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Tomokazu Harimoto is like this new Alfa Zero Google's chess AI neural network engine ... in the matches against traditional engines this "chess entity" dismantles the opposite side in a way that it's pieces are still there, but somehow can not engage into the real action ... I dare to say both...

Yeah ... she's always been a bridesmaid to the Chinese girls - unfortunately. A really nice and good looking one I must say : ) But one thing for her is to fight for the spot in the Olympic team and the other is her retirement ... I mean you really need to have a word with your girl Kasumi -...

Yeah ... ; ) and what's even more mysterious, it was the Japanese guy who threw Marty Reisman and the likes off the pedestal ... straaange world we live in ... I think the key sentence in your comment is: "It is normal" : ) And ... who's playing finals tomorrow btw? :)

The fact that you should challenge any preconceptions you are faced with. does not mean that they are "wrong" automatically. The China vs RotW rivalry has a long historical grounds, so deep that it basically infiltrated the notion of table tennis. Ask anyone (a layman) what nation is the best in...

Oh well the Goliaths loose sometimes too ... don't they ... ;)

Maybe because Japan (with all due respect) hasn't been a Goliath for the past decades ...

Guys you try to see more than there's to it. The China vs the Rest of the World rivalry has a long tradition - in a positive way. Don't CNT players perceive World Tour events sort of the same way, like "loosing to other CNT member is ok, but against the foreigner is not so much"? We are talking...

RidTheKid PLEASE where have you been for the last 20 years ... China is the Goliath of the sport and the "rest of the world" is David - there was not a slightest hint about "nationality" in the comments you are referring to. Let's just drop this hypersensitivity ...

Interesting comment about Xu Xin. Regarding Timo ... if he was on the CNT he would now have been Timo, would he ... not the Timo we know today.

Yeah, ML and others were quite a wall for him for the past years. No blaming (or just teasing) LGL here, but it strikes me how confident LGY is now, specially against those big heavyweights of the CNT.

Is it the natural course of things or was it Liu Guoliang's absence that made LIN Gaoyuan so strong ... ;) I always had the impression, he never had too much faith in that boy.

So, as far as I can decode the Portuguese, he started playing Bundesliga 2014 being about 18 years old. So Europe must have been quite influential on his game for sure, but of course I'm not trying to steal Hugo from Brasil.

Well, to some extend he is definitely a "product" of the European table tennis ... Probably not the best choice of words, but you know what I mean. I checked wiki, but it doesn't say too much about the course of his career.

And technically speaking Hugo is not European ... : /

Zeio's propaganda ... ;-p

I think, I've read somewhere that it is noticeably different than the normal ALC and the guy mentioned the thickness (might have been in a positive way - don't remember) ... but I think it is not as thin as i.e. the Innerforce layer ZLF, and I found that bade quite nice. To slow for my liking...

You mean literally "on the blade", it's gonna be hard man ... just hard ... ; ) Sorry for being sarcastic. It's just this "I request" statement throw me off ... I hereby request ... : )

True it is complex ... well if the case was for the "off the bouncer", my vote goes to Mima ... be it men or women, seriously : )

I mean all your post, just wanted to save some space : ) Thanks for the reply, sorry if I wont be able to address all the topics probably. Yeah, writing that the stats would always be incomplete in some sense, maybe I took too much of a "philosophical" approach here. In practice those stats...

Maybe you meant it the other way TTMonster, but I find this idea quite upsetting to be honest with you : ) I mean if I was a total layman, didn't play the game and barely watch it, it might be true. But if I'm being involved, practice once or twice a week and watch most of the tournaments on a...