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This was a fun tournament. 1) Again great to see that Fan's superhuman rallying abilities have returned. 2) Timo reminds us that as long as you are an athlete, you can still spin to win. 3) Alexis Lebrun reminds us why he should be playing singles over Gauzy. 4) Quadri reminded me how much he...

Let me know how it goes, I am thinking about buying one as well, seems genuinely interesting.

It is clear both players were not at 100% throughout the match. So for me, WCQ is the favorite but at least we have Fan getting back to his true power level. So that when Quadri beats him, there will be no excuses. ;) ;)

You sound like Fang Bo : he argues with good logic that for sound technical forehand players, there is always time to play a forehand so focus your stance in being able to play a backhand. It's really funny that when I play, people who don't understand my game think my backhand is a control...

How do you effectively block with pace with Skyline 2? Is Skyline 3 better for this?

Haven't tried that much stuff, still working out a few things. Unboostef DHS stuff is still new, but for my attack first playing style it makes sense, there is work to be done for the countering but I will give it a run for a while.

Nah not hoping for WCQ to lose, hoping to see the two players on top of their game. More like Asian Games finals even if Fan was beginning to fall then already.

The best part of this tournament so far is seeing a normal Fan Zhendong again. Looking forward to tomorrow. You were missed, FZD!

No, it is not strawmanning, strawmanning means something very different from what you think it means. No it is not moving the goal posts either, because the point is why one should take any athlete's statement over lots of evidence. It is called pointing out that you are not even...

I think looking at the punishment that the Chinese put their players through to develop extremely fine and consistent looping and placement machines, Harimoto still has ways to go to up the physicality of his game to catch up to where Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong will be in a few years. Or even...

What Takkyu meant is that there are likely contexts in which Chen Meng spoke humbly about her gold medal so acting like what the athlete said (or anyone says) without the context of the whole achievement is giving one perspective too much privilege (or is Ito no longer the only Olympics singles...

The point about comparing the potential of a 17 year old to the potential of a 23 year old is too obvious to state and the point about 23 being well past zeio's achieve-or-retire age is well stated as well. Unfortunately, winning arguments is more fun than dispassionately presenting facts.

It feels to me like too much competition and should ideally be replaced by internal training. But that said, no one knows how to really do internal training other than the CNT.

Not a penholder, two winged shakehand looper. I coincidentally just tried my first sheet of blue sponge DHS rubber for Hurricane 3 and all I can say is wow, what a livelier sponge topsheet combination. I am going to start with two sheets of Skyline 3 then I might end up where you are since...

Okay. Your stance is irrelevant to whether Gauzy or Alexis should be selected on the basis of who is a better medal hope for France in singles.

I am using Skyline 2 unboosted right now and for pure spin, I prefer it to Hurricane 3. Well the spin is one thing, but the pushes and the control on touch shots and pushes is amazing. Does anyone know how Skyline 3 compares? I am thinking a bit about looking for something faster for...

Not sure how the goalposts are being moved, the debate is Gauzy vs Alexis for a singles, there is no debate over Felix. Since nothing in your argument speaks yo that, not worth responding beyond what I have already written.

Sidespin from Felix. It is how he keeps the ball low sometimes and it is hard to counter, especially from his backhand.

Thanks for answering my question, though as we all know, your position ia not driven by his performance vs Gauzy but by purported negative influence on Felix. To me there is no doubt he should be playing over Gauzy.

Obviously a WTTC bronze match is bigger, but I take this match. Amazing given the level the opponent was presenting. Obviously there was a gift from Alexis, but Liang made more than his fair share of amazing shots to save this especially at the 9-9 point.