Who do you think will win the World Tour Grand Finals 2018?

  • Xu Xin

    Votes: 9 8.8%
  • Fan Zhendong

    Votes: 40 39.2%
  • Ma Long

    Votes: 27 26.5%
  • Liang Jingkun

    Votes: 6 5.9%
  • Tomokazu Harimoto

    Votes: 10 9.8%
  • Jang Woojin

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Lin Gaoyuan

    Votes: 6 5.9%
  • Hugo Calderano

    Votes: 2 2.0%
  • Jun Mizutani

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other (Post Below)

    Votes: 2 2.0%

  • Total voters
    102
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Captain Ma really worked hard to get back on form for the grand final. Unfortunately we all know knee injury is not the easiest one to recover from. He has to withdraw for the sake of Tokyo 2020.

I’m hoping for an epic FZD-HT final.

Ma Long had injections in his knee?
 
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Women's Singles


1st Half


101 Wang Manyu
115 Feng Tianwei


110 Chen Xingtong
106 Chen Meng


107 Zhu Yuling
111 Sato Hitomi


114 Sun Yingsha
103 Liu Shiwen


2nd Half


104 Ito Mima
109 Cheng I-Ching


116 Shibata Saki
105 Ding Ning


108 Suh Hyowon
112 He Zhuojia


113 Miu Hirano
102 Ishikawa Kasumi

The first half looks like CTTSL ^^" Seems like we are headed into a WMY/CM/LSW vs Ito/DN/HZJ finals
 
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Men's Singles

1st Half


101 Xu Xin
112 Wong Chun Ting


111 Lee Sangsu
106 Lin Gaoyuan


105 Jun Mizutani
113 Liu Dingshuo


115 Timo Boll
103 Liang Jingkun


2nd Half


104 Harimoto Tomokazu
109 Franziska Patrick


110 Lim Jonghoon
105 Jang Woojin


107 Hugo Calderano
116 Yuya Oshima


114 Niwa Koki
102 Fan Zhendong

Seems like another XX/LJK vs FZD finals.
 
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FTW has a chance making past the 1st round.

Nice! He Zhuojia doesn't like choppers here.

Hirano and Ishikawa are like honey and bees.
 
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Harimoto has lost to a lot of German players this year - I wouldn't be in a rush to make him the favorite vs Franziska without some hesitation. Rosskopf seems to understand his game. That said, push comes to shove, I would pick Harimoto.
Harimoto played against Franziska at the Czech Open and won 4-2.
 
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Service error @ 5:9 in the final game. Just retire, Ishikawa!

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The stadium looks really cold. No heating?

1st CNT casualty.

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The 3rd game was close. After dropping the 2nd game, Chen Bin told Liu/Zhang to push to BH of Hayata/Ito. When that didn't work, they immediately switched tactics to open the point up ASAP. This is where you see Hayata/Ito have improved. The pair knew what's going on roughly 2 points later and reacted accordingly to keep their lead.
 
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