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Yuki Hirano completes Harimoto's shame. Good to see Freitas back in form which I suspect will get better. Boll is still magic and Gauzy needs to do better.

True but the main point remains that it is hard to make predictions. I doubt anyone seriously believed Xu Xin would be this competitive in singles again.

It has been mentioned before (An Jaehyun) as the last example that Harimoto has a bad psychological mindset when playing lower rated high level juniors. This reinforces that.

On the women's side, also a good job. Maybe Hashimoto vs Kihara is a wash compared to Gu vs He but not a big deal either way.

On the men's side, I looked at all the matches that didn't get TV tables and the only one I could even quibble with was Franziska vs Kallberg. I would prefer to see them all but a job well done in picking matches for tables.

Lots of friendly fire in round 1. LYJ vs CCA is interesting.

Ah okay. I was going off the knee injury description. Knees are not trivially injured unless there is significant trauma.

I think Xiang Peng is the current top junior talent in China adjusted for age. Maybe the other candidate is Liu Yebo. And there were other factors.

That is very unfortunate as it is likely a major ligament.

You have made statements in the past about form determining whether someone makes the Chinese team vs results. My point is that people don't talk about your flaws when you mostly win points on balls to your forehand. When you lose points, people ask why and ask you to fix the stroke. People...

Mizuki Oikawa beat Timo Boll in the German League earlier this year. So I don't take it as anything against Xu Yingbin.

In the middle of this ERT video, there is a segment on Wang Manyu. Like I said, the results are important and you leave the rest to the coaches. https://youtu.be/QC866oJ2z2w

The one thing all Chinese players have in common is being the result of a Darwinian process that puts you through multiple levels of competition and trial. Form is at best an accidental result of that competition and is far less meaningful. As I remind people, no one is skeptical about the...

I generally consider these statements a form of racism. Why don't people talk about how bad the Chinese would have been if Wang Liqin and Kong Linghui didn't train in Europe? Nigeria has had generations of good table tennis players and Quadri as good as he is is not necessarily the best of...

Since usualsuspect has repeatedly claimed that Ma Long has the same forehand at 14 that he does now, I tried to find video to support his case. Unfortunately most of the videos on the internet have been deleted. But I found this one. Did Ma Long had the same forehand then that he does now...

I read the post and coach Kurasame said the same that Harimoto needed to expand his attack patterns using Ma Long's example.

In other words, you don't understand the threads subject because you are unwilling to study it. Then why complain when someone says you miss the point since you are admitting to missing it?

The video in the topic was based on matches played in the middle of last year. He was WR 4/5 at the end of the year after winning the Grand Finals. He has been known for having a world class backhand even as a kid. People think of him as a backhand player and that factors into opinions on his...

The topic is the video. You asked why the topic/thread and the topic was driven by zeio's promise to translate a video. If you want to say that the topic isn't about the video, and is a general assessment of Harimoto's forehand, you can see that there isn't universal agreement in the subject...

The video from zeio is a bit old and was made in 2018. Some Chinese players/coaches believe Jun Mizutani and Timo Boll or Dima have bad forehands too so it is all opinions. The point is that if any of the aforementioned guys, and Harimoto can join them, has such a bad forehand, why so...