Of course the level of opponents was different but he is not playing international stage for 10 years. So I do not compare him to XX but to other youngsters like Yan An or Liang Jingkun or Zhou Yu. Regarding tht he is the first one to pick besides top 4. I think it is the question who they want...
If you look at whole history you may change your mind. XX had one of the best ratio with foreigners he has been playing international stage since 2008, he had quite good start but at that time he was also loosing from time to time to foreigners but that time the competition in china was also...
For me the present form is one of the best factor, the other is international experience and success there. XX had many ups and downs last year. So I think Fang Bo is less risky.
I do not have time to do all stats, just can give you opponents they lost:
Fan Bo; 2015 - masato shiono, wang...
Here you go:
2016 lost (1 ) to Chuang
2015 lost (2 ) to anton kallberg, mattias karlsson
2014 lost (2 ) to gao ning, tang peng
2013 lost (8 ) to muramatsu (3 Times), joo saehyuk, ovtcharov, niwa, jeoung yungsik, mizutani
I think little bit more interested are last two years and here we go:
ML - 0
FZD - 0
FB - 3 (all 2015)
XX - 4 (3 in 2016)
ZJK - 8
Statistic never lies, ML and FZD are quite obvious, we have also LGY who qualified. I think next option is Fang Bo who had quite good last year and also this one in...
I know this stuff couse I have same problem. Mostly it concerns the lumbar spine. To tell you the truth it is impossible to heal it. Once you got problems with that you can instal blocker but that will affect your movement ability (other words you cannot play TT at this level) or you can do...
Time is important but I wouldn't do this way. Better idea is to provide more balls like in China league, so the time between points is limited, also there should be quicker serve execution not like Ma long did last time in Qatar Open, when he was taking a lot of time to prepare for serve. Also...
ASV Grünwettersbach – TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen 3:1
sensation, masataka took down both best players from second team in bundesliga. Also muramatsu lost to robles, wow
What an inteligency by Samsonov. After first set everybody fought it will be easy win for franziska, he got the power and the speed. But finally samsonov like always found his way and did not let franziska play. And who said samsonov is finished???
well which clipper wrb or classic? Anyway both of them are off blades. Rakza 7 is little simillar to T05, medium to hard and quite fast. If that setup is too slow for you then why I do not see you on international stage, or maybe you are playing that level ???
In Poland most of players from 1-2...
We can assume that players with 3 or more looses will not win this stage. So that means somebody from top 5 will take it. probably it will be ML or XX. Ma Long is save anyway, LGL will pick him, so no need for him to fight for his life. XX is in trouble LGL, said that so he is more concentrated...
That is true, but so far he had easier players I would say. he has to face FZD, ML, ZJK, LJK and other good players. Anyway I think we will know something the earliest after 8 matches. Remember that in the last phase LJK has beaten all best players but in the end he lost to poorer ones.
One we...