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Kai emigrated as a junior too. Even though he was a good player before he came, a lot of his training happened in the US. Jennifer is well integrated into the US scene as well and I generally agree with your sentiments though I can see how others may disagree on this or that.

Kanak Jha is indian American. Yijun Feng was born in the USA as were Amy Wang and Lily Zhang. Amy I actually played once or twice a few years back. Kai and Jennifer are the ones born in China but we also had US national team members from Yugoslavia at one time. TT is that kind of sport here.

Well my apologies but you aren't talking about it and you are downplaying the impact and describing the game in germs that do not acknowledge the issues.

Beaten black and blue in an 11-7, 11-9, 14-12 game. Nah you sabi. How do you do more than put the ball back when you can't read the serve? This is getting silly.

Yes, I believe the players. When someone is hiding serves you can see it in how the players return their serves. If you know the structure of high level table tennis, players are trying to drop the ball short. When a player is pushing long repeatedly, he has given up on reading the serves.

If you look at Timo's history vs Yoshimura, Timo has always struggled with close matches vs Yoshimura. He lost the critical points today. The idea he played "poorly" is weird. Yoshimura has won a National Championship over Mizutani. Let us remember this . That umpires don't call ball...

Your opinion is yours. You can see in slow motion that the contact is often not visible to the returner and it Is worse for a lefty. It makes the sport look silly when someone is serving as cleanly as Boll is and is unable to return Yoshimura when he is serving behind the head and is forced to...

This is a huge win for Japan. Far bigger than even placing second would have given them.

He has to beat Harimoto here to make that possible.

The same way Boll usually endures it - fighting through the cheating. But Boll has always struggled against what Yoshimura does.

Will Boll survive this hidden service attack? Yoshimura serves everything behind his head.

You mean you have not heard the "Kanak is not a top 50 player " crowd repeatedly say that without focusing on the positives in his game? It saddens me that the US has a player that good and that they won't even stand up for him even if he is clearly overrated because of continental rating...

Kanak missed the training session with China because of league responsibilities in Europe. That explains it!

Yep. Korea won the group. Go USA! Kanak gives another middle finger to all the haters.

No. England is out in that scenario. Try again. If 3-1, it comes to game scores.

Yes. This reminds us why Mizutani is still the greatest Japanese TT player of all time (okay modern era and stuff like that).

He was up if Niwa won. One team gets its top player in earlier than the other.

I think the desire to have Hayata is leading us to construct too many narratives that keep her in the mix. Is there really a good reason not to field Hayata in Team World Cup if it is a realistic possibility? The conservative nature of the JNT selections is the consistent thread. Expectations...

Thanks and my point exactly. Selecting Sato for this World Teams shows how conservative the JNT is despite our desires.

The Same reason the JTTA would. Higher world ranking. The 4th spot is largely a bonus and giving it to someone who doesn't clearly merit it has implications.