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I understand how you feel. It isn't how the umpire interpreted it and the umpire was justified in their interpretation. It wasn't the umpire's fault that it was match point at 2‐2 in the team match when the incident happened.

It is easy to talk up anything. The proof of the pudding is in the play. Low heavy backspin (or any spin) is hard to attack period and the problem with doing it consistently also comes down to reading the spin and pace perfectly enough to be consistent not just on one shot but for multiple...

Okay. You can ask an international umpire about it. Misbehavior that affects opponent's play can be penalized without a warning, it is a judgment of intent and severity. There is no requirement to call a point where someone interferes with the ability of an opponent to play a let.

Okay. Are you a trained umpire by any chance?

In a sport where most top players are encouraged and groomed within training programs for professional or college aspirations by winning all the junior tournaments, it is always nice to see a player who just plays his way onto the team based on interactions with strong players without seeing...

I think Wong Chun Ting is one of the greatest and most inspirational stories in TT history.

I thought she was done, but somehow, Giulia hung in there and Sarah fell apart.

Will probably still be futile unless Gulia does something special but it was a good win.

I watched the highlights and the match turned on SYS thinking she could overpower Ayhika and the consistency of Ayhika's smash. That could easily have been Sun Yingsha's match under less pressure filled circumstances. But Ayhika had a match where she just saw the ball really well and smashed...

You can give points for misbehavior. The yellow card is not necessary, it is just an opportunity for the umpire to give a warning. You don't even have to warn a player before faulting them.

Again, when the player causes the disturbance, it isn't necessarily considered a let. A lot of it goes to intent, but there is rarely a good reason to make noise while the opponent is hitting the ball and if it is not accidental or a let, and it is stretching the definition of let to make...

No, you don't have to give warnings in table tennis for misbehavior. It is at the umpire/referee's discretion.

The umpire is allowed to claim that the talking/shouting to interfere with the opponent's shot is a foul. In table tennis.

Finally what I am saying about not giving lets is not something easily understood by pointing to specific items in the rules. If you read the rules as a whole and have spoken to experienced umpires, it is easier to see and something they will bring up when asked why they didn't replay a...

Again, the umpire is not allowed to just call a let because they feel like it. And the opponent is not allowed to hinder your hitting the ball. It is one of those things that isn't as consistently enforced as it used to be so when someone does it, they become the villain, just like umpires...

Yes, and that is the same way that many calls are initially wrong until they are brought to the attention of the umpire. My main point is that the umpire is not allowed to call for a replay. She could have maintained her original position that Zhou won the point. Generally umpires are...

If the disturbance comes from neither of the players, sure.

I have seen similar calls in tennis. Novak Djokovic once made noise when his opponent was about to hit the ball at Wimbledon and the umpire called it and the commentators complained just as some members here are complaining. Novak still won the match so oh well...

The ref should have called it. It is a problem when a player makes a noise either when the opponent is about to hit the ball or makes a noise irregularly that trails into the opponent's contact with the ball. It is unfortunate that it happened at match point but these are similar to the...

There are rules about how to proceed in such situations and unfortunately, umpires don't have the ability to order players to play let points on demands. If the umpire felt that a hindrance was caused by the actions of one of the players, the player doesn't get a let. The player loses the the...