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Falck and Karlsson have been one of the top doubles teams in the World for a long time, and they have a World Championship to show it, beating just about all the top pairs in the world at the rime to claim it. Saying that two good singles players should combine in doubles to match their singles...

The logic is nice coneptually but it is not right, it's just pretty logic. How would a pair like Kristian Karlsson and Mattias Falck be world champions in 2021 based on this logic? Because all the other higher ranked pairs they beat didn't combine well? It's worth studying the amount of luck...

I think her best medal chance for a gold was XD, as delusional as it might be. Singles and Teams were even more delusional. But PRK reminded us that you can't assume your seeding contains all the relevant information.

We are not in agreement. In a competition between world ranking and titles which show a history of being the second best mixed doubles team in the world, vs. a single match vs a lower rated opponent of equal and possibly superior strength, I will take the larger dataset. You can trust your...

I was wondering what you were going on about, then I looked at the draw and noticed that PRK is still in Hayata's path in WS, lol. This might get good. But I trust Hayata on this one. She is only pretending to be dumb for the cameras...

You mean the Hong Kong team that was put on notice by the prior results and the accumulated videotape and still lost, only with a better score? Is it a case of the North Korean team having a bad seeding or Hayata and Harimoto playing poorly? Despite the obvious answer to that question, are you...

They aren't hidden though, definitely not at contact. There might be other issues.

Yeah, she just didn't have the right strategy at all. And Batra isn't chopped liver on her inverted side either and the twiddling to punch block made it hard for Pavade to develop a rhythm. Batra needs to face sone experienced player like Hirano, if she gets a regular inverted looper next, she...

Provide the same picture for Felix since you are supposedly being objective.

Britt Eerland continues her Olympics in fine fashion, beating a strong Matelova 11-9 in the 7th.

Nah, Dima is the one that is supposedly the fraud.

It's easy to forget that part of the reason that Kiril's ranking is not so high is that his country is in Asia for ITTF events. It's not only East Asians that have depressed rankings because of playing in Asia.

Kiril has been threatening this level all year. A win here would be a good certification of it.

I think people would beg to differ, Felix drops his head close to his paddle on just about every serve, it is hard to tell the difference between when he is hiding and when he is not. Not trying to defend illegal serves in general, but saying that trying to make a particular player the villain...

Maybe because Felix isn't that much better?

Insane, they flew the whole Chinese national team out here lol.

It looked obviously like a DHS blade of some sort and a blue sponged rubber of some sort as well, likely DHS. And a red sponged rubber of some sort on backhand, likely Butterfly.

Amazing point! 2-1, 5-1...

Even with his powerful forehand, he is showing that he has major timing limitations against spin variation, especially heavy spin.

It's a doubles forehand, but in singles, you still gotta play the next ball.