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JJH beat YJN in her first match. Which again begs the question of what the rumor of their removing her from the Olympic team would mean. Removing your only player that is currently playing well is just laughable.

Ito will win this, but her play is just weird.

My thoughts exactly, lol! If Kallberg doesn't know what to do, then what hope do we mere mortals have? No wonder blahness feels so alone when talking to the rest of us...

Liang pushes with sidespin and Kallberg does what I would do - pop the ball up and get it driven/smashed past me with no remorse...

Wow, 5-9 to 12-10, Kallberg on fire and Liang showing his nervous self!

If it wasn't for the last WTTTC in Busan, I would have said that the Koreans know how to rig the draw, their players largely have good first round matchups, and their enemies tough ones lol.

LJK vs AK. Can lightning strike twice? Kallberg knows how to never disappoint with disappointing results...

Gotta turn on the VPN lol. Good for Calderano, he was due.

Maybe the Koreans are just getting greedy and think JCH has a realistic chance of medalling now vs in a few years time.

I am beginning to think that there is a CNT civil war between whether to send ML or LJK in the third spot. That as well as the question of whether to put LJK in reserve in case they want to put ML on the injured list for Teams event should his vulnerability persist - that might reduce...

Men, SJAN always comes out of nowhere to ask questions.

Thought this would show the power of pimples!

Pips were more effective with the smaller ball (38mm) but even then, people thought the days of pips were numbered. But the real killer was when they made rules to limit what could be done with pips in terms of their aspect ratio. That and removing hidden serves pretty much ended the career of...

If we are to believe his training partner, he used to lose to his double inverted training partner who mimicked Waldner in practice all the time. So whether his advantage was the ceiling of his equipment or the Chinese training system that gave him a practice partner to optimize his game, I'll...

Citizenship is not the same thing as sponsoring association, it's quite possible that Ma Jinbao is playing on the tour because he is approved by the USATT, which is what would give him the ranking as an American. But he might not be an American citizen which is required to play in the Olympics...

In a country like Japan, that makes them 2750+ and 2600+ respectively at their peak, style matchups and other variances permitting. BTW, even with his lack of backhand, I have always felt Gucci was at least 2200.

Haha. Which partly makes the point of my post (and yours). But calcified agendas are afoot...

Gucci, the master of no backhand loop amateur table tennis.

Luckily, the US team got its best doubles pairing with Amy and Rachel qualifying though I would have had absolutely no beef with Sally qualifying if she did. Rachel at least beat Tiffany in the rematch yesterday and of course knew she had to win the match that should also have been played...