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One last question ‐ does the club or someone in the club gain in reputation or funding somehow by having teams that perform oe participate in leagues? As an aside, there was a recent kerfuffle between an African top player and his national association because the player wanted to select his own...

These are opponents they know and balls they are familiar with. They are supposed to take those risks. Making it about Paris is wrong IMHO, this particular match is the focus, they can work on Paris 2024 against other less familiar opponents.

Yeah. To wait until 10‐9 to put it on your backhand and then do it against a ball that risky was just clearly him trying to take risk but he just didn't have it.

The match showed a lot of progress in Harimoto's game but it was a lot to ask of him to play all these matches and against an opponent who knows him so well and is just the better athlete. Harimoto still doesn't have the level of athletic aggression to take on such high risk high reward players...

Once it went to deuce you know Harimoto was done.

Hari-boy is gassed but to a lesser degree so is Togami. May the person whi can maintain his form at this level of intensity win lol.

Finally, a serve from the forehand corner lol! But will that last?

Harimoto misses his serves trying to invent serve patterns that Togami is not familiar with. The pressure is getting to him...

Does Hari-boy have a chance? He couldn't figure out how to get Togami to miss on his serve but once over many tries from 10-5 up. This is the problem with playing teammates who know you too well. They are familiar with your tricks so no easy points on serve and serve return.

The talentless hardworker and overachiever beats the talented genius and latent prodigy... the power of narratives...

Both. Sometimes it is to bait the opponent into underestimating how much backspin is on the bal and to keep it closer to the netl, and but that has the side effect of looking bad when thr opponent reads thr backspin on the ball and attacks it or the ball drifts long and then it is kist easier...

I prefer training to competing by a mile. But no one wants to train and most clubs I'm my current area are not built to facilitate training because they are part time. So I have to compromise and make deals and train practice partners in the hope that at some point someone sees the light. My...

France is pretty much announcing that it is a serious contender for the Olympics teams silver and bronze medals (depending on the draw of course) with Felix in singles and Lebrun/Gauzy in singles/doubles, even a more serious announcement than their men's teams silver medal in Busan given the...

Playing people at that level can be fun, they usually don't do anything serious against you once they detect your level in the warm up (or in the US based on rating) unless you magically compete or they enjoy shot-making and want to make you feel their level. They usually just beat you with a...

It will make you a better player...

What did you replace your TG2 with? Everything is still tacky just not extremely so...

Maybe but you are only hearing one side of the story, you aren't hearing what the club incentives are and what his alternatives and obligations are.

This point is very important. Competitive pressure and adapting to other environments males many good players play much worse. Coming up through the playing levels competitively makes me very resilient in match play and I don't just chuck matches to lower rated players who are not really at the...

I hear you. The problem is that unfortunately, other people need you to achieve things that you may not care about. Life is always about hierarchy ans exchange like that, you need to deal with other people as best you can. You could always buy a table and play at home if you just want to...

Japanese women crush the opposition in the absence of China. Like the ITTF tour days... Poor Sora... better luck next time. Hari-boy... showing his style has its benefits... he controlled Noshad better than the players who need table distance.