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Well as Thom said, we will wait and see. I think that BH to BH exchanges may doom Harimoto, he isn't more powerful than Pitchford and Pitchford redirects really well. But Harimoto is getting older and 6 months in the life of a 16 year old is a lot and it has been over a year since those matches.

By every measure except prior head to head. Calderano, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan all know what it is like to have beaten Harimoto. Harimoto by any measure is a legit top 10 player. Pitchford by any measure other than a subjective eye test which I can grant some plausibility is not...

Hahaha. HT is the favorite is not an opposition response?

This misses my point completely while making it - my point is that if you want to compare apples to apples, use the same material to chop on both sides. Saying one stroke is more natural without adjusting for all the variables is mostly a version of supporting the conclusion you already had in...

Definitely possible, has happened before, but HT is still the favorite to me.

3 lefty-lefty matchups (TB-JM, J-JG, XX-EL) and one lefty-righty (MY-LGY) matchup in one set of matches.

The forehand chop actually gets more racket head speed than the backchop. There is little point in comparing a chop performed consistently with inverted rubber with a chop performed with long pips.

Dima and Walther in game 7 after Dima had 4 match points - wow...

I do. Pistej is great but what has he really won? JWJ is a CNT tier 2 threat and Korean #1/2. It is not an impossible result and Pistej is in great form as his victory over Fang Bo shows, but this is an upset.

The new ratings system repeatedly creates such "upsets".

We have a new Mr Game 7. Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, congrats!

LJY delivers a loud message to China with this win over WCQ.

None of the livestreams are working... thanks ITTF...

At this point, honestly, I am only impressed if she wins. And probably by 4-2 or better.

Hayata and Gu taking a mutual examination - winner passes, loser fails.

And that's all folks! One less event for Fan and Ding to worry about.

Fan and Ding in major trouble. Down 0-2 and down in game 3 as well.

Get good coaching. This has absolutely nothing to do with equipment. Try to make your contact more silent as a start on the forehand side.

Sucks. Really stupid.

ITTF continues to be clueless about these things.