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Yeah but this backhand serve was a backhand sidespin serve into the lefty short forehand. Which was doing exactly what his reverse serve did but with more control and faster backhand recovery. You don't lose 3‐1, 6-2 up with a history of choking and escape the label because it happened against...

The best match I have seen between them remains the ancient wjttc final lol. Their destinies still remain entangled IMHO and I wouldn't be surprised if Wang won the Olympic gold.

They got a massive event done on two tables. As crappy as the round robin rules were on ties, they deserve some credit.

Playing a player with injured form is much harder for pros who are used to the player than you realize because many of the signals you use to read the ball don't show up. But I would like to believe that Lin got more and more nervous as the match went on and couldn't even think objectively...

They probably saw Harimoto play Lin Gaoyuan and decided it wasn't worth the match.

Inability to adapt is part of choking, but there were some loss of form dynamics in play. There were quite a few forehands in that match that Ma Long hit without his lower body.

The Legend of Lin the Choker has been written into stone with this one.

Immediately his form comes back, Lin's quality returns as well.

What he is doing on touch is juat incredible.

You can do that on adrenaline when there is something to play for. The problem is likely in his left knee or there abouts. So he uses the backhand serve to reduce it but will go for what is available. Lin has the right strategy of playing to the middle but he isn't always hitting his spot. I...

Ms Long clearly injured, the commentators can't even tell those are injured player shots. Ma Long has lost his form and is just swinging and trying stuff to compensate for some injury that he obviously will not discuss.

I kinda nailed it lol. Epic final.

Sun Yingsha vs Wang Manyu is more interesting, that's an Olympic Gold preview. Who cares about these World Cup finalist has-beens? :P.

As an example, how much doubt was there that a 16/17 year old performing at the level of Fan Zhendong in 2013 would at some point be the greatest player of all time? Probably not much from people who are willing to say that Lin Shidong is going to be in the conversation...

A quote attributed to many people, from the Nobel prize-winning Quantum physicist Niels Bohr to legendary baseball player (and philosopher) Yogi Berra states: "It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."...

Seriously? The guy who was losing to FZD when they were juniors and who lost to 3 different players at the WJTTC? Who had to work his way onto the top team with years of religious training and the retirement of ZJK and who earned the nickname "hardest worker" from LGY? No, his "talent", if...

Today's loss by WCQ at the World Cup kind of closed the WCQ entry into this for me, others may still enjoy it. Any streak or period he wants, he has to start afresh. Maybe 2024 Olympics and 2025 WTTC.

The spin probably just wasn't there. Sometimes, under tension you are looking for spin but maybe ML just didn't contact the ball so great. It's not like many people not named Hugo are flicking WCQ's serves so he probably doesn't feel that a lot in matches.

I guess you forget he lost to Lee Sang Su just this year.

TT is in crisis and is funded in many countries by governments that will only pay for athletes with a serious chance of winning medals. Spreading around the medals to more athletes keeps more countries interested in investing in the sport.