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Inability to adapt is part of choking, but there were some loss of form dynamics in play. There were quite a few forehands in that match that Ma Long hit without his lower body.

The Legend of Lin the Choker has been written into stone with this one.

Immediately his form comes back, Lin's quality returns as well.

What he is doing on touch is juat incredible.

You can do that on adrenaline when there is something to play for. The problem is likely in his left knee or there abouts. So he uses the backhand serve to reduce it but will go for what is available. Lin has the right strategy of playing to the middle but he isn't always hitting his spot. I...

Ms Long clearly injured, the commentators can't even tell those are injured player shots. Ma Long has lost his form and is just swinging and trying stuff to compensate for some injury that he obviously will not discuss.

I kinda nailed it lol. Epic final.

Sun Yingsha vs Wang Manyu is more interesting, that's an Olympic Gold preview. Who cares about these World Cup finalist has-beens? :P.

As an example, how much doubt was there that a 16/17 year old performing at the level of Fan Zhendong in 2013 would at some point be the greatest player of all time? Probably not much from people who are willing to say that Lin Shidong is going to be in the conversation...

A quote attributed to many people, from the Nobel prize-winning Quantum physicist Niels Bohr to legendary baseball player (and philosopher) Yogi Berra states: "It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."...

Seriously? The guy who was losing to FZD when they were juniors and who lost to 3 different players at the WJTTC? Who had to work his way onto the top team with years of religious training and the retirement of ZJK and who earned the nickname "hardest worker" from LGY? No, his "talent", if...

Today's loss by WCQ at the World Cup kind of closed the WCQ entry into this for me, others may still enjoy it. Any streak or period he wants, he has to start afresh. Maybe 2024 Olympics and 2025 WTTC.

The spin probably just wasn't there. Sometimes, under tension you are looking for spin but maybe ML just didn't contact the ball so great. It's not like many people not named Hugo are flicking WCQ's serves so he probably doesn't feel that a lot in matches.

I guess you forget he lost to Lee Sang Su just this year.

TT is in crisis and is funded in many countries by governments that will only pay for athletes with a serious chance of winning medals. Spreading around the medals to more athletes keeps more countries interested in investing in the sport.

He has always been a nervous guy of sorts but has always performed well despite the pressure. Definitely better than the others, Lin and Liang visibly tremble even more. The other point worth noting is that they kept Ma Long from coming to Houston so that Fan could eon his first WTTC. He was...

He had a crisis in 2019. He talked about it quite a bit.

One of the things that I have found fascinating and not so much discussed is the influence of Wang Hao on Ma Long's game on general. Maybe I am completely speculating, but I feel that Ma Long has played with more balance and even in losses more confidence than before. Ma Long lost more but he...

Ma Long... wow.

How Omar makes this list is completely beyond me and how no CNT players are on this list given the criteria shows a bias somewhere, just not exactly sure why it is so transparent. Kallberg is clearly a machine, but he is a very special kind of machine with amazing speed, which for me is special...