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Something to work on, something to work on. You can't build Rome in a day, no matter how hard you work. Everyone has gaps. How you shield and protect them is what keeps you hard to beat.

Yeah but I think with the crowd he would have handled all those guys. He played at that level.

Yes the statement was made before he won those things. I just find it sad that people continue to pretend these young players are not working on their games. If anyone told me that the day would come that Truls would get LinDhifong to block/counter backhand openers off the table, i would have...

Both players needed more time and opening into a Truls counter could loae the point instantly. I don't know what you were watching, that looked like a world #1 to me who just struggled with thr home crowd advantage of his opponent but showed why he has the heart of a champion. Truls had to...

Amazing way to end the match.

One of the worst world championship silver medallists of time and a guy with a game the Chinese team has solved just won a grand smash. Well done.

Truls needs to win this game. This is the best I have ever seen Truls backhand. A ton of hard work. Still not the modern textbook but extremely effective.

This will bring back musclepong.

I what you mean better, it is confusing because Xu Xin is still playing not just internationally.

It is a war of words, are those things really physical chemical or other "treatment", treatment being that which changes the playing characteristics of the rubber?

Chen Qi isnt on the team? XX could be for aure but he is older too, at the age od traditional retirement from CNT so no big questions there. Not everyone can age likr ML. I agree on FZD, I hopw his reward is on earth and not in heaven.

And of course, at that age for ZJK and ML (and XX), Wang Hao and Wang Liqin and Ma Lin and Chen Qi were still playing, largely shouldering responsibility in front of them... FZD, XX and ML have retired and WCQ and LSD are now the team leaders. No protection from the likes of ZQH, XYB, or XF.

His team lost all their matches. Looks like all the importa couldn't deliver a match.

https://www.youtube.com/live/hQ7Bn0_-XnU?si=Wt1NhCMGfx6bblLT Tanaka just beat Hao Shuai. Harimoto live vs Jang... maybe this is why they both lost early in Sweden...

Mostly for one of two reasons: 1. Some people like to follow rules and boosting is against the rules (or their intent) even if it is hard to test for and not directly tested for. In this case boosting can give a rubber properties it does not have when sold commercially and without special...

That'd probably a function of it being in Sweden. The European Teams champs in 2023 (or 2024) was similarly high quality, they just know how to set up the audio and coverage to give you great feeling of the action on TV and th rest probably follows to some degree from that anf the popularity...

There are definitely guys in/from Japan, China and Korea at a higher level than Dudu. Kaii Yoshida was the normal answer even when he wasn't on tour and was playing in a league in Europe.

Does it really matter? Not speaking to you in particular because you already know this but this nonsense is completely unfair to the players.

Fan Zhendong was not world #1 until he was 21. Fan is also arguably the greatest prodigy of all time (between him and Harimoto), so there is no shame in not being Fan Zhendong, but it is pretty ridiculous to expect a 20 year old to be the best/highest ranked player in the world and have no gaps.

I love that you brought this up, it is sitting right there in plain sight yet some people refuse to see it.