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No way I'll put WCQ's forehand ahead of FZD. I won't even put WCQ on the top 5 list

Talking about the top five forehand, did anybody still remember Wang Liqing or Korea's Olympic gold medalist Ryu Seung-min? In their heydays, few players can hang with them with forehand power loops.

Before we discuss who has the best forehand or backhand, we should first establish some consensus what constitute a great forehand or backhand. There are many attributes to constitute a great forehand and backhand, I'll list some essentials of them here, you can add more: Consistency, self...

No way LGY's forehand is in the top 10, may not even top 20. His forehand, mostly counter loop, is fast close to the table. Once he is pushed away from the table, his forehand rally lose to most pros.

In my opinion, when FZD is in beast mood which is quite often, he has the most deadly and powerful backhand and forehand.

It's rare even among penhold pros. That's why you saw the move in Xu Xin's highlight. You can learn and try it for fun but not worthy spending time on it.

It's a lot harder than backhand flip due to the wrist bio-mechanics. Even among penhold players, very few can execute this shot in matches.

What an asshole Liu was. Maybe in China there is no board line between verbal insult/abuse and motivation.

The current rating algorithm has a large time lag (about a year). To reduce this lag, rating algorithm can adopt moving average which places more weight on the recent events and less in the remote ones. Of course, this new method will favor heavily on LSD who just had a hot run on the last 6...

A very humble WCQ. In the R16 interview: 'Anyone here can beat me' Interview before the match against Darko: 'I'm the underdog...' Interview after the match against Darko: 'Tomo is in great form, I'm the underdog against him tomorrow...' However, he still has the confidence about himself: 'When...

The second case. As the world number 1, he needs to beat the current best to make the champion carry enough weight. Actually, if LSD were in the final, beating him would also do as the current two best players are clearly Lin and Tomo. Since Tomo is an outside threat to CNT, he carries more weight.

Frankly, among all Chinese top players, WCQ's interview provides the most rich and solid analysis and content. Wang might be the most aggressive player but actually a quite humble guy off the table. Here, he was treating himself as a underdog against pretty much everyone. He didn't think he was...

He's complaining: 'I can not see his serve'.

Like LSD, WCQ didn't break sweat for the first two games. Can Darko copy Tomo's performance?

If WCQ can crush Darko and beat Tomo, we can say he is back.

All Chinese men's final is gone. Now we'll see a all non-Chinese men's final is possibility.

Give Tomo credit for quick adjustment and toughness.

LSD clearly learnt something from his last loss to Tomo and he is calmly killing him.

Since WCQ's opponent at semi is Darko, I'll give him better chance to reach the final than his compatriot LSD who still may go through Harimoto. Nevertheless, the all familiar all Chinese final is likely to happen. Only the local country hero Harimoto with the local fans support may have...

By beating Truls Moregard WCQ may finally have got out of his months long slump period. For player like him, self confidence is super important for his fast attacking style.