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Feel free to define career as reasonably as you want, you will realize that you are just arguing for arguing sake. LYJ is 22 i believe but has been a profession for at least 6 years, maybe even more. The way TT works, many juniors are on a professional path when they are already playing for...

He explained what he meant in full detail. Lots of players have struggled to beat the Chinese in close matches and in that regard, Gauzy is not unique. I suspect if he didn't train with the Lebruns, he would struggle more against them like everyone else.

1. Because the last 2-3 years isn't much of his career, especially for someone who was a notable junior. And our arguments didn't rest on the entirety of his career, our arguments were trying to understand how one got to the idea that much of his career was the last few years. So what we...

You are quite right that the recent trend shouldn't qualify as much. Unless we want to start redefining words.

So Gauzy is 29 or so, maybe 30. He was a WJTTC top prospect in 2011 . He was at the top of Europe un 2016/2017. How do you define much of his career?

I watched many of those matches. Honestly, Gauzy had the same experience many players had playing the Chinese.Koki Niwa, Lee Sang Su. The old elo system made it easier to rank and measure strength. Gauzy is nit a specially tragic figure in the era of Chinese domination. That the Lebruns have...

Let's apply your logic to other top European players like Anton Kallberg or Qiu Dang or Darko Jorgic or Anders Lind. If Gauzy was #1 or #2 in France, why would he be very different from them? What about Kiril? Again other than a few spectacular losses in recent months, what makes Gauzy's...

At a certain point, people will believe whatever they want to believe even when they have no evidence to explain why they believe it.

I haven't read the part of the thread where you reviewed most of Gauzy's career. Like I said, Gauzy was a junior when I started playing TT seriously so I am familiar with most of his career, including watching marches when he played the WJTTC. So I am still waiting to understand their matches...

Without a list of matches, this discussion is pretty much blowing hot air repeatedly. It is weird how the people who disagree are listing matches and the people who agree just keep relying on pushing their narrative without any obligation to substantiate it with some match results.

Again, as a career description, as opposed to the last one year or so (which even then requires selective memory), can you please substantiate your claim with said matches, or just agree that it is okay for people who disagree to also have a reasonable case?

You keep bringing up this parallel vs diagonal thing, but you are a good enough player to know that playing the parallel places demands on your anticipation while playing the diagonal reduces those demands. His footwork is not good enough to adjust to consistently playing on the parallel. I...

But this is his teammate Felix and in the last 1 year - as an apt career description, we need to hear it happening over his career not just recently to LJK or Felix or Alexis. For some reason losses to players like Milosz Redzminski ( an awesome player by the way) get forgotten because they...

So where is your list of the situations that he has supposedly had that I am not remembering because my memory is poor?

Jeon Jihee looks way past Zeio retirement...

Can you please list this long list of close calls that Gauzy has supposedly had throughout his career, especially against Chinese opposition?

You guys are making it sound like Gauzy losing these recent matches is about his playing level. Gauzy is a perennial top 20 player if you use ELO, let us not use new ITTF rankings to make bad arguments, let us not confuse the new rankings. He has lost a ot of matches to all kinds of players...

All I can say is grow up, Gauzy's motivations are not questionable in any moreal senae of the word. They are exactly what many top players deal with when deciding where to take their game. Nothing you have said is anything new or important. Truls beat Wang Chuqin and then won the silver medal...

Yes, #2 for me after Quadri Harimoto. But I am clearly biased lol.