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  1. 2021 Chinese National Games

    ML vs FZD live now, FZD won the first game, tied 5-5 in the second. FZD clearly plays better with a coach in his corner...
  2. 2021 Chinese National Games

    MT Final streamed live: https://youtu.be/dpJ3EXbgATI
  3. 2021 Chinese National Games

    Very surprised here as well. TTD used to be great for Chinese events. Didn't know what I was missing until the usual suspects stopped their coverage (zeio, Jesperstef, and so many others I cannot mention for fear of misspelling their names now etc.)
  4. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Bought my tickets for the WTTC in Houston. It is a dream of mine to attend one of these so I was all over it when they said the event was being held in America - made the Women's World Cup in 2016 and I have been looking at going to a WTTTC since it has more matches and in a subtle way more...
  5. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    The simplest way to understand what happened to FZD is to look at Ma Long's career before 2015, especially his record against Wang Hao. If Ma Long could repeatedly play like crap in the biggest matches of his career against Wang Hao, what makes it so far fetched for it to happen in the OG...
  6. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Happy you got to play him and enjoyed it. I think people who hang around Adam get a different appreciation of his playing style and attempt to popularize than people who see him on YouTube. Trust me he is playing to win but he wants to win with his style not with the way the textbooks think...
  7. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    No one forgot her, she got surpassed by *very strong* younger teammates. Actually in 2017, after her WTTC silver medal, someone on mytt said that Zhu Yuling had lost her chance that the ones below her are too strong. I was puzzled by this statement, but I think he turned out to be 100% correct...
  8. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    More important to have a lineup that wins, IMHO...
  9. MA LONG - THE GOATEST of all GOATS

    I do think you are analyzing the switch in the wrong direction. I think many more players would struggle if we went back to a 38mm ball. The spin element was much higher back then. It would also allow less athletic but more touch oriented players a place. It's no accident that as the ball has...
  10. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    Stef at mytt graciously corrected my statement (since the World Team Cup is a team competition) by posting this video which happened a few months later:
  11. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    Retire, Zeio Senpai! This is now ancient history.
  12. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    Oh, and Ma Long wins his 5th Olympic TT Gold medal. Fan Zhendong has a lot of work to do!
  13. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    The Olympics Teams event went perfectly according to seeding on the men's side.
  14. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    Timo Boll was the last guy to beat Ma Long in international team competition. Probably over a decade ago now. Says a lot.
  15. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    He would have beaten them anyways. He beats whoever is in front of him - that's the story and I am sticking to it.
  16. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    So what do we say about two-time Olympics singles gold medalist vs Olympics singles never-been-better-than-quarter-finalist?
  17. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    Is it just me or has one of the biggest benefit of covid19 for TT been the elimination of that disgusting table sweat wiping habit with the palm at the net?
  18. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    Well, Franziska has beaten FZD before (yeah I know it was a slump, but he has). And the real thing is that Dima has to win this match.
  19. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    The current match is the most obvious opportunity - Dima vs FZD. But I still think the match will be 3-0 China.
  20. Tokyo 2020 | 2020/7/24-8/9

    I thought this doubles match was "Venom 2: There Will Be Carnage" starring Ma Long and Xu Xin but they at least allowed Germany to have some hope in game 3 like game 1 before showing how Germany had no control whatsoever of what was happening. Blood all over the table.
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