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I don't know whether that is balance so much as the usual result vs Wang Chuqin.

He used to play in French League as well, he is probably somewhere in Europe playing and training this year, anyone who acts like Eugene wasn't a top player who just couldn't play for Canada in the kinds of ITTF events that would have made him famous is not really serious, if he had been able to...

Because you don't watch (enough) table tennis. This guy was the best table tennis player in the Americas for a while, he used to either win or come second in the US Open almost every year even with all those German and Japanese people coming in. Old ITTF rules didn't let him play for Canada...

Trying is a relative term. But I agree with you on some point. He missed a shot in the first game that he made in the third game, but he also took many aggressive shots that he didn't have to take and I am not entirely sure he would have taken those shots against a better player either with...

The Japanese guy did it in best of 5 and he couldn't beat Ma Jinbao, it would have been interesting in best of 7.

He is slower now, but he has always been a touch player relative to his level. Eugene has dominated NA for over a decade and a half, virtually all the time I have watched TT, you have to make him play physical to see his physical, he wants to junk you to death.

Canadian 1900 is not the same as US 1900, Canadian 1900 might be really 2000‐2100 USATT.

Agreed, I stil ln remember Hao Shuai coming for NA Teams in 2013, and it was the first time I saw 2500 players unable to return serves as if they were 1600 players.

Nah, Eugene has always had a lazy looking style, it takes a high level player to bring out his best game. Even when he was younger, he looked a lot like this, though what younger means is relative.

Of course Eugene was never trying, but if you watch Eugene, this is his style, you have to hit a certain level of speed and consistency to make him look like he is trying, if you can't even return the serve, what is the point?

Japanese Champs for Hari.

Some of it is style based but I hear you. It is hard to know how much these world class guys don't miss unless you play them. But it was interesting to see Eugene consistently loop lill the ball at will when he wanted to do so without really trying. And then able to just serve to the guy and...

I would go with Felix, Dang and Jorgic. Calderano has to catch fire though he tends to have a mental edge over Jorgic because he moves better.

Canada.

Oh, you can watch the whole match, he definitely was trying. I have played Eugene before and trying doesn't really matter against certain kinds of players (Eugene has a very variation and mental effing style that you can keep respectable only if you play at a high/fast mental level), if Eugene...

What happens when Eugene tries to win every point vs a roughly USATT 2200 player...

It's amazing how the actual results tell such a different narrative from the eye tests and the internal narratives that drive us towards "excuses". Looking at this, we still have another 4-8 years before a realistic assessment of Harimoto is possible.

The semi between Bernadette and Jia was equally insane.

His blocking has always been crazy (which is why he and Dang like to play each other), but the backhand countertopspin went to another level. At some point, the Freitas match, Freitas probably thought he was playing Timo lol.

It isn't easy to spin topspin consistently short even when you are Timo Boll, so if it is happening over and over again, then look at what is leading to the shot. Blocking the ball by covering it early tends to keep it on the table and that is the beginning of wisdom.