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Edward Ly is an interesting story that has me puzzled. Continental story aside, he performed extremely well at the tournament and was clearly the best player. I am curious as to how Canasa produced such a pop layer and what it might mean if he played on tour.

Zeio wishes the win was more confident lol.

I don't know enough to answer certainly - some of their income comes from coaching, but coaching is not the same thing to everyone especially if you can own your club - even Timo Boll coaches, but more as a practice partner for the higher level players. But maybe someone better connected like...

Ma Jinbao went down 0-3 to Eugene at the US Open before mounting a comeback. Two "average" players I guess:

World level is world level, there are no average players at the world level. Eugene has beaten a lot of players in the top 100, you can decide whether you want to use the word "average" for that or something else, there are no average 2800 players IMHO.

That's inevitable but part of it is also that the lower rated players are generally expected to be handled by overall playing level and usually don't get specialized prep or coaching tactics used on them until after the first game. This is very different from the enemies of China who get...

Sample sizes of one with all the caveats there in. Mishel is a lefty with really great serves. Sarah just took some miracle potion, such things should not be happening - but more seriously, I have always felt that the CNT players sometimes play matches with deliberate instructions to handicap...

The highest level part of Gaston's game is his service and his blocking - that is what I see him doing well when he beats strong players (of course serving is really serve and attack). He isn't a counterlooper per se. Using ITTF ranking today to evaluate a player is misleading - Gaston was top...

Again, not exactly taking it easy, as Gaston Alto's superpower is service and blocking. But of course, the difference in level means the game is so slow for him he doesn't really need to try. But he is another guy who can make you look bad without seriously spinning any balls.

I don't know whether that is balance so much as the usual result vs Wang Chuqin.

He used to play in French League as well, he is probably somewhere in Europe playing and training this year, anyone who acts like Eugene wasn't a top player who just couldn't play for Canada in the kinds of ITTF events that would have made him famous is not really serious, if he had been able to...

Because you don't watch (enough) table tennis. This guy was the best table tennis player in the Americas for a while, he used to either win or come second in the US Open almost every year even with all those German and Japanese people coming in. Old ITTF rules didn't let him play for Canada...

Trying is a relative term. But I agree with you on some point. He missed a shot in the first game that he made in the third game, but he also took many aggressive shots that he didn't have to take and I am not entirely sure he would have taken those shots against a better player either with...

The Japanese guy did it in best of 5 and he couldn't beat Ma Jinbao, it would have been interesting in best of 7.

He is slower now, but he has always been a touch player relative to his level. Eugene has dominated NA for over a decade and a half, virtually all the time I have watched TT, you have to make him play physical to see his physical, he wants to junk you to death.

Canadian 1900 is not the same as US 1900, Canadian 1900 might be really 2000‐2100 USATT.

Agreed, I stil ln remember Hao Shuai coming for NA Teams in 2013, and it was the first time I saw 2500 players unable to return serves as if they were 1600 players.

Nah, Eugene has always had a lazy looking style, it takes a high level player to bring out his best game. Even when he was younger, he looked a lot like this, though what younger means is relative.

Of course Eugene was never trying, but if you watch Eugene, this is his style, you have to hit a certain level of speed and consistency to make him look like he is trying, if you can't even return the serve, what is the point?

Japanese Champs for Hari.