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He has always been a nervous guy of sorts but has always performed well despite the pressure. Definitely better than the others, Lin and Liang visibly tremble even more. The other point worth noting is that they kept Ma Long from coming to Houston so that Fan could eon his first WTTC. He was...

He had a crisis in 2019. He talked about it quite a bit.

One of the things that I have found fascinating and not so much discussed is the influence of Wang Hao on Ma Long's game on general. Maybe I am completely speculating, but I feel that Ma Long has played with more balance and even in losses more confidence than before. Ma Long lost more but he...

Ma Long... wow.

How Omar makes this list is completely beyond me and how no CNT players are on this list given the criteria shows a bias somewhere, just not exactly sure why it is so transparent. Kallberg is clearly a machine, but he is a very special kind of machine with amazing speed, which for me is special...

Definitely, Guo YueHua stands in a special class. But arguably, it was before the modern developments of the backhand, it would be interesting to have seen him play in era of evolved backhand technique.

I made my point that opinion is not fact. If we can't even agree on the dictionary definitions of what facts are, then there is no need to discuss. I mean you have a right to your opinions but not a right to your facts. And there are no facts that show that Hayata has less potential than...

Wait, so based on facts widely accepted in China and Japan, who has played better the past 4 years, Hirano or Hayata? Based on facts widely accepted in China and Japan list all the players that are supposed to retire. Maybe facts has a different definition on China and Japan from the Western...

No, he is not, he is holding Hirano to the standard that zeio's famous Tieba users have set for her.

Waldner doesn't have that much competition unless we are focused only on the top of Grand Slams. It is easy to underestimate Waldner when you don't take into account *all* the medals that were not gold. Olympic Singles: 1992 Gold, 2000 Silver (2004 4th place) WTTC Singles: 1987 Silver, 1989...

That's the problem with comparing people at the highest level of an activity - even people that are far ahead of the rest of us can be made to look average by comparing them exclusively to people at that end of the bell curve, while forgetting that compared to the average joe in their sport...

There is as much money on the embedded side of the sport and TT also has some limitations as a spectacle. But I agree that people should stop just doing that has already been done, there should be some risk taking to get more people into the sport, including variants that may not be popular...

There is something to be said for winning key matches and events where the pressure is higher, so no not just world tours, World Championship matches, 3 times in a row, and only started winning after that player retired. But your view is also part of the full picture. Just as zeio's is. But...

Humility (partly feigned and partly motivational) is taken as literal truth. Is this the level of reasoning we are using here?

Harimoto is entiled to his opinion as are many others, and I can see the value in his opinion. It is always difficult to compare across eras, but just by every statistical metric we use to quantify careers in the modern era, ML is the GOAT. You can argue it away all you want, Harimoto is...

Look at Cheng I Ching today - playing great table tennis. Last year at WTTC 2023, she had a tremendous lost lead/choke vs Chen Xingtong that may have cost her a medal though she would have had to beat an out of form Wang Manyu to get it. But her heroic struggles should be celebrated, not just...

I thought that since he is playing Olympic singles that they would conspire to boost his ranking. But it is clear that they really believe he has a path to redeeming himself or a plan B. Or maybe they may get separation of nationality back into the Olympic draw. So no, I didn't feel he would...

Oh, most people can tell the difference between speculation and reality, I will trust their judgement and accept your right and mine to draw whatever conclusions we want. But my position has always been that Hayata, Hirano. Harimoto, Ito and Ishikawa are all players working hard and doing...

I think he needs these events for his Olympic seeding.

Hype her how so? She played well and lost as expected. I am surprised that FZD lost, things have really changed on CNT.