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Given the drop off between 2 and 3 for Egypt, which is significant though not amazingly so, I wonder whether the coaches gave any though to playing Meshref at 3.

Ukraine has Pesotska the terminator which poses a different challenge. A major rise in level of opponent.

Looking at Sally's development curve given her comprehensive athletic talent brings up my old question - is it better to be competitive with adult players at a younger age while having gaps in your game or to be built out more comprehensively and fundamentally and challenge adult players later...

Probably studies.

Darko, not really because Kozul delivers in European matches - true that their #3 is too large a drop off. Goda has Meshref, so I don't see that one. So I could see it for Darko maybe in some contexts. Reasonable suggestions for these teams at a high level for sure.

In my experience, while women are not glass fragile, I find that sometimes, these things are discussed as if sex differences and the potential for different feelings by sex towards the same act are not reasonable. And the individuality of experience that you brought up is also extremely...

Same pattern - trying to reduce Lily's exposure to pips. Where do you see the pairings?

How is Levenko beating Sathiyan? That score is not correct!!!!

A few possibilities, hidden injury was likely the most critical one. Rakovac is also not a spring chicken with her future in front of her (30 already). Moreover, Arapovic has been more reliable than Rakovac in this London event for whatever reason. They probably also conceded the realistic...

I know China wants to join the list, but let's see how this event turns out...

Hashimoto did well in many of the backhand to backhand duels. Would definitely look at ways to exploit the pips vs anti matchup. Miwa is a complete player so she finds topspin speed and quirky placement more threatening that pips changeups. She is good enough to like and dislike anything she...

Is she still playing?

Li Jie is still playing and maybe she even got more wins lol. But Eerland's day is coming for sure.

I want to vent a bit about countries that have one player too far ahead of everyone else. Worse than Harimoto has ever really had it. Kiril is also not longer on the list as he now has a legit #2. Hopefully Hugo will leave the list as well some day. China wants to join the list but we shall...

Leon has what it takes, hopefully she will stick with the sport.

Surjan complains about a supposedly sweat ball serve. It was funny though how that serve died off her paddle... Her team smartly calls a timeout to refocus her and she wins the game.

There are no targets, if you don't know or train the players, it is best to just keep quiet. The people who are working with them are spending more time on such things than fans ever will. For a long time Petrisaa Solja was told she needed to lose weight even when she was playing her best TT...

I see what you mean. Very powerful and athletic player, hopefully the "needs to lose weight" brigade don't use her as a new target.

About 2 hours 40 minutes in. https://www.youtube.com/live/1_PAzpMs9tE?si=R8mmv8lXhCcGvswu

Looks like they want to use the matches to build the confidence of their core.