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He played pretty well in the final too. Ecen scared Hugo in games 2 and 3 though Hugo fought through it and somehow miraculously won game 2 and almost stole game 3 as well but give it back. He made Hugo play amazing shots repeatedly to win and that is all you can ask.

I have loved D80 and even when I try other stuff, I keep coming back to it.

The final was a bit more interesting that I expected, even if of course you were entirely right. And the second seed didn't get there, it was the person who beat him who did.

Oikawa playing very well. Will be interesting if he can keep this level in Japan.

If she plays at the level she played vs Hayata, I have no doubt in the mind. It's also inappropriate in my view to confuse a level with an actual rating. A level is a quality of play. You can achieve a quality of play and never have the ranking. You can also achieve a ranking while the...

More complete, I don't know, Batra has the height problem but she serves, twiddles and uses the pips at a higher level (though the pip usage level is debatable) and arguably counterloops at a higher level as well, the issue is that Sreeja has that raw opening power and ability to take balls out...

In the last two games, Sreeja got much closer to the level that gave Hayata problems. If she could play consistently at that level she would be top 10. It is easy to forget she also has a win over Wang Yidi.

So now we know why Miu Hirano is not on tour... 12-10, 12-10, 11-9 ...

Nah, Sreeja took so much risk that if she can play like that consistently, she will be top 10 for sure.

Unfortunate, these are top 50 quality players sidelined because of sanctions against Russia. They were juniors a few years ago and relatively young and should have been the generation to replace Shibaev and Skachkov. It's a pity how war ruins everything.

Yeah that was really weird. Here I was thinking Sreeja had a poor draw but then saw Hayata had a poor result lol.

I spent more money on blades and I have concluded that the modern Korbel is the Harimoto ALC or SALC. The blade feels extremely slow and controlled to me compared to what I usually play with (Viscaria SALC) LOL. I still have to do more with it but I am comfortable recommending it to a player...

Pros train a lot and swap rubbers a lot and sometimes use extra additives a lot as well so comparing their needs to ours can be a bit misleading when we might change rubbers every 3- 6 months and not reglue rubbers in between or add other moisture containing performance enhancing chemicals. So...

Matches are on now... still qualifiers but interesting to see who made it and who didnt.

The highlights are soooo good....

They just had the regional qualifiers gor the African Championships. Quadri doesn't seem to be playing. Wonder what's going on there....

Life is not a deterministic machine, he is the favorite but in sports, anything can happen. Remember that Koki Niwa lost to Kai Zhang. Sharath Kamal Achanta lost to Ojo Onaolapo. Liang Jingkun lost to Lilian.

In support of this argument, I heard a superstar uses rubbers thicker than those commercially available after consultation with his brand. You can get the sponge hardness commercially but his rubber thickness you can't. Makes you think lol.

How many and which Darko marches are you using? He served forehand less so he got more calls on his backhand serve, but his forehand serves has issues. We generally agree so we are discussing small things. Toss issues on backhand serves are possible but hiding without beinf obvious is harder...

Aruna got faulted for his forehand serves. It was so bad he served exclusively backhsnd against Harimoto. He beat Zhou Qihao mostly serving backhand so it wasn't like his forehand serves were required. But Quadri has always had major toss issues on his forehand serves, so I wasn't surprised...