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Yes, but a leg cramp is not an injury lol, so I feel for Doo. Bergand should lose pretty quickly and the question becomes whether Lee Ho Ching can loop chop and variation or not...

So the question of the moment - how good is Lee Ho Ching vs chop?

After the match reverses, Kallberg gets injured somehow at 2-2, 6-4. EDIT: But she perseveres and wins at deuce and gives her team a chance.

Doo Hoi Kem taking care of Kallberg - Bergand isn't strong enough to win in singles so DHK would practically close out the match with a win here.

C. Kallberg is really becoming a power house for Sweden, I would never have believed it if you told me that HK wouldn't win that doubles match easily. HK only managed to win the 3rd game at 9 and still have to win two more to restore normalcy.

Why? Isn't the disruptor and the finisher a classic doubles pairing?

They can but it doesn't change anything and it ruins the team dynamics. It will be interesting to see whether they can develop another good doubles combination to free her up because Shin is also their best doubles player.

Yeah, it is very hard for them to get anything out of singles vs China, so they have to play their best doubles teams and hope to get lucky in at least one singles match. But as far as I remember, this has always been the Korean team in Teams formats, sometimes they had Choi in the JJH slot or...

Germany uses QD and TB in doubles and Dima in singles - given they had been prepping a doubles team of PF and DO with QD in singles for a long time, it says something about how they felt about the pecking order and that they don't trust ITTF rankings unfortunately.

You nailed it!

I somewhat disagree, Thailand has always been a dangerous team and YJN is not going to beat Harimoto. France really lost the match in the doubles, Pavade just had an Olympics to forget. But we both agree that any struggle that Japan has with any team other than China and maybe Korea and Taipei...

I like the patriotism but it would be very uninteresting. Batra easily gets two wins and I am not sure any of the US girls can beat Akula. I don't see anything preventing an Indian semi unless XSN and either Yan or Kauffman enter phone booths and come out with superpowers.

Nah, India picked the best team, they used Archana Girish to make their doubles team solid with strong inverted forehands while she isn't a slouch in double inverted singles either - Ayhika only makes sense if Surtitha was the India number 2. India looks like they have a good path to SF...

She did beat someone really good, not just a close game, in qualifying somewhere which is where I remember her improvement. But in TT, winning in your own singles isn't everything, and different players can perform somewhat better/worse under different competition conditions like teams/leagues...

He plays with inverted on the backhand - he can continue to evolve to play all strokes and distances if he wants to, while Mima because of her pips and height is limited to close to the table play. Acting like the way a player plays today is the only way he will play forever is contrary to just...

Thankfully, he beat Wang Chuqin before they realized the truth of your analysis.

It will be Lutz vs Jinipa Sawettabut. Jinnipa has improved a lot, but Lutz is very capable. It should go five to be fair, and it will be a good stage for the C players on both teams.

The last rubber I used before I switched to H3 was Rakza Z and before that Golden Tango and Rakza Z EH, none of which are really that different from Dignics 09c IMHO. I also used Tenergy 05H. And at various points in the past I have used all the rubbers you mentioned. Hurricane and Skyline...

I spent almost all my playing career playing a variety of ESN and Butterfly rubbers. I have never boosted Hurricane or Skyline. I am perfectly fine using them. Admittedly I play a largely close to the table game. And maybe I would change my mind if I boosted the rubbers. But there is...

Harimoto doesn't have the silver. He played the best match against FZD. Truls clearly deserved his silver so it is splitting hairs. If you think Harimoto deserves the silver more that is an opinion. But it will not take away Truls silver. Nor the fact he beat Wang to get it. Nothing about...