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They gave Alexis one game to show them that he had something new. After that, they deployed the usual low risk let him hang him himself tactics that have worked against him on the past and which worked pretty well once again. There is a general reason Lebrun plays well against Asians and fast...

Wang Yidi manages to lose XD, WD and WS all at one event. A notorious triple but a triple that it is better to have achieved than to never have been there at all. If Chen is retiring soon from CNT, a great way to go out.

Chen Yi as a power player is truly next level. Hopefully her height won't make it too hard to master the whole game.

https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024_19_OLYMPICS_XD.html Korea has been #2 on the Olympic list for a while now. This might have narrowed the gap had Team Japan won but it was already an uphill battle. And I agree that having thr male as the lefty likely is more potent but we...

Not sure who they were displacing as Korea were already #2 in the ITTF Olympic list already.

F. Lebrun. https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024_21_OLYMPICS_MS.html

The sweep of Hayata and Harimoto by Lim and Shin seems to have passed without comment.

If Hugo beats An tomorrow, he becomes the #4 seed at the Olympics and is guaranteed not to meet a Chinese player until the semis unless something changes that at the next event in China.

It will be interesting to see what happens if Cho Daesong gets the spot. Limits their singles options.

Is the spot a coaches' selection or a ranking race?

BTW, did anyone see the great match point between the two men's doubles teams from France?

Hashimoto gets a game off Hayata - impressive.

Hurricane Hirano comes back from 2-5 down in the 5th to win 11-7 after the change of ends. Well done!

Hirano just saved 4 or 5 match points against Xunyao Shi. They go into the decider!

But we (and they) know it was a choice. They could have actually gone to Taiyuan, but they weighed other things as well.

Don't all contenders look alike? ;)

Kallberg is interesting - she must have radically improved and still be radically improving because there is no galaxy in which even in February or maybe March, someone who can beat Diaz should lose to Kallberg.

This video is relevant. One of the points he makes (which can get missed depending on your focus) is that pros get lots of blades to test so they may get many blades of the same model and then pick and keep the ones they like the feeling of. This is a form of quality control so even if a blade...

Alexis plays better when his opponent is always giving him quality and speed because it keeps the potential for risk the same on both sides. Experienced players with variation will know not to do this and will give him some rope to hang himself - younger players (or even veteran players) who...

Lots of matches and results in Taiyuan that makw you wonder about the playing conditions...