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Men... if she could figure out how not to smash *sometimes* on forehand but her backhand was much more consistent. Fun match.

Since the top 5 seeds are Chinese and the 6th would be from Taiwan, he would still be seeded top 4 at the Olympics for example and likely get to play a top seed in QF at the WTTC (in either spot 5 or spot 7) so no difference there. I suspect that removing 500 points is not entirely fair to him...

Yeah but there is clearly something going on there, whether as training partner, he is currently her coach. It would be interesting to know more about him.

I get the fact that Felix isn't Asian helps with continental points but in terms of recent consistency in getting to Chinese opposition or losing only to quality opponents, Felix is also better. While he has gotten better this year, Harimoto has R64 losses in the last 12 months. Felix's lowest...

They are playing way too much. Has been covered elsewhere, but this year, there are too many events.

You are the office so you can label as you please. The point was that who has a better record than Harimoto, especially vs the Chinese, during the period you used to argue that Harimoto was a failure. As turbozed and Tony TT pointed out, while it is a good sign that Felix is more stable in his...

He has had his failures for sure (losing in the first round to Dyjas in Houston is the biggest one and then to Jorgic and An Jaehyun in the round of 16 at the Olympics in Japan and the WTTC in 2019), but the only real competition he has are LYJ, Dima, Boll and Calderano and if you just look at...

Felix Lebrun deserves the title for a year now. But Harimoto has been the best player outside the Chinese for the last 5 years even while he has disappointed quite a few times. That's juat backed up by statistics.

Unless you have it on video, it is hard to be objective, memory tells self-serving stories. I felt equally effed in state champs but again, I didn't record it, I might just be remembering his nets and forgetting mine. But yeah FZD is a hard luck man. Alexis edge on match point and this - sux!

You are over thinking this, he won, that is all that matters. And no, you did not count wrong.

I love the honesty of WCT and DHK - paraphrasing roughly, WCQ and SYS are at a super level so we learn a lot from them.

A part of me wants Batra to beat Hayata and Chen Meng to beat Harimoto so we can see Batra-Meng with a ticket to the Olympics on the line for Meng. This would be a great match. TT Divinity, please make it happen... ok fine, I should stop being so selfish and heartless to all those Japanese fans...

He is just pointing out that the players are playing way too many events vs what they would do optimally to play their best.

Hari-boy just seemed like a slow old man. Felix Flash is really fast.

Harimoto going to lose to Europe lol!

Why almost? I bring up the example of Kao for a reason but it is not the only one - Franziska also lost to Kao earlier in the year before Busan, but it is not just about losing but how you lose. You can look at his history of losses and you will see the number of losses to players that one...

No, Patrick did not just lose to a good player, lost to a player who he should be reliably better than under circumstances where Germany needed a win and didn't bring his very best game. This happens too often. Anyone can play well when you are not expected to win and the stakes are relatively...

Is it really? Does Ovtcharov lose to players who are clearly worse than him? And if/when he does, does he lose without a close match?

You seem to forget trivially all the things that Dima has done under pressure and all the losing that Franziska has done under similar pressures. Dima may not be the same player but he thrives under pressure and brings out his very best performance when the stakes are high. Again, why did...

Dima is the higher ranked player and more reliable at similar events (though if we follow the trends of our small sample, he is due for a quarterfinal spot with no medal in singles and a bronze medal in Teams).