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The source I have is Stefan Feth (via Larry Hodges). But who really knows...

Watching the U21 final, the new generation of Koreans and the talent of Lin Yun-Ju bodes well for TT competitiveness.

They have to get all the results and do the main draw pairing. Could be almost any seeded player at this point.

Stoyanov is a strong and underrated player who has a wide range(a win over Dima to his credit even though Stoyanov himself isn't consistently top level). It's very easy to look down on such players when you don't remember who they are and ZJK didn't show the injury game he has had recently. I...

Zhang Jike!!!!!!!!

Still going. Ma Te is stubborn. 2-2, 17-16, ZJK. 3-2 ZJK.

Zhang Jike lost his patience in game 3 and it comes back in doses. But the kill shots are amazing.

He is still ZJK the competitor. Stamina or no stamina.

Nah - Ricardo won.

I was very happy with ZJK's play. It will clearly get better but he didn't look as crappy as in his last match vs Apolonia. Watching him today vs an underrated Stoyanov was inspiring.

Didn't come any closer than that. Go Kanak!

Men, stop it!

No Wong Chun Ting?

What really impressed me watching the final is how spin based Ruifeng's style is and how much trouble he was able to give Morizono with it, even when he repeatedly fell asleep instead of closing out big leads. That match should have been a comfortable 4-0.

National team is sometimes thought of by some people as only the core players, but generally speaking, the top 6 - 12 players or so depending on country are national team players and maybe the top 3 - 5 are the core team. Morizono is top 6-12 players in Japan.

He is JNT, and he made the final here so that is not really zeio's point. Zeio's point is more about why he cannot get above those ahead of him in JNT. Even with surprising chiquita, once the opponent is always waiting for topspin they play faster as all they have to do is get to the ball and...

Yes. They needed Mizutani to get 2. They needed the certainty of Samsonov getting 1. That Mizutani couldn't deliver is what killed the strategy. There is no guarantee that Samsonov could beat Boll which is what you need to make a different strategy better.

Zeio posted on this already. According to an article, China is allowing (provincial) clubs to play in ITTF challenger tournaments as part of its strategy to adapt to the new ITTF rankings.

Han Ying for example has been known to beat players on the men's German national team because of her chopping variation. In the end, even if men win, it is not as simple as some think they have to use the right strategies as simply trying to hit through the blocks of the ladies is a death sentence

It depends on the continental quotas as well.