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Florida hosted a lot of the US Opens on the past. It also has mild travel subsidies to encourage travel there though in the current economy such things might be gone. And of course Miami has become even more elite.

Felix had a chance. Darko did well as well. He is great and clearly the best but no one is unbeatable

I played a Giant RR this weekend - 8 matches yesterday (Saturday), 6 matches today (Sunday). Went 6-2 yesterday, losing 2-3 to two kids. the last match, against the better kid, taught me a couple of things that I thought I might take into today. Basically, since my coach is not around and...

Usually Asian players are focused on close to the table fast rally so Harimoto can take advantage of their time limitations close to the table with his efficiency. Wang is the one player who is fast enough and has enough time to study Harimoto to make this utterly uncompetitive though I...

Harimoto needs to go watch the tapes of Felix and Darko and reflect on whether his approach to stubbornly holding the table is worth it. The key thing that Wang has is the ability to redirect Harimoto's shots with early timing and high quality and this puts Harimoto on the defensive. But...

Hari-boy still trying to hold the table rather than go into the rally and give himself time. Let's see whether he can find any success doing this. His short game has to be perfect and so far it hasn't been.

Both Felix and Darko use sticky hybrid rubber on forehand so I don't think it was so much a strategy as just how they played. Harimoto's has also improved his forehand but whether that will make a difference, we will see. It has been a bad matchup for a while and the Sora match shows that it...

Obviously, as the foreigners get better, the repercussions have been relaxed. Everyone knows the expectation but if he doesn't win, it is not like they have serious alternatives. But this is WCQ vs Harimoto, which is for them about as good as it gets. Chen Yi vs ZYL is a bit meaningless in...

WCQ's recovery is better than LSD and even more importantly, WCQ is a lefty so he is just harder to read and can hit angles that Harimoto is not used to defending. If lefties were common in table tennis, righties would train those angles too and it would be far less of an issue.

Lebrun plays head games with his serves as well. He decided not to open that can of worms.

And they choked to prove you right and me wrong again... I need to retire...

That's the one reason why I wasn't in a rush to push for Harimoto but that said, look at what Felix and Darko did - we can hope. And Harimoto has shown an increase in forehand power and ability doing some new things - even his ability to serve long and get low enough to hit the Lin Shidong...

Kinda sad given Hugo's absence - thankfully, Euro Smash is coming...

Now the question can be asked: what may have been if Togami did not upset Harimoto at the WTTC lol...

Regardless of result, I was clearly wrong lol....

Watch the Anders Lind interview with TTD and don't take my word for it, take his lol.

Now we will really see the will power of Hari-boy. I think Hari is done.

This timeout reminds me of the timeout against Hugo at the World Cup - not a good sign.

Harimoto should get a yellow card for those extended delays heading to the table. It's clearly habitual and likely deliberate.