Don't scare me like that...
Both Ito's (1800 to 900) and Hirano's (2400 to 1500) points will drop by 900 so unlikely that the latter will come out in front.
Don't scare me like that...
Watched the WD finals highlights. Regardless of the controversy, I didn't like Mima's body language. It seems like she dug a hole of pressure for herself with that 3 gold medal declaration. I mean if it took that long for Liu Shiwen to win what makes her think that it would come easy for her? At least from the snippets she didn't seem prepared for long matches. She really should take pointers from the Chinese who always expect their opponents to catch up and aren't fazed when it happens.
do you mean how Ding Ning limped around? Cause the replays clearly showed she did roll her ankle, simulation's out of the question. She could be in a lot of pain, she could be not, you can't say with any confidence it was all for show. She's been fair the rest of her career.At the same level or worse than Ding Ning's theatrics against LSW in the last WTTC final ! this is plain despicable ... how the can umpire take a decision if only one team is appealing and the team appealing has lost the point ..
as far as I can tell, it wasn't SYS. They lost the point, then the assistant ref on the right of the screen pointed at the edge. Then SYS goes "well if you say so, ref (wink wink)" and agrees with the decision. Next thing we see is Wang Manyu noticing the main ref has her arm raised calling a let and she too is like "oh there you go, it was a let serve all along". None of the two called for anything themselves.Sorry I have to change my mind when I found that it was actually SYS who first raised her hand before the umpire, after rewatching it many times...
So not a fair play from SYS...
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do you mean how Ding Ning limped around? Cause the replays clearly showed she did roll her ankle, simulation's out of the question. She could be in a lot of pain, she could be not, you can't say with any confidence it was all for show. She's been fair the rest of her career.
as far as I can tell, it wasn't SYS. They lost the point, then the assistant ref on the right of the screen pointed at the edge. Then SYS goes "well if you say so, ref (wink wink)" and agrees with the decision. Next thing we see is Wang Manyu noticing the main ref has her arm raised calling a let and she too is like "oh there you go, it was a let serve all along". None of the two called for anything themselves.
I agree it wasn't pretty, but I've seen lots of players - otherwise very fair - claim a point in borderline situation, including the game's greatest. I mean I'm a fair person, but if I'm Wang Manyu I don't know what I'd do. For all they knew at the moment, the ball might've actually caught the cord which they hadn't noticed, but the umpire had. In that situation you don't give the point away unless you're super sure it didn't touch the net. I know someone like Harimoto would probably forfeit the point, but that's just cause he's always trying to be fair even at his own expense, always agrees with the opponent/ref. You don't have to do that to still be fair. This situation isn't clear enough for me to call them cheats.
even in football lots of bellends still think VAR is evil, when the stats show iirc 80%+ success rate of VAR challenges. The reasoning of such people is beyond the comprehension of us normal people.
do you mean how Ding Ning limped around? Cause the replays clearly showed she did roll her ankle, simulation's out of the question. She could be in a lot of pain, she could be not, you can't say with any confidence it was all for show. She's been fair the rest of her career.
as far as I can tell, it wasn't SYS. They lost the point, then the assistant ref on the right of the screen pointed at the edge. Then SYS goes "well if you say so, ref (wink wink)" and agrees with the decision. Next thing we see is Wang Manyu noticing the main ref has her arm raised calling a let and she too is like "oh there you go, it was a let serve all along". None of the two called for anything themselves.
I agree it wasn't pretty, but I've seen lots of players - otherwise very fair - claim a point in borderline situation, including the game's greatest. I mean I'm a fair person, but if I'm Wang Manyu I don't know what I'd do. For all they knew at the moment, the ball might've actually caught the cord which they hadn't noticed, but the umpire had. In that situation you don't give the point away unless you're super sure it didn't touch the net. I know someone like Harimoto would probably forfeit the point, but that's just cause he's always trying to be fair even at his own expense, always agrees with the opponent/ref. You don't have to do that to still be fair. This situation isn't clear enough for me to call them cheats.
I just wanted to do one complain about this tournament: they way the draw was divided in 8 days. They could've made a better distribution with the finals in the last day with maybe just the XD and semis yesterday, and made the first 3 days more light, idk, just felt weird the last 2 days kinda "empty" of matches
sorry if I'm saying nonsense
other than that, I enjoyed very much many exciting matches
Where and when will be the next pro tour tournament?