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Good try by Germany in the doubles. But as exciting as they made it, the window has returned to the more likely scenario as unlikely as it may be.

If Germany can miraculously win the doubles, the bronze medal window has expanded significantly.

Truls beat Jorgic and Franziska in Champions League play in April. I remember him beating Pitchford before losing badly to WCQ at a tour event recently so it would be interesting to know what event you have in mind. Waldner had a lot of losses to unheralded players. We ask a lot when we want...

This is a bit too much against a WTTC medal team. I think a better path is Kaufmann winning and then SXN or Wan getting lucky against Lee Eunyhe. And then hoping Kaufmann can close it out.

The problem with that narrative is that just about no one else pushed FZD and WCQ except Truls and Sweden.with the notable exception of Harimoto (who lost to FZD, LYJ, Kallberg and Felix). But you forget conveniently that Omar had beaten Truls the last two times they played each other as well...

Seeding matters. The bronze medalist earned and defended his seeding. The silver medalist beat the #1 seed and then continued on the path of the number 1 seed to the final (there was no guaranteehe would do this). The 2nd and 4th seeds earned and defended their seeds. That Harimoto did not...

It is good form to put them on the podium even if the dumb policy is maintained.

Just a month or two ago, people were saying Moregardh had no future as a CNT challenger and his game was capped. Now we get the narrative that he was an unfortunate opponent for WCQ who had never lost a single game to him before the Olympics. Hindsight is 20-20 for sure.

It is possible that the treatment of reserve players has changed over time.

I get the feeling. But I keep reminding people that Lily, Batra and Akula are not chopped liver either, we have seen Lily play top players and they don't beat her as badly as Kaufmann did, same with Akula and Batra. We don't have a good sample size on Kaufmann but when I watched all her...

You mean the other countries when you speak of competition...

Their best bet is still 1%. Not worth it lol.

As it was written, so it shall be done lol.

I disagree that Miwa is easily the weakest. Matchups always matter and she is a pretty smart player, but her problem is lack of experience to place struggles in context. Given how seemingly useless the coach for Japan is, they should probably have made her father the women's team coach so that...

The gap has always been bigger in women's, while the recent Busan performance was interesting, doubles as a component of Teams and its forcing the best singles players to play each other has favored China even more than 5 singles matches or the old flexible doubles as third match format.

Blame the competition and the teams structure, China definitely fielded him in every match.

It can't be an accident that China is winning all.these game 5s...

Karlsson has beaten WCQ once and has also led 2-0 before a comeback. So he can play him for sure.

Karlsson.

He started the fifth game too badly to cause any tension.