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Zhang Jike lost his patience in game 3 and it comes back in doses. But the kill shots are amazing.

He is still ZJK the competitor. Stamina or no stamina.

Nah - Ricardo won.

I was very happy with ZJK's play. It will clearly get better but he didn't look as crappy as in his last match vs Apolonia. Watching him today vs an underrated Stoyanov was inspiring.

Didn't come any closer than that. Go Kanak!

Men, stop it!

No Wong Chun Ting?

What really impressed me watching the final is how spin based Ruifeng's style is and how much trouble he was able to give Morizono with it, even when he repeatedly fell asleep instead of closing out big leads. That match should have been a comfortable 4-0.

National team is sometimes thought of by some people as only the core players, but generally speaking, the top 6 - 12 players or so depending on country are national team players and maybe the top 3 - 5 are the core team. Morizono is top 6-12 players in Japan.

He is JNT, and he made the final here so that is not really zeio's point. Zeio's point is more about why he cannot get above those ahead of him in JNT. Even with surprising chiquita, once the opponent is always waiting for topspin they play faster as all they have to do is get to the ball and...

Yes. They needed Mizutani to get 2. They needed the certainty of Samsonov getting 1. That Mizutani couldn't deliver is what killed the strategy. There is no guarantee that Samsonov could beat Boll which is what you need to make a different strategy better.

Zeio posted on this already. According to an article, China is allowing (provincial) clubs to play in ITTF challenger tournaments as part of its strategy to adapt to the new ITTF rankings.

Han Ying for example has been known to beat players on the men's German national team because of her chopping variation. In the end, even if men win, it is not as simple as some think they have to use the right strategies as simply trying to hit through the blocks of the ladies is a death sentence

It depends on the continental quotas as well.

Well if they eliminate divisions 2 and 3, it sounds pretty logical. Not sure about bloated.

Go Jike! Make a monkey out of me!

You obviously missed the point of her post. Since you have to read a lot of posts to get it, I can understand why you missed it and there is no point in revisiting the issue.

They have a lot of time to figure this out. But if they had benched Ishikawa in that final it would have been a bad move. Her performance however gives them more to work with.

Timo was still playing when he looked past it. He won an Olympic bronze team medal when he looked last it, even beating Joo. It might have been because it was an Olympic year but no one ever suggested he was retiring because he was always playing. So this depends on how well you think Zhang...

In any case, my point is that it's not as if Persson said something that should undermine his credibility with anyone but the most serious ZJK fan. I am sure that without this forum, if someone told me ZJK was retired, I would have believed it and if someone told me ZJK was making a comeback, I...