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I wonder what Tony and the table tennis coaches he knows in China have to say about this "choke" from Harimoto. I remember they had a lot to say about Wang Chuqin consecutive run of points lost against ZQH a few years ago.

Does China have a similar system with different salary tiers for their players? Do you have any insider info? I knew that ML/XX and the other big stars used to earn more from the CSL, which is to be expected, but I didn't know how it worked for monthly renumeration and benefits.

Beautiful diversity. Tony would love this.

Harimoto is not always the nexus around which decisions on whom to pick are made. IfAnd the onus to defeat Harimoto is on Wang Chuqin and Lin Shidong. They're the ones that'd play Harimoto and Matsushima. After all, they're the top two players. Liang Jingkun is there for stability, leadership (...

Are they still dating lol

XP has largely been disappointing, that I agree with. But don't get ahead of yourself with Ruibo, he hasn't shown that extra finesse / X-factor that WCQ's game possesses. He was lost in the matches against Felix and LYJ. That's a bad sign.

Surprised mr k-99 is mute about that. Actually not suprising tbh. Turns out the Japanese are free to take locker room breaks too, who would've guessed that 😳😧😮

Wang should have at least 10 matches against Lin. They've been going up against each other since their junior years.

Life throws out so many strange twists, turns and outcomes after leading people on for so long. The Harimoto siblings were thought of and heralded as the ones to finally break the Chinese stronghold on the sport for good, and establish a new dynasty. But looking at the results they've got, and...

More matches for the top Chinese against atypical opponents trend easier generally, there'd be the once in a while scare of course. But a 80%+ WMY/SYS is beating anyone 9/10 times

I'm confident in form Wang + Lin beats in form Lebrun brothers. I think China has no choice but to play WCQ in the 3 disciplines. Yes, he'll be spent and beat up. But he'll have enough time to rest before and after the Olympics. Doing otherwise is practically giving up whichever event he skips.

All these "call FZD" chants are funny to me. It's quite obvious that the national team is in the past for him, and he just wants to play profitable enjoyable TT without the burden of the CNT on his neck. I say the CNT give him the cold shoulder and focus on getting LSD or even LJK/ZQH (in the...

Just to be clear, the claim Tony made was that during their young years, WCQ was scheduled to face YZY in a regular friendly match, And the coach told Wang that if he loses, the team would have to do exercises/push-ups. Sure it's a strange thing to propose, and there are questions of conflict...

Lin Shidong loses to anyone playing inspired table tennis these days. Things are not looking good because I foresee his ranking dropping drastically over the course of this year. Who knows what his ranking is gonna prior to the Olympics. Who plays second singles? I don't think CYY's performance...

Didn't watch the match but surprised to hear Yu Ziyang is coaching now? I'm astonished he came back to the team as a coach given the "repression" allegations we've heard from Mr Agent.

Sabine Baratheon is up to the task.

I'm not sure the coaches agree with you though.

I think people are taking the Hashimoto-philia too much. Granted that she'd shown up and shown out in Contenders and star contenders, She hasn't matched Hayata's performances in the majors. She's still far behind Miwa and Hina in the pecking order. And Ito should be ahead of her if she finds the...

It's just Japan - Taiwan cooperation. The Japanese play themselves till they're spent in pursuit of points that don't matter. Tony gets to rehash his talking points every other month.

Wang's head to head against Truls is 9-1 or so. The loss in the Olympics was just Wang having a below par day at work + the circumstances around the Olympics imo, because we've seen many situations when they're both playing well and Wang wins. Shidong is a special case. He looks vulnerable...