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Golden Tango for sure.

Fan looks injured so I would bet on Wang. But otherwise, I always bet on Fan. He is just too consistent for most of his compatriots when he is on.

Thank you CTTA for preventing this from happening in Houston!

Yet Darko plays Ma Long way better than Hugo ever has and even Harimoto as well. I think you are misreading the dynamics of a particular matchup and using it to deprecate a player whose style you don't like. The issue is in the specifics on the matchup, even Darko's backhand vs topspin wasn't...

It is just ther matchup. While Aruna won a game in Singapore in 2021 when they played last, you could see that since Aruna has no offense over the table, Hugo almost always knows he will get thr first opening in the short game. I honestly think Aruna was very satisfied with how far he got...

Darko can beat Hugo, that is a very different matchup that can flip depending on how fit Darko is. Darko has a very underrated forehand, it is a bit weird to hear that it hs supposedly bad. He is especially strong on the countertopspin and I think it is to put too much stock in one match or...

1 and 2 get put in opposite halves of the draw as do 2 and 4 but 1 can be in the same half as 3 or 4 but who gets seeded in the same half as 1 can't be in the same half as 2. So 1 and 3 is possible (so that 2 and 4 are in the other half).

To put it in perspective many people ehonused to be able to beat him can't get a game off hu I'm now.

It's a great question. He was an unrated amateur in the 1800 range or so around 2013/2014. He started training and playing more seriously around 2015, got into tournaments soon after and was already pushing 2000‐2100 around 2017 in practice matches. By the time I first played him informally he...

I am fairly sure they played each other the last time they were in Singapore and Hugo won 3‐1. The main advantage Hugo has as you pointed out is the backhand, not just as a stroke but the variation it gives him on serve receive. Quadri becomes a bit predictable after a while as he doesnt...

In my case, my backhand was technically better than my forehand when I was lower rated, I won much more points with backhand opening and backhand exchanges. I closed the gap a bit more, but my concern is more about what will happen with more passive play, because as you pointed out, things that...

Trained a little yesterday evening for the first time in about 10 days - too busy to get out as much but there should be a window this weekend. Did a lot of practice trying to spin the ball very slowly in fast rallies - the shot is probably useless but it is part of my range training. It isn't...

FZD's destruction of LJH was pretty comprehensive. It was is if someone found some interesting data about ball placement vs LJH and FZD executed it perfectly.

Nah, just run down everything, you just have to be the Flash.

The most annoying part for me is that you don't get to see the serve! And in a post-match interview, Truls said it was a serve his father likes a lot but he doesn't like so much. They didn't even replay it. Great job, WTT!

School and work has made it hard to get out to play any TT - so I have been doing the next best thing and watching TT lol. I have been watching a lot of matches on this youtube channel in Canada. I don't understand how their ratings work but the matches are kinda fun - it seems this (I think...

The guys I saw were trying to beat him like everyone else and he got to the finals, it is not his fault that WCQ got injured or that no one could beat him. - once those 4 got to the semifinals, the competition became largely useless as those four were going to the WTTC anyways. Those guys who...

That's a fair assessment, let's see how the matches play out. He beat just about everyone on the CNT in the trials other than Ma Long. Ma Long needs the rating points here to keep his ranking more than anyone else, as he has a bunch going off in April (Olympic Games).

Yeah, winning the first game by a wide margin is not a confirmation in any way that you are a better player at any level. In fact, the better player may need to collect information to play better and losing 11-1 is very often a part of that process.

Sometimes, this is about the opponent more than you, sometimes they go from chop to no spin and the other player doesn't adjust or look closely enough to see what the opponent is doing. (but I speaking about myself here, you are likely different.)