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So Gauzy is 29 or so, maybe 30. He was a WJTTC top prospect in 2011 . He was at the top of Europe un 2016/2017. How do you define much of his career?

I watched many of those matches. Honestly, Gauzy had the same experience many players had playing the Chinese.Koki Niwa, Lee Sang Su. The old elo system made it easier to rank and measure strength. Gauzy is nit a specially tragic figure in the era of Chinese domination. That the Lebruns have...

Let's apply your logic to other top European players like Anton Kallberg or Qiu Dang or Darko Jorgic or Anders Lind. If Gauzy was #1 or #2 in France, why would he be very different from them? What about Kiril? Again other than a few spectacular losses in recent months, what makes Gauzy's...

At a certain point, people will believe whatever they want to believe even when they have no evidence to explain why they believe it.

I haven't read the part of the thread where you reviewed most of Gauzy's career. Like I said, Gauzy was a junior when I started playing TT seriously so I am familiar with most of his career, including watching marches when he played the WJTTC. So I am still waiting to understand their matches...

Without a list of matches, this discussion is pretty much blowing hot air repeatedly. It is weird how the people who disagree are listing matches and the people who agree just keep relying on pushing their narrative without any obligation to substantiate it with some match results.

Again, as a career description, as opposed to the last one year or so (which even then requires selective memory), can you please substantiate your claim with said matches, or just agree that it is okay for people who disagree to also have a reasonable case?

You keep bringing up this parallel vs diagonal thing, but you are a good enough player to know that playing the parallel places demands on your anticipation while playing the diagonal reduces those demands. His footwork is not good enough to adjust to consistently playing on the parallel. I...

But this is his teammate Felix and in the last 1 year - as an apt career description, we need to hear it happening over his career not just recently to LJK or Felix or Alexis. For some reason losses to players like Milosz Redzminski ( an awesome player by the way) get forgotten because they...

So where is your list of the situations that he has supposedly had that I am not remembering because my memory is poor?

Jeon Jihee looks way past Zeio retirement...

Can you please list this long list of close calls that Gauzy has supposedly had throughout his career, especially against Chinese opposition?

You guys are making it sound like Gauzy losing these recent matches is about his playing level. Gauzy is a perennial top 20 player if you use ELO, let us not use new ITTF rankings to make bad arguments, let us not confuse the new rankings. He has lost a ot of matches to all kinds of players...

All I can say is grow up, Gauzy's motivations are not questionable in any moreal senae of the word. They are exactly what many top players deal with when deciding where to take their game. Nothing you have said is anything new or important. Truls beat Wang Chuqin and then won the silver medal...

Yes, #2 for me after Quadri Harimoto. But I am clearly biased lol.

If you have watched or hung around top players, you will know they are all capable of real brilliance and their consistency in bringing quality is what separates them at every level. Also one of the issues they continually have is to continue to figure out how much they can be conservative with...

They both played very well!

I think PongCommenter is closer to the truth than you are. Gauzy even when playing well has never really threatened better players. His win over Xu Xin was followed by the loss to Falck. His current play is partly a result of the arrival of the Lebruns as they have pushed up the overall level...

Poret snd Coton are not so patient. I don't see Gauzy playing in LA 2028 but crazier things have happened.

I won't lie to you, this was the biggest surprise of Sunday morning. I was already thinking to myself it is a shame, Quadri is playing so well and he is going to lose this and all of sudden he started winning points still playing well. And before game 5, I was like if Quadri wins this, this...