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Huge win. He never beats Dima in big matches so this was huge. Now will Lin do his job? And will Japan regret their victory over Taiwan in the group stages lol?

Wow. If Chuang wins this, the match is over barring a German miracle. Lin is almost unbeatable.

Looks like Taiwan is targeting Franziska and for Lin to take 2.

Maybe because Harimoto has improved enough in 3 to 4 months that Wang didn't obliterate him as badly as he would have prior to this? Let's see how it goes.

Is Groth another player whose star is hard to track? Sometimes he is the second coming of Boll and then sometimes he is the second coming of Maze post injuries.

Harimoto largely needs to defend his middle more aggressively and I suspect that will happen more and more as he develops better footwork. At the age of 20, it is possible to write off a player but I am not sure it is a wise idea in this case, especially when this match could easily have been a...

I suspect this won't age well. Harimoto is amazingly still improving. Wang is at his peak

Definitely not fun if you like to play fast topspin all the time, but I think once you learn to play slow and read the ball and adjust to the patterns, it becomes much easier than playing fast topspin just because it is slow.

Will love to hear the coaching rationale for fielding Ito. @zeio , please do not fail us.

Come on, Samara tougher than Szocs? Not even entirely clear at this point whether she is clearly tougher than Diaconu and Dragoman and Zaharias. Romania has built a tough team for a while and will be strong for a long time.

I wish they had played Sora in that slot, I think he could have given the Dragon more trouble, though the Dragon would have been clearly prepared.

The best thing about this result for France, which might get even better on the men's side but regardless even if it stops at bronze, is that it gives extra fuel to sell the hosts as Olympic teams medal favorites. Though in reality, doubles at the Olympics adds a layer of complexity that is real.

The fact the hustler uses unorthodox rubbers does explain a lot of what you see in the video and it goes unsaid lol. Definitely a hype job.

Women.

Baby Shark is back, baby!

I have seen players get to 2300 without a solid pips game, it is all relative.

I wanted Wong Chun Ting to terrorize Japan. Was gutted when no one else on Hong Kong managed to win a match vs Austria, and two of them were close enough that it was really sad.

It was definitely a mix of both Kao relaxing and Falck giving up and relaxing out of hopelessness. But Falck played way below his level - Kao should probably win but not that much.

It was a choke job, by the time he recovered, it was too late. If he had the same mindset in the 1st game that he got to late in the third game, he would have played much better. The pressure got to him and he started thinking too much.

Denmark moved Groth to the third slot since they realized that Slovenia would likely rely on Darko winning two and Kozul winning the third slot. I didn't think Rasmussen was good enough for the strategy to make a difference but between his play and Hribar's choke job, it was enough to make it work.