2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals

zeio said:

Retire, Ito, Ishikawa, Hirano, and Hayata.

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Vlad Celler said:

And I, an old idiot, after 0: 2 did not watch online .....

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zeio said:

First-ever successful challenge. History made by Boll!

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zeio said:

You didn't stay with them until the very end? You're the worst...

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Janard said:

Maybe JNT is now regretting opening up two singles slots for Olympics haha. It seems the trio of Ito, Nagasaki & Kihara might be the real deal.

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Atas Newton said:

I don't like this "ball behind the head" rule for multiple reasons. First, as Ma Long said to the umpire, your head is a momentarily obstruction that doesn't even remotely hide the contact point. Second, unlike the free hand, you can't freely move your head, it generaly just stays where the body position dictates it to be. And the body position on serves is 100% trained into your physical memory. To me, the umpire could call fault on almost all of the serves from either Ma Long and Jeoung Youngsik and the video replay would show that they technically are faults. Most of the players hide the ball with their head. Third, the replay doesn't show you the line of sight of the receiving player which kinda matters a lot. He might be able to see half the ball, camera would see none of it - fault.

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driversbeat said:

So demoralising for Sato. Must be tough being a defender and have your teammates figure out all your defending patterns

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Janard said:

LSW and CM both deliberating if they wanna risk their Olympics chances by taking on Ito lol. Although CM has like almost 10 nets favouring her??

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