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Fraser not tracking the score I think... it was 6-5 He and it became 6-6... the point was awarded correctly...

No one else can see what you saw, but throughout the match, he had been serving sidespin or light side back, so this time, he served a heavier side back twice and you put it in the net.

The serve order is determined by coin toss at the start of the match

I am not sure why @Tony's Table Tennis was so down on his chances, to me anyone who could even challenge Alexis Lebrun after the imperious form he showed at Euros and in his recent matches at Montpellier is in reasonably strong form.

The problem is the time such great competitive tussles take. Since this was the final game, maybe it was somewhat inevitable. But while the struggle is definitely far more dramatic than the golden point, the golden point also has an air of finality that has its own drama.

This kind of match will force a golden point rule at some point in table tennis. I think at 12-12, we should just do golden point and end this.

And the beat goes on...

Diaz hides the ball so much when she serves yet i can't remember an umpire calling it.

He wasn't going to change the match result. But he and his player would learn something from it. I doubt he would do it again, especially if his player was competitive, but if there was a time to do it, this was it. That aside, we can wait for the imaginary Hawkeye system that will make all...

The coach is doing the right thing - Odo's serves are very dodgy, so why is the umpire calling a dodgy serve on Pavade?

I think LYJ has better chance than CIC. That's my honest opinion.

Yeah, I am too slow to get it. Thanks for your patience.

The narrow is based on the view that she was 17th in the WTT tour in-year rankings, and she needed points to get to 16. Not on the match itself, where you rightly describe her as being "hammered".

I am not telling you how to feel about someone, I am saying that by traditional accounts of what counts as TT achievement in China, WCQ has not achieved anything, and that his coming down from a high is not the same as having won a grand slam title and then losing after because of debilitating...

The guy is simply a reincarnation of a banned older account that said some of the same ridiculous things. Unfortunately, moderation is not very proactive, this kind of stuff should have been taken care of a long time ago.

I know people who speak to Fan Zhendong. Let's just say you have no clue what you are taking about and the amount self-torture he puts himself through.

Winning a grand slam is a big deal in tennis, especially after multiple failures at the French. And Wang said the same in table tennis?

Thiem succumbed to a wrist injury, similar to Del Potro but I don't want to get into that. Major in tennis is very different from TT. I find the analogy wrong, but for me the main thing is that Wang has not won anything of substance, even the far more accomplished Fan Zhendong felt that way...

When did he win the World Cup? Those things are not considered major trophies in China. Only the WTTC and the Olympics and to a lesser degree, the World Cup. Even after Wang Manyu won the WTTC in 2021, Xiao Zhan said "It has been done before", as if to tell her that there is still work to do...

Yeah, this is also possibly a case where the table behaves a bit differently from what Wang is used to for containing spin. Usually China preps for such things, but maybe there was a gap in doing so for this event.