Rules are the same for all players. Olympics is not WTT event. I think Aruna was going to sue WTT for the new rules, I do not know how it finished. Anyway of course it would be great to see FZD fight internationaly but nowadays you have to choose wheter you prefer to play in the league (earing...
Not likely. If he comes back, he will have to go through preliminary rounds in few tournaments to gain points. Probably also he could face another chinese player in 1 round so it could cost a lot of points for current no 1 an no 2. Another thing is he stated before retirering from WTT that he...
As I wrote earlier, the confidence Sora shows can be constructive, but the problem is that he assumes he can approach the table and destroy his opponent with his shots. When the opponent becomes resistant, instead of finding a new strategy, Sora gets offended and tries to show that he can still...
The problem is also that he goes into a match without any respect for his opponent. The referee waits to flip the coin because he happens to be tying his shoes right now. There are plenty of situations like this. I get the impression that nothing interests him besides winning. Confidence is...
Considering his skills meaning footwork, power, serves, cofidence he has almost everything maybe more variations should be useful. So he does not have to improve much to beat anyone. All that he needs is to calm down and maybe read some books of Stoics and behave on certain level.
What he needs is psychologist. I have watched most of his matches, when things don't go his way, he looks like he blames the whole world. Anyway I understand how frustrating can be when you cannot properly read spin on serves.
There's some truth to that, but consider that Doo completely dominated her in the first three sets. Of course, Winter tried to play more FH, attack first, and that started to pay off. However, considering her age, I doubt she'd be as fast and able to control FH across the whole table. Generally...
I think her dominance will not last long. Anti is somewhat a forgotten rubber, and for years no top player in the world used it, which is why players learned more to play against pips. Recently, Mladenovic brought it back into play, and many players unfamiliar with this rubber had huge problems...
Good explanation. Just to mention there was one crutial point in the 4th set. Ito was leading I think 9:4 and Samara played very strong BH and FH to finish the ball. They were both laughing. Samara thought nice point at least this would be good to rememeber and started playing very relaxed. It...
Like somebody said in the past "just retired". Who is better player - of course Ito, but she needs to hire some mental coach. Also I cannot understand why she just can't play slower spinny from time to time. Risky shots are far less safer.
I completely do not understand the rule of wild cards. These Australian players would not pass even first round of qualification round. But these way they get more points just for participating.