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Ishikawa is super lucky that Austria Open is a Platinum event. She still has a chance but that could very well be her last. The World Cup and WTGF won't help Ishikawa much if Hirano doesn't mess up since the seeding is out of the picture now. For the TWC, Baba will likely field them as evenly...

Ito reaching the final here in Bremen means she's cemented her singles spot for Tokyo 2020. Doesn't even need the Austrian Open and WTGF. She could just show up for T2 Singapore and that's it. Ishikawa or Hirano winning the World Cup won't even matter. Scary.

Most people won't notice, but those with trained eyes would notice the color is off.

2 rare occurrences off the top of my head. WTTC 2018 LSW 2-3 Ito Swedish Open 2018 LSW 3-4 Ito Japan Open 2019 ZYL 1-4 Nagasaki Swedish Open 2019 ZYL 2-4 Nagasaki

FTW vs Ito G2, 9:5, 9:8, TO for FTW, 9:11. FTW needed this game. G3, 3:3, 3:7, Ito is pulling away on her service turn, 4:8, 5:9, 5:10, 7:10, 7:11. No chance if Ito could win in rallies away from table.

The ITTF switched to HLS from Flash for live streaming starting from the World Cup 2016. Good thing, but then sometime around 2017 some dumbasses messed up the configuration on the server side and the live streaming would stream at 540p instead of 720p, and because of that the VODs were...

This is only natural when amateurs edit videos. I can't stand all these screen captures. MFSB. There's this thing called "generation loss." It starts from Laola already at the streaming level, then when these dumbasses cut them, then when these highlights get uploaded to Youtube. We're...

Power of Mom!!!

If even my idol could do this, then...

WJP advice to FTW before the match: You gotta entertain the crowd, for coming all the way here to cheer on their players. FTW is like "fine, I'll spot her 3 games and then use her as a movable shooting target."

H3 effectively cures you from any EJ virus. I compare it to 照妖鏡, literally "evil-exposing mirror", which is an item from ancient Chinese mythology. In essence, Chinese tacky rubber works by the principle of "table tennis with Chinese characteristics." To quote a Chinese proverb...

It feels really weird to see Franziska play like an Asian and JYS a European. Anyway. This was how European players played at their best in the 90s. Putting much more weight on serve and attack. Very active in stepping around for the 3rd and 5th balls, with a mix of BH winners at the table...

On service, Ito is aiming for Yang's short FH, with a mix of serves to her half-long BH. Same for Yang. Very short points and few open rallies. It comes down to who misses less. Yang gets faulted serving at 7:8. Ito grabs the chance with 1 kick serve and 1 3rd ball. 7:11. G2, perfect...

0% team order, apparently.

There's not much to gain from short interviews. But after subbing them for a year, I still got something useful out of certain players. Say LSW, Gu Yuting, and now Qian Tianyi have all mentioned on separate occasions that Ito is very smart in calculating the serve and attack, when to take risk...

On the macro level, they have developed a database of profiling for all the players that pose a major threat. Usually they'd start off by gathering game stats from all the matches, especially the ones they lose, and figure out the reason behind the loss, like technical, tactical, physical...