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Stop hating... your PhD is too high level. If you want to win, win don't lose. That is the bottom line.

When you don't spin the ball, you don't have a plan B when you lose control.

I think Shibaev is a much better talent than his career so far shows and is being held back by injuries and mental instability.

It is hard to appreciate how much of a waste of talent Shibaev is until you see him play a defender.

Well at least I get to see my anticipated matchup. Shibaev vs defense. I love watching Shibaev play defenders.

Watching Mizutani collapse in this manner is a bit depressing.

Yuki Hirano completes Harimoto's shame. Good to see Freitas back in form which I suspect will get better. Boll is still magic and Gauzy needs to do better.

True but the main point remains that it is hard to make predictions. I doubt anyone seriously believed Xu Xin would be this competitive in singles again.

It has been mentioned before (An Jaehyun) as the last example that Harimoto has a bad psychological mindset when playing lower rated high level juniors. This reinforces that.

On the women's side, also a good job. Maybe Hashimoto vs Kihara is a wash compared to Gu vs He but not a big deal either way.

On the men's side, I looked at all the matches that didn't get TV tables and the only one I could even quibble with was Franziska vs Kallberg. I would prefer to see them all but a job well done in picking matches for tables.

Lots of friendly fire in round 1. LYJ vs CCA is interesting.

Ah okay. I was going off the knee injury description. Knees are not trivially injured unless there is significant trauma.

I think Xiang Peng is the current top junior talent in China adjusted for age. Maybe the other candidate is Liu Yebo. And there were other factors.

That is very unfortunate as it is likely a major ligament.

You have made statements in the past about form determining whether someone makes the Chinese team vs results. My point is that people don't talk about your flaws when you mostly win points on balls to your forehand. When you lose points, people ask why and ask you to fix the stroke. People...

Mizuki Oikawa beat Timo Boll in the German League earlier this year. So I don't take it as anything against Xu Yingbin.

In the middle of this ERT video, there is a segment on Wang Manyu. Like I said, the results are important and you leave the rest to the coaches. https://youtu.be/QC866oJ2z2w

The one thing all Chinese players have in common is being the result of a Darwinian process that puts you through multiple levels of competition and trial. Form is at best an accidental result of that competition and is far less meaningful. As I remind people, no one is skeptical about the...

I generally consider these statements a form of racism. Why don't people talk about how bad the Chinese would have been if Wang Liqin and Kong Linghui didn't train in Europe? Nigeria has had generations of good table tennis players and Quadri as good as he is is not necessarily the best of...