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Looks like D09c is killing Zyre03...

I hate those matchpoint balls that the tightness of the moment makes you mistrack the trajectory and the ball falls off your paddle because you didn't make good contact. It is interesting how the good players make the same mistakes we all do but just at a higher level of speed and difficulty...

Close match, both players definitely deserved to win, the player that was better in the tight moments, especially in the 7th game, won the match.

I wish it was that simple and that the loser would not be called a choker or naive some other epithet and the winner would not be called dumb or lacking confidence or some other epithet...

Ah, thankfully, Miwa is playing better now. We might be spared the wisdom of the experts...

I also forgot to mention that given the way Hayata is playing, her wrist should be amputated by now according to the experts - just saying.

Harimoto needs to play better or all we will hear is about how the dumb players are holding back the JNT with their dumb way of winning matches...

You could tell who had experience playing at that level and who didn't. But it's about time Milos levelled up, his contemporaries are Sora and Felix, and he was beating Boll before them lol.

Good luck with that. Its ultimately the bane of chopping, the equipment you use to play that way comes with its own limitations for doing other things.

When Qiu Dang walked into the court, I couldn't recognize him because he was not wearing his headband lol.

Well Miwa's quality and selection of attack and placement went way up in the 4th game. Probably a combination of that and expedite pressure on Honoka made it moot. But like I said, these are the limitations of choppers when they play consistent attackers. The Harimoto siblings have an amazing...

Its interesting how the expedite has affected Miwa. She is playing the same way on both her serve points and on Honoka's serve points. It will be interesting if this mindset change gets it done. No coach to remind her of the nuance.

Always entitled. I used to hope for it too just to keep diversity in the game. But this new ball... well it probably helps the choppers stay in rallies but it doesn’t do much other than that.

Unfortunately, Honoka is a chopper and a chopper is a chopper, no matter how much ability they have. If the attacker is more consistent and able to hit the right shots, the chopper is always on the back foot. Of course the attacker being able to do this is the open question. But Miwa's game...

I know this may annoy some people but why does "dumbness" do so well? Is it because it is a prerogative of fandom to be abusive towards players performing under the fastest and highest pressure conditions? Or are the players really "dumb"? Nameless anonymity encourages ridiculous statements.

Flexible and soft are both options in my experience. Anything that increases the ball holding feeling. Flexible will probably give the best result away from the table.if the blade is faster but soft and stiff can give good results closer to the table.

Yeah and after @Takkyu_wa_inochi wrote that, she went on to win the WTTC singles bronze in 2025. Its fun to speculate but it is good to remember some of the inconvenient facts for such narratives. One close loss to a player who by all accounts had a tournament performance that was unlikely for...

Yeah, 18 year olds are calcified fish, they have no chance to take steps towards new behaviors, their past is their destiny. How one lost can't show progress, it is just the loss that matters.

Yeah he gets zero credit for coming back from 0-2 down because he lost.

Put Zyre on both sides of a Garaydia ALC. This is likely where the rubber will stay for the long term as I work on optimizing my technique for it. On this blade, it is clearly in my zone and I get good spin. I need to find the right practice to optimize the kaboom shots and the touch shots...