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Looking like this will come down to Ionescu and Movileanu vs Lebrun and Lebrun or something like that.

I like Bernie but it will make more sense if France goes through to the next round. I guess Romania is slightly hurt by not having Eduardo around.

I guess Felix didn't want to carry this form to WJTTC.

One of my favorite players to watch, powerful on both sides but especially his backhand.

The slower the blade, the more if forces you to spin. I would actually go for the Glayzer 09c and 05 even though you won't use it for long because it will help you develop looping technique and discourage flat hitting because if you don't spin, you can't win.

Sounds like the regulations made her play for some reason so she protested with the quality of her play.

This is clearly weird, someone needs to explain this, but TT is a broke sport.

Iike the part about guiding a lot. You do your shot, see what happens to the ball, and then use that as feedback to figure out how to adjust the next time. Over time, you should get to a good shot with a decent placement. Too long, close and swing more over the ball. Into the net, make...

Mengel has played intergalactic table tennis in these feeders - a couple of samples - I will leave the match and celebration at the end of Dusseldorf as homework, lol:

Table tennis is a sport you play more than you intellectualize, it is best to experiment to learn these things if possible. If not, don't stress over it, try things until something works, it is the pressure of the point that wreaks havoc on your patience to try things out, but once you let that...

Very fast hands. Sleight of hand is amazing.

To be fair to myself, the guy posted many points he won against a 2250 player. If we took those points as being representative and the rating as given, that makes him higher than 2250. 2250 is not a joke rating, it is dominant rating of players in divisions 2 and 3 of the NA Teams, to give one...

Continental championships are not the same as the world championships, everyone has a different priority there. So saying that a player didnt play continental events doesn't mean much. But whatever the reason Felix will be fine. Whether he decided to come back to play WJTTC is entirely up to him.

It is good that I am watching so much TT now that my memories are beginning to blur.

He played this tournament last year for sure. But you could ask the same question about Lin Shidong who won it last year. Yes, but WJTTC is a title that many players want when they haven't won it. Kuai Man is here for example I am confident Felix would be here if the Mixed World Cup wasn't...

Japan just completed a tough comeback vs Korea. Their #3 Yoshiyama fought hard in a very close match, and his win gave his teammates who had lost their previous matches to go down 0-2 the desire to finish and come back. Matsushima won a close match over Oh 3-2, and Hagarira (I am probably...

He is probably playing the Mixed Team World Cup event that immediately follows this one and prioritized that over this. I did a double take when I didn't see him initially, his teammates played really well against China and must have felt the loss of their ace.

Nah, he is one of the few that have another December event and they may have prioritized the Mixed World Cup event over this for his development. Sora and Lin are not going to that event as far as I know.

Probably my favorite event every year. Great to see what the future holds in TT.