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Great effort by Pitchford. LGL had a lot of good things to say about his performance today.

What it's like to watch on zhibo.tv:

Very insightful commentary by LGL on zhibo.tv.

North Korea no longer able to keep Japan at bay. So much has changed in the past several years.

You know Bobrow is high when he doesn't stop talking.

The perennial Acoustic Carbon, Moristo SP. She used H3 on her forehand for a while to work on her forehand but I think she has gone back to G1 fairly recently?

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?17043-World-Team-Cup-2018&p=221937#post221937

Look up the seeding list PDF on ITTF. It's there.

I'm not sure. Boll is too far away.

Rubber deteriorates, oxidizes and hardens, even if you just leave it on the shelf. OTOH, the more you re-glue, the more you expose the rubber to stress, which is the biggest factor as it breaks the cross-linking even faster.

They re trying out all pairs in anticipation for the Tokyo Olympics. It was in the news. For Qatar Open, they will send Harimoto/Morizono, and Mizutani/Oshima-kun.

Lam Siu Hung managed to drop 7 points straight after leading 8-2 in the 3rd. Harimoto was totally out of it.

Nah, Ueda earned his spot. He won the Japan Top 12 last year, though with the absence of Mizutani. Ueda has been much more consistent in singles than Matsu-ken. That's evident in this Team World Cup. He plays well in doubles as well.

Hong Kong is gonna lose with this lineup. They could be saving it for WTTC.

On the women's side, Mika Baba said she will field players in good form, and so Hirano will be benched.

In TV Tokyo's interview, Harimoto explained that in the match against Assar, he knew he had the upper hand, but Assar messed with his mind by putting up the "I give up, nah just kidding, gotcha" attitude in the 3rd game, a tactic common among European veterans. He added that "not only strength...

That depends. Many of them can actually hear to a certain extent, and according to some there is a constant buzz, so they suffer more in a noisy environment because they can't really pinpoint the source of the noise, and that can disorient them.

Someone must've hit the .25x play speed. Sounds so funny.