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Will any of the Chinese women lose?

Lots of footwork drills starting with match serves and returns with the elbow in the right position.

Franziska and Jorgic. And lost to the big boss at the Olympics so no shame in that. But people looking at Cho will just say he lost in the Round of 64 to an American and end it with that.

You said the silent part out loud...

CNT player changes nationality but still treats Ito the same way...

Not sure what you mean by USATT low end is too high. It's not a perfectly linear relationship and there are definitely enough matches at the lower levels for ratings accuracy. It is the higher end where we don't see 2700 and 2800 players play each other often and that is true just about...

Nowhere in the world has enough high level players to make those ratings extremely precise except maybe French, Swedish and German league - they are generally accurate though. The thing is that you would have to use them in the ITTF tour. There was an ELO component of ITTF rankings for a while...

All well and good, but no unique reason for us as fans to accept school as an excuse. Like I said, there was a whole summer to prepare for the Olympics. A lot of current form is just the leftover of what was done for that.

Yeah, then the point of travelling to Macao is what exactly? Why not just focus on her studies then? I don't know all the constraints they face, but if she can travel to Macao, then we can't say she doesn't have the time to prepare as an excuse given that the requirement for attending is being...

Pretty much. There are players like that at every level and it takes a lot of work to convince them that playing the fastest and most powerful ball isn't always the best option because that has worked for them against mere mortals, it is just they are fighting others like them who can hit the...

I can't believe they haven't made a youtube short already of that 6-2 in the 5th point.

He said what every professional coach and player I have spoken about it to has said - they have, train with and prepare multiple rackets so it should not be a big deal, but if Wang was doing something different or felt differently about that particular racket, so be it.

Yeah, it was as if something about his blade went wrong and so many shots just went to the wrong place at the wrong time even in rallies where prior to that he had made great shots.

Moregardh is strong. Togami can try his best but his game isn't there yet. Even Kallberg is trying to be less robotic. Hopefully Togami will get there some day. Sora was still their best chance at an upset over a stronger player.

Hugo was in the same boat until this year, and LYJ is still in the same boat I believe so LJK is just hard to kill. The 6-2 point with the finishing backhand is going to go viral for sure.

Does Harimoto have a chance against LSD with that display by LSD vs Duda?

I think this oversimplifies things a bit. Amy's forehand has always been a bit flatter naturally, and more speed than spin oriented and while this isn't great, it has some strengths - it is difficult to rally with when the timing is on, and she has gotten better spinning with it, whether she...

It's clearly an area for growth, clearly something that improves the quality of the forehand topspin and also clearly something that they all are allergic to working on. Though to be fair, Lily has gone from terrible to serviceable.

In extra-fairness, he probably knocked out the one with the best chance of making an upset.

I was looking for this recently. @UpSideDownCarl, this is what I was looking for.