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Trying to see whether I can come out of retirement or not. Let's see... but I might realistically be 6 months away if even possible. Patience... But I have decided that for my style Hinoki is the only way to go.

Poor Ito, she is delusional. She must listen to Tony Table Tennis who has pointed out that she is only as good as Cheng I Ching, who Ito lost to and who Ding Ning cleaned the floor with. This despite having beaten Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen twice and being 8 years younger than Cheng.

I completely disagree. In fact the second and third games were masterful displays in fighting when you are trying to beat someone you agree you are supposed to lose to. He managed to make LGY start missing and lose confidence. He just couldn't close our the 3rd game. If he had the match...

He is a better player now no doubt. And this is Xu Xin not one of the others. Xu Xin has a structurally unsound game. The problem is that you have to play him often enough to have a chance of exposing it. But I am 95% sure that if Timo was on CNT and younger, he would be beating Xu Xin too.

LGY was a late bloomer and lost 3 straight WJTTC finals. When you have Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong, that kind of player seems like a poor stepchild. LGL always admired LGY's work ethic and LGY had his breakthrough before LGL left at the marvelous 12 event. So given your...

I don't think it would have mattered. That was too good.

How the CNT play so many events and do well is an question. That said, I have always felt that Xu Xin's loss to Fang Bo in 2015 WTTC was partly a result of playing too many events. Ito may have had a bit of that this time too, though of course it is easier to blame fatigue when you don't win...

Watching the Korean doubles' teams facing each other - who is the Korean national singles and doubles champ? We often get some video/reporting on the Chinese national champs and the Japanese national champs but not on Korea - wondering why, especially with this new competitive generation...

And my point is that Hoi Doo Kem was good enough to beat Ito as well, so maybe Ito needs to fix losing to Hong Kong and Taipei before focusing on China.

Which was the point of my post. But for some reason you missed it only to get it later.

Now we are getting references to games played when both players were in their wombs. The point is simple- people were expecting great things from Ito given how she beat Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning and Zhu Yuling. Maybe you can explain to me when and where Cheng beat that level of player. Of...

Now the excuse is injury but the truth is that Cheng is actually improving injury or no injury. But acting like Cheng beating Ito is not an upset is pretty ridiculous but Tony, who I usually respect, is trying to play it cool.

Of course she is a good enough player. So was Hoi Doo Kem. But Cheng doesn't have the achievements that Ito has. Let's stop confusing them. When Hirano played Cheng at World Cup in 2016 in Philly, it was ugly to watch. Cheng is a very good player. Special footwork and forehand Much...

She has not been in the top 10 or 5 way longer than Ito. I am not sure how what I said upset you but there is no need to invent facts to make bad points. It is easy to Google and check the ITTG ranking and see that Ito has been closer to the top far longer, remember that Ito plaued 2016...

When was the last time Cheng beat someone on the CNT?

Her coach uses pips too. Doesn't hurt.

Ito-hype train on pause for now - no point in beating the Chinese if you can't beat Hong Kong and Taipei.

Harimoto has lost to a lot of German players this year - I wouldn't be in a rush to make him the favorite vs Franziska without some hesitation. Rosskopf seems to understand his game. That said, push comes to shove, I would pick Harimoto.

He was playing in the Superleague at a good level recently hence the disappointment. You seem to have missed this.

Not sure whether the original commentary was racist (sometimes success makes you the target of unfair commentary) but in general, most of the world is full of bigots and you cannot tell someone is a bigot unless you really know them as some people disguise it well in public. I know there was...