Search results

He had injuries in the last tournament he played. Fan Zhendong alluded to this. But it doesn't matter. He played and lost.

Seriously?

Max is also decent. You get individual tables.

When you play many events, you also lose the element of surprise and people learn to do what works against you. But it is an interesting question for sure.

The funny thing is that the PRK pair always stand that way, even when the guy is receiving. So it was very likely not visible to the receiver.

Sure but the perspective of Rosskopf, and the German establishment, is that Dima tends to rise to big occasions and that is why he has two bronze medals - anyone remember that lots of top players have struggled with Kiril this year but Dima still managed to win. But I have made my opinions...

He got the higher ranking after the team was selected. Dang and Dima were #1 and #2 at the time of selection. Timo was the player that most people had issue with but for me, Franziska has been a bit unreliable in his career. But that said, I like objective criteria and I do feel Franziska...

It's a common doubles pairing, the execution here is stellar.

Lol. Sure. What I actually said was that both players have largely dodgy serves and that making it sound like Kallberg is a sinner while Felix is a saint is a distorted view of table tennis. If you could produce a picture that makes it clear that Felix is serving very cleanly, I would...

I wouldn't argue Zhang Jike's techniques were near perfect at all, at least for the modern ball. But everyone can debate technical issues and some say that he had congenital issues. But in addition to things like bracing the spine or relying more on power from the legs etc., there is a lot of...

What is it about? Table tennis is just an unsafe sport?

That's why they are called test matches. Fanbo Meng also beat them in test matches. Should we have sent Fanbo Meng as well?

Clearly something is going on with top German females and back issues. They had better fix their technique from a younger age or continue to lose them early.

Haha. If that is the best you can do, then we can consider this closed. Thank you.

Falck and Karlsson have been one of the top doubles teams in the World for a long time, and they have a World Championship to show it, beating just about all the top pairs in the world at the rime to claim it. Saying that two good singles players should combine in doubles to match their singles...

The logic is nice coneptually but it is not right, it's just pretty logic. How would a pair like Kristian Karlsson and Mattias Falck be world champions in 2021 based on this logic? Because all the other higher ranked pairs they beat didn't combine well? It's worth studying the amount of luck...

I think her best medal chance for a gold was XD, as delusional as it might be. Singles and Teams were even more delusional. But PRK reminded us that you can't assume your seeding contains all the relevant information.

We are not in agreement. In a competition between world ranking and titles which show a history of being the second best mixed doubles team in the world, vs. a single match vs a lower rated opponent of equal and possibly superior strength, I will take the larger dataset. You can trust your...

I was wondering what you were going on about, then I looked at the draw and noticed that PRK is still in Hayata's path in WS, lol. This might get good. But I trust Hayata on this one. She is only pretending to be dumb for the cameras...

You mean the Hong Kong team that was put on notice by the prior results and the accumulated videotape and still lost, only with a better score? Is it a case of the North Korean team having a bad seeding or Hayata and Harimoto playing poorly? Despite the obvious answer to that question, are you...