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No, but in many sports russian players compete with neutral flag. At the begining they were totaly banned.

I have been watching Sidorenko from some time, he was banned to play international stage due to war (he is russian). He play incredibly good, he has no fear and is very flexible. He also destroyed Duda few days ago. I think he is going to be top 20 soon.

I think it should be some injury, maybe he was not perfect last year, but made a statement with the 2 big comebacks.

I predict the final between Hugo and Felix, although I wish Sora to win. Anyway no chinese in final is a big surprise, but non in the semis and in the quaters is an earthquake.

Well, I haven't been up to date lately. At some point, Kasumi was supposed to leave ;). Maybe Togami isn't some kind of ace and his game is quite predictable, but he has great footwork and manages against lower-ranked opponents.

Harimoto completely out of form, he should be replaced by Togami

Natalia Bajor is old school player with great BH, sometimes she is underestimated because of her style, but always dangerous when controlling the table with spinny BH. Great win for her.

Even LJK was shocked how confident DQ was with BH counter down the line

LJK looked thinner and much faster then last time, anyway great match.

Good to know.

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.

Yes they are, but it does not mean they are easy. Most of players says LYJ is on of the best servers.

It is all about LYJ serves, if you cannot handle them it is all over. That is why Sora is so angry.

I do not remember when last time Sora beat Lin. IMO Sora could beat anyone but not Lin.

Those match with WCQ was probably one of the best performance by FZD ever in my opinion. He also destroyed LSD in the final, showing his greatness.