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Great post, TWI. But whose track record is not terrible against all those players??? Mima Ito? Miu Hirano? Hina Hayata? My point is not that in some theoretical world that Hayata might have a better chance vs Zhu Yuling than Kasumi Ishikawa. My point is that people should stop blaming...

You keep missing the point - how many JNT players are repeatedly beating the Chinese? Ishikawa is to take the best arguments against her the worst of a bunch of losers. People should stop acting like she is a loser amongst a bunch of winners. She won exactly the same number of games in that...

To me there is nothing wrong with her usual schemes - the problem is that she doesn't have Ito's temperament where the misses are accepted as being necessary to support the style, knowing that it won't always be your day against the right level of player. If Hirano accepted the missing, she...

Ito's win got everyone's hopes up. It was simply the matchup between two people who have played the least and the JNT player that has been the least studied as a serious contender to the Chinese. Let's revisit Ito if she plays someone on the CNT again, especially LSW.

And I presume Hirano has it? Or Ito didn't just get lucky? This after the fact selective crowing is very unbecoming.

When was the last time that 3 different Chinese female players lost matches in a WTTTC event if ever?

The best teams are winning so the matches you will see will be better. I have been impressed by how hard the top players are being challenged.

I would say that under the old ranking system he would have broken the top 35 after this event and possibly the top 25. With the new ranking system he has to play more events but he is a good player. In the past he definitely was not this strong. It's that simple. I mean how many world tours...

Get a browser with VPN and watch from a country or continent that isn't banned. It might be a bit slower but it is better. Do beware as over time, the ITTF will sell more and more rights and this will make it harder to watch from more and more places.

You could be right though that being slightly taller is helping as well. I thought her face looked thinner.

Is it me or has Hirano lost quite a bit of weight?

That was a critical match as I could see Kim Song I winning two matches if she beat Ishikawa. Now, you are pretty sure that Ishikawa will win her second match if a miracle happens against Hirano and Ito.

There is also a fitness component. Pros train hard and work out their inner and outer quads. Don't expect to be able to do what they do without working out.

My compromise is that Korea should allow their opponents to pick the team with at least one from each part of Korea.

Yeah - Japan is the country most affected. I like the sentiment, but I think Koreans should allow their opponents to pick the team matches if they really want to do that.

By the way he didn't even change the kind of rubber or racket. He just changed something about a rubber he is so used to that he knows what it does inside out.

Not sure how. Variation in playing strength is more influenced by technique than equipment. How does this change that? What it really shows is that Timo and top players are human and that after close losses or when they don't like how their equipment feels, they change or like the rest of us.

Playing for Japan....

Compare the hustle in this match to the one at the Asian Cup though.

How he survived the second match point is a mystery to me... Look at the mirror game scores.... is this going to the wire or will someone fade...