in table tennis, righties would train those angles too and it would be far less of an issue.

Lebrun plays head games with his serves as well. He decided not to open that can of worms.

And they choked to prove you right and me wrong again... I need to retire...

That's the one reason why I wasn't in a rush to push for Harimoto but that said, look at what Felix and Darko did - we can hope. And Harimoto has shown an increase in forehand power and ability doing some new things - even his ability to serve long and get low enough to hit the Lin Shidong...

Kinda sad given Hugo's absence - thankfully, Euro Smash is coming...

Now the question can be asked: what may have been if Togami did not upset Harimoto at the WTTC lol...

Regardless of result, I was clearly wrong lol....

Watch the Anders Lind interview with TTD and don't take my word for it, take his lol.

Now we will really see the will power of Hari-boy. I think Hari is done.

This timeout reminds me of the timeout against Hugo at the World Cup - not a good sign.

Harimoto should get a yellow card for those extended delays heading to the table. It's clearly habitual and likely deliberate.

Because of Darko's relative success and because both Darko and Felix are Tibhar players (and Tibhar tables are slippery like Joolas), I hesitate to say confidently that Felix has leveled up. But it does look at this stage like he has in quite a few ways.

Chen Yi I feel happy for. Tall TT players suffer enough in silence lol. Her story of overcoming rapid growth might inspire a few more. I do want Zhu to win. Might be minor compensation for having her career hit by cancer but this would he extremely satisfying.

Nah. Table Tennis: we need a paternity test...

She isn't winning WD.

Harimoto uses two calls of faults against LYJ. Killed his momentum as LYJ won the next two points. But anyone who thinks pros don't want to win by faulting their opponent's serves is missing the point completely. He wins the game on serve return because LYJ had to be more careful to avoid...