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Someone forgot to tell Togami he is in Qatar and not Japan?

You can take risks in the rally but you have to get to the rally first. That didn't happen for TB in the clips shown in this video. Trying to be more aggressive on the serve receive or third balls that he was already missing would have just led to missing even worse. The point is that you can't...

He has answered the question - this was clearly just a casual mess around situation and its unlikely his opponent was giving more than 50% of top effort.

This is what happens to anybody when they are playing someone 400+ points better than them, it isn't just TB. Also why I asked for a video against someone his level but he hasn't provided yet...

Fair enough. I forgot about that Uda match. I still fail to see how the plug hasn't been pulled on LGY yet but even so he didn't look like himself, as well as Gauzy was playing.

Zeng Jian has seen better days but it's still not impossible for anyone outside the top 10 to lose to her. Just sucks it happened for Adriana in this tournament.

I can't really conclude much from a 2 minute video where your opponent is much better than you but I'll try to take a look if you post more against people your level. No, focusing on counterlooping wouldn't win you a lot of points at the 1900 level and improving isn't as simple as "focusing on...

Going 6 games with a guy that probably none of us knew before this week was probably a warning sign. I watched the match against Gauzy and it looks like LGY is moving in slow motion and much less explosively compared to what we've seen from him before.

Your issue with receiving the serves was not really that you didn't read the spin correctly, it is that you didn't read the depth correctly and were not able to cover the fast serves to the middle and backhand. Your topspin game is not an 8/10 - you don't recover at all after the first topspin...

The way the camera starts zooming in as closely as possible when he starts tearing up... sad but funny

Not that strange, it is explained why on the previous page

That's why they threw money at KCJ, as mentioned earlier the ESN brands are opening up the wallet for sponsorships these days, maybe more than Butterfly

Yeah it's the case in a select few countries in East Asia but not even all of Asia, but definitely not the case in most of Europe and the rest of the TT playing world - other brands have plenty of representation elsewhere on the map

I know a very big name European player who pretty much solely prioritizes league matches, WTT is just a cherry on top, and he's not the only one

The latter, they won't be serving meals in the hotel near 10pm, so now you have just played a backbreaking 7 gamer, made the trek back to the hotel, are probably physically and mentally exhausted, and you need to find something that is still open for food at that hour which depending on your...

Another thing I'm not sure if you mentioned but oftentimes the meals served at the hotel are only put out at a certain time. And hotels often are not super close to the venue. So it is easy to miss the designated meal times if your match is scheduled at a certain time and then you are on your...

If you're looking at the top players in the world, what equipment they use often isn't as simple as what they prefer to use

Oh yeah of course, I just mean it is understandable how Kanak could have lacked that extra push as things started going south in the middle of the match.

And the part you can't say out loud is that Ionescu had a joke of a first round match while Kanak got a tough player who plays in the TTBL, just to compound the rest issue.

Great guy and solid player. He spent some years here in the US coaching and playing before moving back.