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I was right about Freitas vs Möregårdh. I remember last year after WTT Contender Budapest that Möregårdh won, he went to a smaller ITTF event in Czechia and went out in the semis being tired/injured. It takes a toll to play in events 2 days after you finished one. Freitas is also a strong player...

I will preface this by mentioning I was unable to watch the Karlsson-Wang game, but I imagine it was a combination of a strong Karlsson who was looking for revenge after his early exist last week combined with a Wang who might not have reached his peak or felt tired after the event a few days...

I don't think Truls will ever reach WR1, but I think he will at worst reach the top 10 if he doesn't succumb to injuries.

FZD was one or two numbers too strong for Truls. FZD clearly deserves the Gold. Even with this expected result for Truls I hope this tournament has showcased his mental strength (four 4-3's) and will be a good development for him going forward.

Unfortunately they have been subpar in team events recently. Not to take away from any other nations.

Congratz to Falck and Karlsson! Always been a very strong doubles team and finally getting the payoff!

Günther is/was underrated anyway ;)

I believe in Möregårdh to give us a good show vs FZD. Truls has no reason to not believe he can't win. Don't go in with a loser mentality.

Möregårdh - Boll in the semi finals? A match we all expected before this event.

Yes, I was being unnecessarily harsh on him, he knows way more than I ever will about what team to use when. Also, do you mean Falck/Karlsson as opposed to Falck/Persson. Jon is a good doubles guy, but not at the Olympic level. Today's win for Germany over Japan and also Taipei really shows how...

A little bit late, but last night's loss marks the end of this Olympics for Persson's men. Not touching the men's singles more since it was bad (I expected at least top 16 for Falck with his draw). All in all a very bad Olympics from almost every player except Kristian Karlsson who looked really...

In hindsight I shouldn't have written that one post, as much I respect Ma Long I feel like disrespecting Waldner, Liqin, Jike or any other player that could have ever claimed goat in any way or form is just bad taste.

Looking forward to the team tournament now, which teams will medal. Outside of China I see Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Sweden, South Korea etc as potential candidates.

Not arguing your knowledge of today's technicalities in the game. I trust you about that. But I do wanna dd that you talked about that Waldner should have won in 2012 when he played Ma Long. Age is actually relevant here. Ma Long was young and soon entering his prime, Waldner was a league player...

At first I was worried you were calling me out over female players having done it before, haha.

The way I see it, the Waldner, Persson, Gatien and several others from Europe forced the Chinese to move away from their Penhold strategies and develop shakehand players. Of course, their early crop with Xu Xengcai or Ma Wenge wasn't up to par until Kong Linghui emerged. Kong whom went to Sweden...

While the CNT has a lot of their old guys as coaches, it's not always the very best becomes good coaches. We will see of course.

I agree, the discussion hasn't been in favor of anyone else since the 2019 WTTC win anyway. Waldner unfortunately is hurt by the fact the he lost as many big finals as he won.

I understand having your favourite player, but I don't understand trying to shit on others.

First player to win two OG. Take a bow.