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Looks to me like someone ordered the CNT players to sharpen up. There is a lot of red all over the pairings.

The first chopper i ever met used Grass D Tecs.

The Acoustic inner carbon lol...

With their level, they don't need to peak to win those events. And training in TT is reduced in times of tournaments. Whether they play or not they will be fine. It is having to play peak events every time that causes issues.

If you read the post in the context of my prior posts in response to those who sat Harimoto has already superseded Hayata, including yourself, my point is that Odo's win and the asterisks all over the Chinese team at the Asian Champs place Harimoto's achievements in a context. She still has to...

So is Odo now at a level where Harimoto who beat Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi and surpassed Hayata should be losing to her? Youth is an interesting thing, that is the best I can say in Harimoto's defense, More so because playing your teammate takes away your coach and when you are younger, that is...

True but it comes with the asterisk of Wang Manyu"s absence and Sung Yingsha's injury/overplaying making her more vulnerable than usual. Such asterisks don't go into the history books but we as fans know them. The loss to Kim Kum Yong who also beat the whole CNT when she played them (and more...

Again, not so fast, doing better doesn't mean that there are no issues in the head to head. Ask Felix Lebrun if you doubt this

Not so fast. She won the first against KKY and lost going away. At best you might blame the ball helping KKY smashes. But dismissing KKY is not so easy.

Some of the serves are clearly hidden as well. Just saying...

.So look at Odo. Would you seriously argue that there is sufficient difference in talent between Odo, Hirano and Ito that justifies their equipment choices? Or is it more likely that they just evolved into doing what they do? In fact Odo recently opted for a more offensive playing style under...

She's not beating Miwa.

Let's remember that even amongst inverted rubbers, there was a time when the world and Olympic champion only used DHS or Butterfly or some combination of both. ESN has reduced the gap now, but it still exists a tiny bit. I personally would prefer a return to something like hardbat in order to...

He was probably still recovering from injury then. It seems that Kanak's days as Schwalbe Team #1 should be over now.

Thanks for this - Craig should pay you and patent this meme lol.

So a couple of things to remember - Falck has a tremendous backhand topspin and world class inverted serves. I have never seen him serve with the pips. To be fair, I also have never seen him topspin with inverted on the forehand either. But anyone who has watched him play will tell you that...

Yeah, no doubt we are all speculating here as to the impact of things like coaching changes. That said, he did beat Jorgic in the previous round and he managed to beat Harimoto in China in part as a result of his backhand play. With all these young players, a lot comes down to the ability and...

Your mind works in deviant ways lol.

Try the advanced search. It will ask you to show ignored content and when you click on that, it will show up. The basic search didn't give anything.

She beat Wang Yidi so she wanted it.