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He has had his failures for sure (losing in the first round to Dyjas in Houston is the biggest one and then to Jorgic and An Jaehyun in the round of 16 at the Olympics in Japan and the WTTC in 2019), but the only real competition he has are LYJ, Dima, Boll and Calderano and if you just look at...

Felix Lebrun deserves the title for a year now. But Harimoto has been the best player outside the Chinese for the last 5 years even while he has disappointed quite a few times. That's juat backed up by statistics.

Unless you have it on video, it is hard to be objective, memory tells self-serving stories. I felt equally effed in state champs but again, I didn't record it, I might just be remembering his nets and forgetting mine. But yeah FZD is a hard luck man. Alexis edge on match point and this - sux!

You are over thinking this, he won, that is all that matters. And no, you did not count wrong.

I love the honesty of WCT and DHK - paraphrasing roughly, WCQ and SYS are at a super level so we learn a lot from them.

A part of me wants Batra to beat Hayata and Chen Meng to beat Harimoto so we can see Batra-Meng with a ticket to the Olympics on the line for Meng. This would be a great match. TT Divinity, please make it happen... ok fine, I should stop being so selfish and heartless to all those Japanese fans...

He is just pointing out that the players are playing way too many events vs what they would do optimally to play their best.

Hari-boy just seemed like a slow old man. Felix Flash is really fast.

Harimoto going to lose to Europe lol!

Why almost? I bring up the example of Kao for a reason but it is not the only one - Franziska also lost to Kao earlier in the year before Busan, but it is not just about losing but how you lose. You can look at his history of losses and you will see the number of losses to players that one...

No, Patrick did not just lose to a good player, lost to a player who he should be reliably better than under circumstances where Germany needed a win and didn't bring his very best game. This happens too often. Anyone can play well when you are not expected to win and the stakes are relatively...

Is it really? Does Ovtcharov lose to players who are clearly worse than him? And if/when he does, does he lose without a close match?

You seem to forget trivially all the things that Dima has done under pressure and all the losing that Franziska has done under similar pressures. Dima may not be the same player but he thrives under pressure and brings out his very best performance when the stakes are high. Again, why did...

Dima is the higher ranked player and more reliable at similar events (though if we follow the trends of our small sample, he is due for a quarterfinal spot with no medal in singles and a bronze medal in Teams).

Because Germany is not trying to beat China, Germany is trying to medal in Teams, and against the teams that are causing Germany trouble, Timo is a more reliable player than Franziska. The simplest example is Franziska losing to Kao Cheng Jui at the WTTC in Busan. That should not have...

Franziska is like long pips, the higher the level of the opponent, the more effective his shots become when they land lol.

It gives other countries hope so it is good for the sport! Seriously, Fan Zhendong is now Humpty Dumpty, we will see whether all China's team's coaches, therapists and men can put him back together again.

Timo has more fans than Dang. It is like telling stories about Taylor Swift during during NFL games though not quite the same thing. But obviously, no single commentary will work for everyone.

Very much so, when you beat Chinese national team players at big events, you are truly defeating a machine and should get credit for even trying or coming close, not insults given the magnitude of the task.

The investment in Hirano's promise is huge so no calls for retirement any time soon. But if Hayata had that result, all we would hear is how dumb she is...