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I agree on that and I know Japan are the favorites. But the Harimoto vs LYJ match would have had LYJ as the favorite if it happened in the MS. So to me it was always a toss up.

Harimoto returns to Felix his zeio bronze medal on bended knee with this loss. Since Harimoto is the favorite vs CCY, and Lin vs Shinozuka, the next match between Togami and Kao is the decider.

This isn't a book where you can look at the cover and know how it will end...

Sweden never really had a chance, but that win by Lee ends the match right there as Bergand can't win a match at this level even with her best play.

Yes the doubles is big for both teams as it gives the ace room to play with. Both LYJ and Harimoto can beat each other so doubles will go along way towards reducing their pressure and giving them positive motivation.

This is not true even in 2016 or 2020 or 2012, a lot comes down to the draw.

Rachel and Amy have more doubles.experience together and Sally is oft-injured.

Two coaches that Amy works with, Gao Jun, the current US women's coach, and Lily Yip, the lady who is named on the club where Amy trains at and where her personal match coach also works, both use short pips as penholders so Amy has decent exposure.

I have those things already. Since it is on the internet, it has to be true.

Tomorrow, two nuclear matches in the MT QF - Germany vs Sweden and Japan vs Taiwan. On the women's side, all the matches look boring. Maybe US and Germany might have some intrigue?

Took a tad bit longer than expected to get there but Sweden beats Hong Kong. Sweden is one more player from being a formidable team, either Bergand gets a better level or someone strong comes up in their system. A lefty would be ideal, maybe if Ekholm was younger and hadn't retired lol...

Yes, but a leg cramp is not an injury lol, so I feel for Doo. Bergand should lose pretty quickly and the question becomes whether Lee Ho Ching can loop chop and variation or not...

So the question of the moment - how good is Lee Ho Ching vs chop?

After the match reverses, Kallberg gets injured somehow at 2-2, 6-4. EDIT: But she perseveres and wins at deuce and gives her team a chance.

Doo Hoi Kem taking care of Kallberg - Bergand isn't strong enough to win in singles so DHK would practically close out the match with a win here.

C. Kallberg is really becoming a power house for Sweden, I would never have believed it if you told me that HK wouldn't win that doubles match easily. HK only managed to win the 3rd game at 9 and still have to win two more to restore normalcy.

Why? Isn't the disruptor and the finisher a classic doubles pairing?

They can but it doesn't change anything and it ruins the team dynamics. It will be interesting to see whether they can develop another good doubles combination to free her up because Shin is also their best doubles player.

Yeah, it is very hard for them to get anything out of singles vs China, so they have to play their best doubles teams and hope to get lucky in at least one singles match. But as far as I remember, this has always been the Korean team in Teams formats, sometimes they had Choi in the JJH slot or...

Germany uses QD and TB in doubles and Dima in singles - given they had been prepping a doubles team of PF and DO with QD in singles for a long time, it says something about how they felt about the pecking order and that they don't trust ITTF rankings unfortunately.