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I was hoping to give him time to volunteer his opinion unsolicited since this is the weekend. We will hopefully also get to see Jang vs FZD, though I suspect that Lim may get the call for that matchup.

The shakehand restriction was not a restriction, nor is the small racket - those restrictions I have seen before and they drop your level by at most 300 points, I don't practice penhold or Seemiller and I can play decent with either. The real restrictions were all the ones that Adam won - using...

It's a bit sad that he is forced to retire so early. Hoping something can miraculously happen for him medically in the next few months, but if not, best of luck and thanks for a lot of thrilling matches. When I think of ninja table tennis, he is one of the first players that comes to mind.

One point to make - Lim and Jang were Vice WTTC Champions in MD in 2021 *and* 2023. They are not an ordinary doubles team. I struggle to remember the last time Harimoto actually played doubles with Togami as his partner. Add the lack of lefties and it just isn't even a serious conversation...

Results are basically decided unless some miracle results happen. This was the only really meaningful match in the event.

There are rules around building the teams that limit the combinations of players you can pair together. But they only had two mixed doubles combinations anyways and Sora, who is Miwa's true doubles partner, prioritized the WJTTC. For the most part, Japan pretty much brought the stars that...

It was clear that Japanese MD was trash, Sweden exposed that. I am surprised that Hayata especially could not see the urgency.

That they don't have a high level lefty like Uda or Matsushima for this format is just a function of things not completely their fault. That said, the games with Jang Woojin and Harimoto have been close recently and coin flips are coin flips. Some people will never change their minds, even as...

The funny thing about Japan is that I think their men will lose 0-3 but even if they won, there is no guarantee guarantee their women will close, which is really sad.

Japan could not have chosen this order.

It felt like he was ready to protest even before the serve was completed.

As zeio has pointed out, Gauzy has made this point repeatedly on social media. But I think people are wasting their time on this one until we have AI making these calls.

That's one benefit to the number of matches, people need to rest so that is their incentive to rotate players wisely. Really looking forward to Korea vs Japan in a few hours, it is probably the only really meaningful match of the whole event lol.

I think she was a ZJK SZLC user before switching to the Viscaria SALC. She probably has a mild identity crisis or is promoting the desires of her sponsors in interviews.

That's not the right analogy, the right analogy is that this spin thing doesn't bother any of my opponents, I need to make the ball go faster.

Are Togami and Harimoto so good vs chop that Slovakia didn't even bother trying Wang lol?

Japan gave Korea hope with that men's doubles performance vs Sweden - Korea will be fielding their A-team tomorrow for sure, they have already given Japan all the bulletin board material they need if Japan needs any.

They arguably should play all the matches and let some teams win 15-0 lol.

Pips won't really solve the problem unless you don't like to topspin in general. Backswing is critical on openups, people who don't introduce wrist flexion into their backhand tend to struggle with it, even with pips. But maybe the ball might be more disturbing. Degu is a spinnier pip, the...

I think this is innovation partly inspired by the Indian League which may have predecessors I am unaware of (since the Indian league has had this format for years apart from the Golden Game, I think it is fair to give them the credit). I think it might actually become an Olympic event if there...