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Each country has its own policy and it is not the same for all countries or even in a country, not necessarily the sameat all competition levels.

Those 2 are also juniors and I believe did well in Superleague. Kuai Man is on the rise for sure, but sometimes, the question is whether people know how you play well enough to deploy countermeasures. The one thing Sun Yingsha has in her favor is that she was Kuai Man's teammate in CSL.

That was from a different era with the 38mm ball, and with that ball and the quality of equipment back then, heavy spin was borderline unreturnable...

KM won 3-2 in Doha but lost 0-4 in Muscat. As long as everyone knows the rules or when the choices were made. XS is now ranked 18, while He Zhuojia is now ranked 30, so it is more likely this was decided well before Muscat if we are pointing at performance.

Because Xunyao Shi is obviously a strong player who for some reason (maybe key losses, maybe because she isn't a lefty) isn't getting opportunities.

I am not sure this will work anymore, so I think Kuai Man has a bigger chance than I realized. But Sun Yingsha is her CSL teammate so that must count for something as well. But Kuai Man lost to Chen Xingtong in Super League as well so this is definitely new territory.

Kuai Man vs Wang Manyu 2023 CSL

Anyone with a strong backhand can give Sun Yingsha problems if they play right. Wang Yidi qualifies. Lefties, Kuai Man would be a first for obvious reasons.

Wang Manyu no, but Chen Xingtong was clearly in her range. The thing is that Chen Xingtong figured out how to play her but didn't have the discipline to execute it consistently. I think if Sun Yingsha watched that match and plays more to the middle to limit the angles, she will do well.

To think that it was assumed that this style was completely dead after Mima Ito bear Zhu Yuling... would be interesting to see a ito-Zhu rematch.

I think if you watched the match, it was actually a competitive and high quality affair but Lin Shidong is more consistent at that level of play than Alexis is which led to confidence at critical moments which Alexis doesn't have in quite the same way. The biggest single problem that cost...

I don't think KM has a chance. SYS can run down those balls. Nah, WCQ is especially notorious for low trajectory topspin, his style works for him and not necessarily anyone else and the issue you are raising, while helped by using hard sponge H3 at max power, requires a style that most of the...

Looks like Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling got together and had a baby in Kuai Man...

Kuai Man is sneaky as hell in finding the wide forehand.

A guy does a cartwheel to loopkill a serve and you don't replay the point immediately? Seriously?

I think ML scarred FZD so much that no one can really appreciate FZD the way I think he should be appreciated. Harimoto, I put an asterisk next to because by 18-19, it was clear that his technical and ball reading forehand issues were making him susceptible to lower rated losses. But FZD was a...

Fan Zhendong.

So based on her current form, would you still have tried to get her not to take the injection at the Olympics?

I suspect if you presented video, you would find that Amayzde was right and you were wrong (the short balls would be high and attackable, or would actually be long balls that you read as short balls because of inexperience).

He wasn't lucky, he is almost the most physically talented player in the world and extremely creative. Probably the only player in Europe with a legitimate chance of beating Chinese players consistently at his best because his ball quality and defense need to be respected. If he learns how to...