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Wait, you mean that the fact that she was ranked lower than others had nothing to do with her play? She just magically lacked the opportunities that others like Kihara and even Harimoto magically found? IT is easy to forget her subpar performances in Japanese tournaments prior to the Olympic...

Tanaka down 0-2 to Achanta - amazing.

Dima lost to Pucar in WTTC 2019 as well. He needs a lot of revenge.

So again, whose fault is it that those players are playing so many more events than others? Why is Hayata able to play so many events while the others can't? Divine intervention?

Usually there are a limited number of entrants per country. Qualifying is really about who doesn't get seeded into the main draw based on number of entries, number of players whose ranking qualify automatically for the main draw and the size of the main draw. So if you are not high enough to...

Yoshimura 1-0, 10‐4 to 1-0,12-14 vs Rassenfosse. Amazing.

There are too few seeded players. This is often done to increase randomness and excitement. A reliable draw will have about half the players seeded. A semi reliable draw will have a quarter. I wouldn't be surprised if the maxed the number of seeds at 8 for these events but it could be 16...

Blame everyone else (even if in jest) other than Hirano for her own seeding?

Lee Ho Ching during the WTTTC at Busan took me back to her early-to-mid 2010s form, that is why I picked her to come out. It is easy to forget she used to be a stable top 15 during the ELO era, she still plays that old ancient topspin game but has managed to make it workable again vs the last...

Aruna vs Lim is never interesting, Aruna always loses. He does score the random win against such dominant opponents (Harimoto, Lin Yun Ju) but Lim is a real deal head scratcher.

Yes, your experience is what I feel when I use 5 plies for short practice periods. Again I am not saying they do not have offsetting advantages. I am even going to experiment with a 7ply with Mark V for a hitting style I want to investigate and I have seen someone develop an extremely...

Looks like Tatiana learned to play pips - good for her even if bad for my picks lol.

Ady Sareen coaching Jishan Liang - uphill battle against Marcelo Aguirre to be honest, Bundesliga players are tough...

One of my friends today was complaining that Quadri struggles with some players because he doesn't smash. And we had a debate over whether it makes more sense to topspin every ball even if it means you have to rally more vs having both a smash and a topspin and then using the topspin on low...

I guess I am the naysayer here after years of promoting using slower blades. Ultimately, a blade will not hurt your playing level unless 1) you have a specialist style that doesn't work with it (maybe you are a long pips blocker or chopper) 2) you can't get sufficient arc on tricky shots...

Wondering whether Quadri and Omar will get out of the All Africa Games early enough to play in Singapore.

Qualifying picks (dark horse) - crazy draw - I know Dyjas is out, but he is who I would have picked so I am trying to stay blind: 1. Milos Redzminski (Uda) 2. Jakub Dyjas (Ionescu) 3. Kubik (Thakkar) 4. Gionis (Huang) 5. Ionescu (Feng) 6. Yoshimura (Bardet) 7. Monteiro (Olah) 8. Tanaka (Gacina)...

Chan Baldwin... couldn't beat Gardos, now he wants to derail the comeback of Dyjas... come on, Jakub! And as I say that Jakub doing a special mix of choking and fighting....

WTT lags a good match. WTT should be renamed WTF...

Those articles are fairly poisonous to Watanabe.