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Comes with age. Comes with age. You have good days and days when you just cannot do it.

Samsonov just played the kind of match that makes him want to retire. But old age is like that. Keep playing, Vladi!

It's a competition to be eaten alive by Ma Long.

I want to see vs Lin Gaoyuan. Well, Lin from 2012 in attitude. Then my ear plugs will get a workout.

Come on. She has won just about everything a player at her level should, including 2 WJTTCs, and she is the leader of the next generation of women behind Ning and Shiwen.

Zhu Yuling is going to be a World Champion. You know the peoppe who were born and trained that way. But I didn't believe she had the level.of offense in her game that she showed today.

My last comment on this: he is not just choing and no, he is not just choing to motivate himself. Yes, as long as it is allowed, we have to accept it if we play against it. Bur not complainingeill make more people believe it is okay. It was the complaining about Sharapova and Azarenka that...

Sometimes, I think FZD is allowed to let opponents win points in order to prevent the crowd from going silent.

Did you see how his opponent changed his behavior in response to Harimoto? Maybe you have played people who do this and have managed to ignore it. In any case, the kid can obviously play. But this noise making is a way of getting to his opponents. Pistej started doing things that against...

Then why so many people saying that we should respect his table tennis and ignore such unsportsmanlike conduct? Pistej is a pro. Very experienced pro. He is bothered by it. Maybe in part because he is losing, but he has lost to many other players without losing it.

What Pistej actually did was tell Harimoto to keep quiet because the kid was making noise as Pistej was about to serve. Again, this is something I have only seen one ump call Harimoto for and I don't know why. He grunts audibly when his opponent is about to serve. Does this only annoy people...

And you still think he isn't doing stuff that annoys his opponents? Just checking.

Anyone who watched Samsonov play Gionis today and wants Samsonov to retire needs to tell me what he is smoking...

It's not one size fits all. Some people ask what the player felt or the player sometimes does provide information, but it is usually less than a minute to talk to the player and the match play doesn't give a lot of room for self-awareness on the part of the player. What coaches tell players...

Coaching is not one size fits all. Many coaches do what their coaches did, some coaches look for ways to innovate. Since coaching is really about getting your player to play their best table tennis (which may or may not be a function of specific match strategy), the coach may or may not find...

It's obviously something you have to adapt to. I am just explaining that people know he is talented, they dislike the strategy he uses to get under the skin of his opponents since self-motivation is not the only thing in play. Once or twice a match or on big points is socially acceptable...

Agreed. If an adult choed like that, on basically every point, would Richie be asking us to look past his screaming?

Because his choing is part of the reason he plays as well as he does - he uses it to throw off opponents not used to it. I have played kids that choed like that before - it was a particularly bad experience losing to them.

With the great upset over Yu Meng Yu!

Yes. It would have been really interesting to know who voted for who to understand the role of money and relationships in directing votes.