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Because your strength is habitually your strength, even if your opponent is stronger at it.

All that said, massively impressive performance by Hari-boy so far.

I feel that with a different draw, France would have had a good chance at silver and were the second best team in the event. That's part or the reason I feel Japan has no real chance.

Not at all, it is in some ways a reminder of the fact that Gauzy has been good and leading France for a long time and from a young age.

The movie will be far better than the reality lol.

Germany will have to get the ABC team for her to have a good chance of playing Shin Yubin. That is what we should be hoping for and even then, she would still have to beat Lee Eunhye, which should be a given with the level displayed so far, but no certainty in TT as this tournament has revealed...

Oh she is here to stay in terms of the German team. She also won bronze at the WJTTC last year if I remember correctly. But the level she is showing now is top 10 maybe top 5 and that can be a flash that disappears for a true top 15/top 20 player.

Did you really have to answer his ridiculous position? When does getting a medal for your country become selfish because your country can't use you in the team event for which your country would still be a medal favorite without you anyways? She already proved that she is still better than the...

The real question is whether she can maintain this level after the Olympics. One tournament magic is real even if we think otherwise.

Your creativity in finding ways to put down Hayata is astonishing.

Miwa is going to win this, SXN is too slow in general at her current age and Miwa will adapt.

Yeah. I didn't expect this but I don't think people were giving her enough credit.

Nothing to do with pressure. Watch the Kaufmann matches and the results. Thr girl beat lily 3-0, Batra 3-1, Akula 3-0. All high level opponents. Most games under the score of 6. I give Japan credit but it was clear that if Kaufmann was Asian, the hype would have been off the charts. But...

He will only get Truls if China changes its order and I cannot see why it would be worth it to do so since Sweden has a strong doubles team.

I don't know the specifics but pretty sure the first two matches will be Wan/Shan vs Hayata/Hirano and Kaufmann vs Harimoto. After that, depends on nuances.

Kaufman is legit, yhat girl knows how to redirect the ball with power on serve return, third balls and rallies, it will be interesting to see what Japan comes up with.

You mean LYJ and Kallberg. It's all relative, but I agree. While Kallberg played well, Harimoto pushed long too many short but attackable balls IMHO and was caught blocking rather than countering a bit too often as well, possibly a fitness/health issue, but definitely a regression to bad safe...

In theory, Togami shoulders the biggest blame given the ranking difference between him and Karlsson but we also know Karlsson is underrated because he worked more on XD and MD and didn't really care about his singles ranking for Olympics since he wasn't playing. But my point is that Japan had a...

There is also a lovely pattern with Fan getting double gold, Truls getting double silver and Felix getting double bronze. The future is hard to predict but this makes sense to me.

Japan. France will have the crowd and Felix will get 2. Alexis usually buries Togami. A lot will hinge on the doubles but even there.i think France is better. Togami has shown he is too stubborn to rethink his game.