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I kinda nailed it lol. Epic final.

Sun Yingsha vs Wang Manyu is more interesting, that's an Olympic Gold preview. Who cares about these World Cup finalist has-beens? :P.

As an example, how much doubt was there that a 16/17 year old performing at the level of Fan Zhendong in 2013 would at some point be the greatest player of all time? Probably not much from people who are willing to say that Lin Shidong is going to be in the conversation...

A quote attributed to many people, from the Nobel prize-winning Quantum physicist Niels Bohr to legendary baseball player (and philosopher) Yogi Berra states: "It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."...

Seriously? The guy who was losing to FZD when they were juniors and who lost to 3 different players at the WJTTC? Who had to work his way onto the top team with years of religious training and the retirement of ZJK and who earned the nickname "hardest worker" from LGY? No, his "talent", if...

Today's loss by WCQ at the World Cup kind of closed the WCQ entry into this for me, others may still enjoy it. Any streak or period he wants, he has to start afresh. Maybe 2024 Olympics and 2025 WTTC.

The spin probably just wasn't there. Sometimes, under tension you are looking for spin but maybe ML just didn't contact the ball so great. It's not like many people not named Hugo are flicking WCQ's serves so he probably doesn't feel that a lot in matches.

I guess you forget he lost to Lee Sang Su just this year.

TT is in crisis and is funded in many countries by governments that will only pay for athletes with a serious chance of winning medals. Spreading around the medals to more athletes keeps more countries interested in investing in the sport.

He has always been a nervous guy of sorts but has always performed well despite the pressure. Definitely better than the others, Lin and Liang visibly tremble even more. The other point worth noting is that they kept Ma Long from coming to Houston so that Fan could eon his first WTTC. He was...

He had a crisis in 2019. He talked about it quite a bit.

One of the things that I have found fascinating and not so much discussed is the influence of Wang Hao on Ma Long's game on general. Maybe I am completely speculating, but I feel that Ma Long has played with more balance and even in losses more confidence than before. Ma Long lost more but he...

Ma Long... wow.

How Omar makes this list is completely beyond me and how no CNT players are on this list given the criteria shows a bias somewhere, just not exactly sure why it is so transparent. Kallberg is clearly a machine, but he is a very special kind of machine with amazing speed, which for me is special...

Definitely, Guo YueHua stands in a special class. But arguably, it was before the modern developments of the backhand, it would be interesting to have seen him play in era of evolved backhand technique.

I made my point that opinion is not fact. If we can't even agree on the dictionary definitions of what facts are, then there is no need to discuss. I mean you have a right to your opinions but not a right to your facts. And there are no facts that show that Hayata has less potential than...

Wait, so based on facts widely accepted in China and Japan, who has played better the past 4 years, Hirano or Hayata? Based on facts widely accepted in China and Japan list all the players that are supposed to retire. Maybe facts has a different definition on China and Japan from the Western...

No, he is not, he is holding Hirano to the standard that zeio's famous Tieba users have set for her.

Waldner doesn't have that much competition unless we are focused only on the top of Grand Slams. It is easy to underestimate Waldner when you don't take into account *all* the medals that were not gold. Olympic Singles: 1992 Gold, 2000 Silver (2004 4th place) WTTC Singles: 1987 Silver, 1989...

That's the problem with comparing people at the highest level of an activity - even people that are far ahead of the rest of us can be made to look average by comparing them exclusively to people at that end of the bell curve, while forgetting that compared to the average joe in their sport...