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https://youtu.be/0AjpZwz7Z9c She confirmed my point that when Wang counterlooped Ning's opener at 3-3, 4-5, it pretty much killed Ning's resistance.

Zhang Jike spoke about the same problem when facing Ma Long when both were younger. He said his style was always to try to seize the initiative and that Ma Long was such a good counter player that he just ran up against a brick wall. Until he learned to try to control the play enough to vary...

Now I think about it, I think in both cases what happened was that FZD didn't think that Ma Long could push the ball short, so it violated his training muscle memory.

I think with all the rule changes and equipment changes, it will be hard for someone to learn all the tricks that Ma Long picked up playing in the era of tricksters like Ma Lin and Wang Hao. So in a sad way, you may be more right than we can appreciate.

I thought I was watching One Punch Man, where Saitama (Ma Long) leaves himself undefended and the villain, Carnage Cabuto (FZD) is scared to attack because he thinks One Punch Man couldn't possible leave himself that exposed and will kill him if he attacks.

Another chapter closed and FZD still hasn't acquired the versatility and experience to cope with Ma Long. FZD needs to take a page out of LJK's book maybe or maybe it is just true that LJK does have the most powerful backhand on the CNT.

The thing is that Fan knows what to do, he just beats everyone else so easily he doesn't practice doing it.

This is choking.

Can Ma Long really make the game so boring? Such amazing touch and control. Did FZD take a bathroom break? Probably trying to talk to Wang Hao... lol.

1 down, 3 to go.

There was a recent tournament, I think the WTTTC, where he was in the booth for 8 hours. Thankfully, you probably got better commentary in Sweden. That day, I was willing to ban Bobrow from commentating for the rest of his life. The next day, he managed to drown out the incredibly insightful...

That 3-3, 5-4 point was a soul-stealer.

The problem is that a lot of their quality is in serve and receive and once the Chinese got a gist of it and won the first game, they started taking a better balance of risk for reward and Fan is too consistent for you to just make him move. I watched their match against Ma Long and Xu Xin and...

https://www.ittf.com/2018/06/02/fan-zhendong-versus-ma-long/

I figured that we might be revisiting this topic over and over for the next two years (by the Olympics, it might be a foregone conclusion but who knows, Ma Long may have a version of the Lazarus pit or a hyperbaric chamber in his basement). So in honor of the highly anticipated battle scheduled...

He barely survived the big fatty, the little fatty is going to take him down. This is the one country where FZD beats ML.

FZD is not losing in front of his home crowd.

Ding Ning tells Saki Shibata: "Yesterday you played well, so I am playing you today. Time to make you wish you didn't play so well yesterday."

Here is the other great point of the match that no one is talking about, almost as impressive as the hand-switch point - brings back memories of Boll (or any other random two winged looper) vs Waldner, only that Boll is playing the role of Waldner...

Mima Ito, Saki Shibata and Hina Hayata? :D