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Germany outsmarted themselves yesterday. If they had not assumed uncritically that France was going to play Gauzy at 3, they would have come up with the right lineup.

It's really Fan Zhendong's fault. If he was still around, Lin would be the #3 he was supposed to be at this point in his career. Liang and Lin can still turn it around. I think people are underestimating what is possible. It is just nos as easy as it used to be.

Will it make a difference? Korea is too strong. But at this point, China just has to focus on the next round. Too many landmines for their draw to make a huge difference. Other than maybe Germany, all the other countries that can beat them are going to pound Lin Shidong and Liang Jingkun...

No offense taken, you have to know some of these players and how they think to have a better appreciation of what you are watching. They are just as human as we are, the gap is not always as numbers would lead you to believe.

They probably won't have a choice. They likely just fear for visibility into the financial and operations.

It is really interesting when peolle don't know a player's name that they assume he is a random. Calling Ranefur a random would be like calling Xu Yingbin a random. The main reason you don't know him is because he plays for Sweden and the country already has 4 strong players and he is now #5...

Well given how broke WTT is, we need to welcome such things lol...

I guess Japan wanted to give Hashimoto a real test by putting her out against Sabine. Now everyone has played and rhey can focus on their top 3.

The tournament format is not what you think it is.

I wonder whether Truls should not just let Liang win without trying hard so that Liang doesnt reactivate. It is like the effort he is playing with is bringing back Liang's level on sone points. But the speed of movement to find and recover from the forehand is just not there. But if any match...

Aren't you being a bit premature, my friend lol....

Okay. I think others can judge given Inmade the same comment to another poater who made a similar point to yours. You can have the final word if you need it. I want this thread to stay focused on the tournament. Than you.

No. I am not in the mood because the question itself displays a refusal to just do modest investigation into the details and given your posting history, sometimes I can't discuss such things sometimes with you in good faith. You know the issue yet you are asking as if I made some point that...

BtW for anyone interested, Ranefur has a good youtube channel on his approach to training etc. He is a very deep thinker about table tennis and you can see why his game is giving Lin fits when you watch it.

They clearly do, they just decided to put Moregardh at 3 I suspect to guarantee the one point. May not come to that with how Ranefur is playing.

The power of the Japanese TV table tennis lobby.

Sorry it is not something I am in the mood to discuss seriously. You can watch the match Wang vs Kallberg and see what Kallberg got faulted for. The point is visibility even when the ball is in the air. It should never at any point be obstructed by the body. This is baked into the rules, if...

Thr ball passes behind the head for Kallberg, the referee calls it. It does for Wang, silence. Enforcement is trash.

That toss with 100% certainty passed behind the head or body at some point. Visibility at contact is not the rule.

The rules are not about seeing the ball. I am not sure where this interpretation comes from. The rules are about the ball being visible throughout the serve motion and uncontroversially so.