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Your entire contribution to this thread is that a "results almanac" in fact exists for these matches where Gauzy threatened top players but came up just short all throughout his career not just last night against Felix, yet you are the one getting defensive when people ask you to provide said...

And yet you still can't provide any that aren't from the last year. "Maybe you don't remember, oh also neither do I"

Maybe you're in a position of ignorance and your understanding of the game is too basic to comprehend that these matches weren't as close as you thought they were. Or maybe not. You are claiming that his career, stretching back years, was characterized by this feature, yet you can't give...

2023 WTT Contender, Amman (JOR) Main Draw MS R32 []=112062'] GAUZY Simon (FRA) []=107028'] OVTCHAROV Dimitrij (GER) 0 - 3...

2024 WTT Champions, Macao (MAC) Main Draw MS R16 []=112062'] GAUZY Simon (FRA) []=119588'] LIANG Jingkun (CHN) 2 - 3...

2024 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals, Busan (KOR) Main Draw MT Final []=112062'] GAUZY Simon (FRA) []=105649'] MA Long (CHN)...

Let me ask you a question in good faith. It might help to contextualize how you view the game and how I do. There have been many instances over the years of dominant Chinese players, lets say ML, ZJK, FZD, SYS, Chen Meng, WMY, you name it, getting pushed to a deciding 5th or 7th game by...

I am not misunderstanding but maybe you are. I am asking for examples spanning his entire career not just 2-3 examples from the last year. I'm not asking or expecting anyone to dig up the TT history books to prove their point but I do find it interesting you insist there are loads of examples...

"Simon Gauzy tests much higher rated opponent while making highlight reel shots but utlimately loses a close match" Seems like a consistent headline for much of Gauzy's career it seems. This is the comment that started everything lol.

Nobody is debating that Gauzy is in better form, though probably too little too late, in 2024. Do you have many more examples of this spanning the last ten years of his career, which is what was originally stated by turbozed?

And he didn't win that point or two, didn't go up 2-1, and didn't win the match. So how close was it really? Most table tennis players and fans should know that not all points are created equally, and that scorelines of a match don't tell the full story.

Apparently losing by 2-3 points in some games in a loss means the match was close. Apparently losing 3,11,9 to WCQ and 12,6,9 to his longtime friend, teammate and training partner Hugo are considered some of these close calls lol. By this logic, in just the last half year Lin Yun Ju has nearly...

Lol. Ok. Gauzy works harder on the table than the guys who shot up from irrelevant to world beaters in 2 years. You got me. I just made up fake news so that PoppaChubby from TTD would believe me.

Ok so you are saying he does more core strengthening than the rest of the squad. As for whether he trains way harder than the rest of the squad on the table, he doesn't, and my sources are players who have been their teammates or trained with them.

That is not true. As for the rest of your comment it feels like you are actually saying the same thing you are rebuking lol.

100%. Good offense beats good defense at the highest levels and he has always lacked the speed and/or power to compete offensively at the top, and your defense is less of a threat when you don't have an offensive threat, XX was better than Gauzy in that regard.

Absolutely. If we're going to play the what-if game then lets make sure we do it for everybody. If Harimoto had a better forehand then he wouldn't have lost several close ones against the best. If Lin Yun Ju had more power then he wouldn't have lost several close ones against the best. If Truls...

I have a feeling you're not trying to understand the point I'm making and are arguing something different entirely, for reasons I'm not sure.

I think this is who Vivarelli is but we will see. Without saying too much I think how Kou Lei is playing now is part of why Portland was willing to trade, on paper, one of the best players in the league.

It seems like people are mostly getting caught up with my comment that "only the Chinese are better than him". Without taking things too literally my point is that Gauzy has been a top non-Chinese or non-Asian player for much of his career and he is in the realm of player that (as referenced in...