No one uses pure power - it's just a myth. But the best guy against chop by a mile is Xu Xin. I think LGL didn't want to bore Chinese viewers with Joo vs XX and he wanted to challenge Ma Long and ZJK with the first two matches. They both delivered in the end.
Of course nobody, but ZJK likes to loop more in a row against defenders than ML. I've never seen XX against a chopper.
I wonder what ML was thinking after winning the last point. "What? No more? After all the preparation and that's it?"
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... It tells 1) ITTF that China can be beaten and please no further rule change is needed. ... jks.
jks is supposed for jokes but really, is there any rumour that ITTF will further tweak the existing rules to "promote better competitions" ??? I just do not follow closely the rule n regulation things.
After the german team lost to Japan, everyone started complaining about the germans' technique. Why is no one now complaining about Mizutani's strange technique or recovery after a fh loop from his bh side?
It's so stupid that people are bashing Boll's forehand technique while it has been his major weapon against the Chinese for so long. Right now he's not as safe in his strokes as he used to be but the spin of his forehand used to really trouble everyone during the celluloid era and the quickness of the stroke would make him deadly while counter-attacking. This is why you would always see the top-chinese relentlessly pressuring his backhand (see ZJK vs Boll 2011) because attacking to his forehand would be a death-wish for anyone.