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Boll's match against Fettucine (sorry, Gacina) didn't convince me of his optimum form. He may grow into the tournament yet, but if I were a betting person I'd put my stake on Harimoto this time. While rooting for a bright Boll flameup.

I actually do think Gauzy outplayed XX there, much as I admire and was rooting for XX. Hat off to a game played cunningly and ably.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! My hero falls......

XX will not make that mistake again. If he gets a chance not to, that is.

Ok. Xu Xin has left Mr. Nice Guy mode. World's greatest FH fully deployed.

ZOMG. Never seen Xu Xin play... confused.

Yes. The relative weakness is no more.

Samsonov put the dragons feet to the fire. The dragon rose.

For good, that’s a very very long time.

I understand about logistics of manufacturing, distribution, stocking. That would be a valid point — if you assume manufacturers start to produce ranges of colours for the same rubber. Blue Mark V, green Mark V, orange Mark V, brown Mark V, red Mark V, that. I don't think that's viable...

The service accounts for much, but does not fully dictate the entire flow of the consecutive exchanges. Samsonov himself can change his style (make strategical and tactical adjustments) on the fly, as needed vis a vis an opponent, and can still use his serves for the full range of styles — well...

Wow. Beautiful pictures of respect and adoration.

I saw it at http://results.ittf.bornan.net/ittf-web-results/html/TTE5000/results.html#/results/2019-04-23 but it's not like that anymore.

Ok, so here it goes. Sometime after I stopped playing a decision was made. A restriction was put in place: one side black, one side bright red. That restriction actually took away one of my favourite rubbers, which was available in neither black nor red, entirely. That restriction also came...

And racket edge hits are "a touch of brilliance", and so on...

And a raspberry flick from Boll! Old dog, meet new trick...

Amazing play right now between that italian dish and Timo Boll.

That, and pronouncing Gacina as if that's an italian sott'olio dish.

Boll's doing fine, but the commentator is saying things pretty far out of right field. Boll being the Great White European Hope, to name one. I admit to being sensitive about these things, but then again, I think I have reasons and a right to be.

Heming got 4, 7, 4, 3 points to Uncle Boba's 11.