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The biggest thing is losing the bronze medal match to Dima. But I am more with you than the opposing arguments as much as I understand them. My current position is based on recent matches and not draws or titles so much. But predicting the future of such close things is anyone's guess.

The fans are going to cause Sun Yingsha depression lol.

He very much is for me, how many Europeans have beaten Fan Zhendong and Liang Jingkun and Harimoto in the last decade? I don't think Tomo has beaten Alexis before (I was wrong he actually eon their last match). But i understand why you don't think he is (he doesn't have quite the track record...

Well Tomo will show us something tomorrow. This is really hair splitting so even with Felix and Alexis.

In fact I would consider Lin Yun Ju more dangerous than Harimoto based on current form, he just needs a break.

Harimoto also had a draw based partly on seeding that avoided all the Chinese players. So it is less about dominance ans more about whether China can get a player into the #4 slot between now and WTTC. Unlikely but not impossible. And then the draw will be the biggest factor.

Truls won silver by beating everyone in front of him. Other than the Olympics, RSM mostly lost to Wang Hao. The point here is to let the person take the medal they won by playing on the day they played well and stop trying to reassign it based on what happened later.

As rpb23 said, WCQ was so good it didn't matter. But it doesn't mean there won't be other or better days.

Yeah, like Ryu didn't win in Athens, Wang Hao lost. Cut this out.

I was so sure Wang Yidi would win 3-0. I guess psychological scars are real.

Last year, there was Olympics so that made sense. But this year, we will have World Cup in April and then WTTC in May in Doha. Not the best planning if you ask me. But I am not on ITTF or WTT. https://worldtabletennis.com/eventInfo?eventId=3108

This is true, but irrelevant to the actual battle. The athlete's mindset is to play for victory on that day. Truls will do whatever he can to throw off the rhythm of WCQ. Truls is smart and WCQ even when on form can lose rhythm against things that throw off his timing. My money is on WCQ...

Isn't this too close to when the WTTC traditionally happens?

They can settle it head to head.

That was not my impression at all.

Yeah, but we have seen many top players do more dangerous things than get angry at bottles because they are frustrated with how they are playing. I just caution against people telling others how to get fired up unless they are their sports psychologists.

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Normal for any age. Federer and Serena broke racquets when they were champions. Nadal almost smashed hus as well. How a top level competitor manages his emotions without injuring anyone is not for armchair critics to judge, the psychologists working with them will do that. For them it is...

According to who? You?

Not really, Alexis felt he had no chance playing the style he usually does against other players which often involves leaving the table (probably because of the angles and power of WCQ) but i feel he has to learn from experience as this was the first time they have met. It took Truls time to...