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Ma Long looks healthy. That is the most important thing. On the CNT they can all beat each other on any given day. But a healthy Ma Long just doesn't lose to foreigners for the most part. Both Ma and Wang are incredibly great frontrunners. Winning game 1 will be huge.

No that is not how it works. The only guarantees are that 1 and 2 are on opposite halves of the draw as well as 3 and 4. Whether 1 plays 3 or 4 or 2 plays 3 or 4 is determined at random.

With great power comes great responsibility...

Yeah Wang Chuqin will replacing him as #5. But he is still on the A team and ready to jump in should anyone retire or slip. Other than Xiang Peng, none of the other juniors are showing special promise.

Samsonov just beat two top CNT lefties in a row. Yet some of us want him to retire already and compare him to Fang Bo. Shaking my head....

I understand your desire to put the problem in a certain context but I think you are underestimating the need to assess and prepare for new threats in their specific context . If you are a causal thinker, as opposed to a statistical one, you will know that the reason why something happens...

All the people who can beat Ma Long are wearing Chinese or Chinese Taipei uniforms. That is my strong opinion.

CCY is really fast and efficient. And his strategy of pull Harimoto the middle and take the backhand out wide worked over and over like a charm. Something needs to change and it is not CCY.

Ito is pretty efficient and under control today. Not the typical performance - almost Chinese like.

It didn't come to pass...

Which again gives me a new level of respect for Adriana Diaz.

It was good until the story ended...

Ever heard of the Coronavirus? They aren't even shaking hands or signing scores at the end of matches.

America is a country where people want a strong perception of fairness and individual determination. There were arguments for a long time over how the last HPD wanted to select the 2nd and 3rd spots, so eventually, the criteria were changed to reduce discretion and increase the objectivity and...

Huijing was close to the same level as Liu in the early 2010s. Kanak would likely beat Xin if Nikhil's performance vs Xin says anything. That said, Nikhil and Xin were a good doubles pairing vs Wang Zhen and Hongtao Chen of Canada. So it is not a bad thing to have them together as Xin is...

Fun final but it would be nice of someone could at least challenge Cedric... that said many countries have dominant champs.

No problem. Maybe you missed that Xin beat Yijun already. But depends on which time you looked at the sheet I guess. But the women's side is interesting that two formerly retired penholders come back to make the national team. The kids largely didn't know what to do with them.

Given what you have posted above, you should have announced that the trials are over. Xin and Nikhil join Kanak on the men's side, Juan and Huijing join Lily on the women's side. The final matches won't affect the standings.

You're back at Lily?

I found an extra gear in my backhand today. Usually I stop on my topspin backswing with my handle pointing at the right wall, but I actually decided to take the extra risk of having the handle point towards where I Wanted the ball to go - it requires a grip switch which I am not always happy to...