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You've gone off on a rant and missed the point again (no surprises!). I wasn't using one match as an example. You even made my point for me by referring to Juan Liu who ran through everyone at Westchester 3 months running (not one match). This is extremely unlikely to happen in any other sport...

Er ....... I'm not sure we're you going with this?? Lol. The point here is that the gap between men and women in table tennis is significantly narrower than in most other sports.

It was He Ai Ge who beat Yinchi Fang. Fang outranks her by over a 100 points. She does look a hell of a player though and it wouldn't surprise me if her ranking improved over the next year. I saw her play in 2018. It might have been against a Japanese player in a women's U21 Final. She played a...

Ironically,there isn't a female player ranked in the top 100 in chess at the moment! Hou Yifan probably could make top 50 if she was more active but apart from that, Ju Wenjun is the only other female player close (chess and table tennis are my passions!). You can only guess but I believe that...

I partially agree with you. Where we disagree is in how big the difference is. I think it's much less significant than you do.

Walther was very competitive in that match but comfortably outplayed. He certainly didn't hold back. You're right of course, that rankings do matter. Juan Liu, even at 33, is still a hell of a player. She's beaten Lily Zhang (ranked 26 in ITTF), 4 times in 4 and won comfortably each time so who...

I saw that match and she was the aggressor. There was no difference in strength and speed! Both played well with Hazin being slightly the better. Jiaqi Zheng was always on the front foot against male opponents and quicker than most of them. The physical differences were irrelevant much as they...

She won comfortably as she seems to against all U.S. based male players. Gorak has been as low as 52 in ITTF rankings, whilst she peaked at 94 in the women's rankings. Furthermore, she recently annihilated Yijun Feng who is twice runner up in the U.S. Nationals men's singles. Then factor in that...