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If you think it wasn't consistent enough, let me know what match you were watching. What he did was IMO borderline supernatural with the quality of the defender and if you count the backhand winners, they have to be up there in the % totals. Everyone can have their own opinion on whether his...

Calderano, Fan Zhendong and Liang Jingkun all have ridiculously powerful backhands as well. All that said, I think playing a chopper and running round your forehand to use your backhand speaks for itself. No top player does that on a regular basis.

You mean you saw this match and concluded that without hesitation? Seriously? https://youtu.be/RsXWlWcS1i4

When I say that you don't get forgiven for losing to Gauzy in the WTTC, Xu Xin fans continue to complain. I think the loss to Wang Yang speaks for itself

Darko Jorgic vs Wang Yang is a match that has to be seen to be believed. When a top player plays a chopper with his backhand as if it is a forehand on most of the points, it is a sign of the times that the end of the world is coming.

Caroline Meng. Chen Wozniacki

Not sure why you think it is not clear that it applies to the current Olympic cycle. When things don't apply with immediate effect, dates for implementation tend to specified, no? Or by default changes apply to the next cycle? The thing is that when this change was passed, China had all...

No. Only the top 2 players are guaranteed to not meet until the final if they meet at all. But top 2 could be any Chinese players without a foreigner above them. So there is still time for players to get into the top 2 if they aren't there now. I suspect that China will try to get LSW into...

Maybe but there are other possibilities. Maybe CM and SYS are not allowed to play as much so that DN and LSW get the points required. Or they send more players to every tournament Ito enters in an attempt to eliminate her at as early a round as possible. The real question is how far in...

Not sure what you mean. The separation rule has been removed for the Olympics. It is only for preliminary rounds. Which likely means that if you are seeded into a later round, and I think in Olympic singles, the very top seeds only start playing in round 3, ITTF wants the seeding to...

Eliminated from qualification is a bit different from elimination from the tournament especially when the tournament is based almost strictly on seeding. I do see your point but I think they just wanted to get rid of the incentive not to play players and not to send the top seeded players.

If she enters the top 2, that will be really funny

If you read the ITTF handbook, no. I think qualification is a different story and for obvious reasons (getting into the Olympics is a big deal and you don't want to be eliminated early by your countrymen especially since there are only 2 spots). We reviewed the handbook at mytabletennis...

You have really good touch and arm speed, but you overuse your arms and underuse your body compared to better players. This is why your footwork suffers as you don't get into the backswing on the forehand and backhand as part of your movement. Your weakest stroke is probably your backhand...

Invent a time travel machine and go back to the 2019 WTTC. Send hitmen to get ML and FZD without being caught. Change nationality. That's about it.

Yeah. Too late.

I agree. Disappointing that Ma Long could not keep up with the Xu Xin level but Xu Xin was truly a cloud Walker today. No one was going to beat him playing like that. Lin Gaoyuan can sleep better now.

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I am also surprised that there are no comments on DN beating WMY. Maybe there will be if DN manages to beat CM. DN is finally serious again and given how well she counters to the short side with her forehand when pulled wide, I suspect a lot of opponents are in trouble.