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The sweep of Hayata and Harimoto by Lim and Shin seems to have passed without comment.

If Hugo beats An tomorrow, he becomes the #4 seed at the Olympics and is guaranteed not to meet a Chinese player until the semis unless something changes that at the next event in China.

It will be interesting to see what happens if Cho Daesong gets the spot. Limits their singles options.

Is the spot a coaches' selection or a ranking race?

BTW, did anyone see the great match point between the two men's doubles teams from France?

Hashimoto gets a game off Hayata - impressive.

Hurricane Hirano comes back from 2-5 down in the 5th to win 11-7 after the change of ends. Well done!

Hirano just saved 4 or 5 match points against Xunyao Shi. They go into the decider!

But we (and they) know it was a choice. They could have actually gone to Taiyuan, but they weighed other things as well.

Don't all contenders look alike? ;)

Kallberg is interesting - she must have radically improved and still be radically improving because there is no galaxy in which even in February or maybe March, someone who can beat Diaz should lose to Kallberg.

This video is relevant. One of the points he makes (which can get missed depending on your focus) is that pros get lots of blades to test so they may get many blades of the same model and then pick and keep the ones they like the feeling of. This is a form of quality control so even if a blade...

Alexis plays better when his opponent is always giving him quality and speed because it keeps the potential for risk the same on both sides. Experienced players with variation will know not to do this and will give him some rope to hang himself - younger players (or even veteran players) who...

Lots of matches and results in Taiyuan that makw you wonder about the playing conditions...

Miwa loses to Xunyao Shi, who was well prepared through all the tight moments and seemed to know how to get Miwa to play long and handled many of Miwa's power placements well. Miu Hirano wins a close one over Li Yu Jhun. She will get Xunyao Shi next.

Hari-boy goes down again. The night is truly darkest before the dawn...

Good to hear that, maybe the black tag and fish scale silliness from a few years ago is over.

That is the same issue discussed in the article he is linking to, you may not have clicked it.

It's definitely way more than 30. Whether it is 60 or not is debatable. And it is incredibly illegal, the problem is that it is accepted widely. In fact most shovel and reverse pendulum serves are illegal.

Older Viscarias are slower - more feel - alright. Pay $600 for that - are you insane? If you are sure you love the blade that much and are going to play with it for life and never damage it, nothing is too expensive I guess. I am just not your guy.