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WCQ has better short game which is why he fared better than LSD, but WCQ relied way too much on illegal serves at crucial moments - that shielded a lot of his weaknesses in topspin defence and rallying unlike FZD who worked extremely hard on those (since he didn't rely on illegal serves)

I thought LSD would have better defence, but no, Hugo's loopkills just ripped a hole in his defence. It is just way too hot to handle. The way he was hitting today was out of the world. LSD couldn't shutdown Hugo's game because he doesn't have the short push capabilities to do so. Players like...

Ma Long is about to retire anyways. He probably would have struggled if Hugo was hitting hard with accuracy like today. Remember Ma Long lost to similar hard hitters Patrick Franziska and Lee Sang Su.

No one on the CNT hits as hard as Hugo. The only solution is more short game control training to shutdown the 1st attack completely. But none of the youngsters can short push as well as Ma Long or even ZJK.

Those BH and FH loopkills were just insane. I think these have to be the highest quality loopkills since speed glue got banned. Seriously some of them look as powerful as Ryu Seung Min's FH in Athens 2004. And the bonus was that he wasn't missing much when loopkilling at these kinds of quality...

Hugo playing like a two wing Ryu Seung Min now! Speed and topspin rally capabilities don't matter if you can just kill the opponent with your loops that are undefendable.

Wow Hugo actually executing on the strategy of short game control + big af 1st attack to prevent any sort of counter.

This is one of my fav BH serves to loop against. Against FH pendulum you need to BH loop by going along with the sidespin. Incoming ball is spinning clockwise (from your perspective), you should ride and add to the clockwise spin. For under vs top adjustment it is the same like other loops. Make...

Pretty hard because LSD has much better defence than WCQ. But if LSD cannot deal with the quality of Hugo's 1st attack he is in a bit of trouble.

LSD has way too good of a block and countering game that will neutralise a bigger percentage of Hugo's attacks than what he likes. Also because LSD has smaller and faster strokes than Hugo, it is pretty difficult for Hugo to outrally LSD in fast close table topspin battle imo. LSD will win...

Spot on for WCQ. Also he relied too much on his hidden serve + 3rd ball for his entire career so he wasn't as well trained or experienced in the rally stage as compared to someone like FZD. We are also not sure who will be the other player, LJK or LSD. Like what you mentioned, Hugo would much...

Yep - LSD is faster but Hugo much more powerful. If Hugo challenges the LSD hook serve this could be very interesting!

Yes but his defence still sucks...

WCQ's pendulum serve is definitely not clean. Lin Shidong's pendulum serve is way cleaner than his. The ball clearly goes missing in so many highlights on the way down.

There's no need to accommodate those who do this anyway. Why have rules if the rules are to be bent to suit people who don't care about the rules? By the way the head obscuring the ball hurts the timing of the receiver significantly.

Wang Manyu vs Kuai Man was a mystery - after being 2-1 up in sets and leading 8-3, she proceeds to make all sorts of weird easy mistakes on the FH loop and the loop movement starts to turn weird. Something wrong on her FH rubber?

Harimoto's BH opening loop against underspin has been so stale and lukewarm. I counted points where ppl pushed long to his BH with pace, and he pretty much never wins those points. The pattern is push long and then crush his BH opening loop. Hugo did it with extreme prejudice for so many points...

On the other hand, WMY's hook serve is always perfectly legal and still highly effective! It is my counterpoint to ppl who claim to all hook serves are illegal cheating. You don't have to throw it so much into your body lol.

Every single LSD hook serve is illegal. If I were his opponent, challenging the hook serve is just a free point imo. Not sure why his opponents aren't doing it more often.

Yeah if you're not young or athletic, double inverted is a liability in TT imo...