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Congrats. I love redemption stories. A beautiful one from Liu Shiwen.

LSW goes Super Nova again.

Portugal vs Spain!

My point is that there are many cultures where they don't shake hands, no matter whether I should have added Slavic or other cultures to my description. Just keep that in mind. The Japanese usually just nod or bow to each other, for example.

We are on the same page. The handshake is treated in just about every sport I know the way it is treated in TT. The other thing is that many cultures don't shake hands when greeting unless they have absorbed Anglo Saxon culture. This also gets missed in these things. No need to enforce the...

AJH is amazing. It is interesting that he improved so much under the radar. I always thought he underachieved as a junior but he disappeared completely from my eye. Doing this now is interesting and amazing.

Not in any special way. The hand shakes are usually just as routine as the ones in TT sometimes worse.

How many sports do you get asked to shake hands with the guy who just beat you after a difficult loss? It is a difficult thing and the TT players do just as well as everyone else IMO.

Gauzy is being overpowered like fruitloop and others predicted.

I don't know whether she choked vs Zhu Yuling. That tournament was a big deal to Zhu Yuling

I get tired of arguing. Lefty - righty combination helps in table tennis. Two good players also help. But lefty righty helps with the movement as people can use their movement to complement each other. That is why Morizono and Hayata tend to play with Ito. Ito and Morizono.lost to the Germans...

Must the mixed doubles team be from the players in the Team Event?

I know it is usually one match against the Chinese that people use to remember what Ishikawa does but go back and watch the matches on the way here. They beat the German team that eliminated Ito and Morizono.

Not sure what you are trying to say. Yoshimura-Ishikawa are righty lefty and have been to 3 championship finals in a row now (2015, 2017, 2019). We can get on Ishikawa but she is a key part of that success.

Great show. Yoshimura might have earned himself a spot in the Olympics - not sure what the eligibility criteria for mixed doubles is.

Matchups are matchups, scores are not matchups. Ma Long's backhand is going to be under severe pressure like FZD's and LJK has the most stable backhand blocking game in CNT. Don't take Ma Long killing one CNT player to imply he will beat another. PS: Yoass said it best, everyone's game...

That first point was coaching genius or tactical adjustment from LJK. Just blocking! Come on LJK, stop attacking!

Clearly a combo. He is junking LJK and LJK isn't mentally there. But LJK has game 7 to adjust.

This is Mind-Effing of the highest order. Will he pull it out?

I like the fact that Parker has always felt Ma Long was the greatest player he had seen, even before Ma Long had won anything. This was around 2011.