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Did he tell him to rock his back and scream at the top of his lungs too? And maybe grunt before the opponent served?

Zeio is offended that people can criticize celebrities. By this standard, his criticism of Ishikawa is just sexist drivel.

Suh isn't popping the ball up on her forehand chop and SYS has to actually use more power - she can't win with 50% loops.

Suh has always had a pretty strong offensive game but her play in this event is her most impressive in years.

Nah, the best player in Europe is Polcanova.

JYS wants to get out of quarantine...

Well someone had to lose between Solja and Feng...

Wow I didn't know it started this early - Kasumi lost to a chopper!

I used to travel a lot to play tournaments. Sometimes I would end up in a "hostile" club and have to play one of their up and coming juniors. Then the coach and the crowd would be cheering them against me. Or I would travel to Vegas for a tournament and play against a junior who was being...

I have experienced that too. There is a guy who I have played quite a few times ( a friend of sorts) who trash talks while playing even in tournament matches. It takes me off my game but I am determined to conquer it when we meet again.

How can anyone forget Tenergy and Dignics?

Intimidating your opponent doesn't require you to look at them. The loudness of the celebration is very annoying and you know that it is coming whenever you lose a point. In a game like TT, the close proximity to your opponent makes such loud celebrations on a consistent basis more annoying...

The point is that tension can be released after every point and that the celebration mechanism is designed to intimidate the opponent. Nadal may bounce the ball more on critical points but he isn't going to scream so loudly that it is obnoxious to his opponent. Harimoto is doing more than just...

Losing to good and illegal serves is part of the game. Playing someone with good legal serves helps you get over it faster. As you get better you see the ball better. The biggest issue is learning to topspin long and half long serves. And most serves below a certain level are long and half...

So we should just allow people to do anything that potentially improves how well they play?

"Nobody really knows" but I can tell you that feisty ex-pro players I have spoken to have said they would find a way to upset someone who did what Harimoto was doing, and would consider taking action themselves if the umpire didn't. It's easier to avoid being upset by stuff if you are a much...

Yeah, my wife recognizes Harimoto when he is on screen. Whether that is a good thing or not is up to each person to decide...

Yes, he has toned it down a bit - but it can still be annoying. And until the ITTF regulates it, it is within his right to do it. What I don't understand is why people are vilifying differences in opinion?

IT isn't this straightforward. Why do people like Ma Long and Xu Xin start choing more when they play Harimoto even if they don't cho as much when playing other people? It's one thing to cho during the tough matches but it is another to cho much more because you know your opponent's...

They decided to address it at the junior level. They thought about how to do it at the senior level but couldn't separate the grunters like Serena Williams from the singers like Azarenka and Sharapova.