2024 WTT Contender Taiyuan 5/21-5/26

[TampaBayTableTennis]

loved the timing of these events, so much good action to watch. epic womens final in Taiyuan and great performance from LJK. excited for Hugo!

 

[kindof99]

They gave Alexis one game to show them that he had something new. After that, they deployed the usual low risk let him hang him himself tactics that have worked against him on the past and which worked pretty well once again. There is a general reason Lebrun plays well against Asians and fast players.

TBH, not many players can handle those slow spinny low ball of LJK. But Alexis might handle it particularly badly

 

[NextLevel]

TBH, not many players can handle those slow spinny low ball of LJK. But Alexis might handle it particularly badly

Hey, I will be the first to remind everyone who thinks Gauzy should play over Alexis for Olympics singles that Alexis is the better player with the higher ceiling. But he needs to improve his risk taking and shot selection sometimes. In this case though, he was playing a better player so it didn't matter.

 

[fore.n.back]

TBH, not many players can handle those slow spinny low ball of LJK. But Alexis might handle it particularly badly

Alexis has a tendency to snap his wrist when trying to counter those spinny loops, which is error prone since it's hard to control your bat angle. When he changed to block he couldn't judge the landing point well thus taking the ball high and sending it off the edge

 

[driversbeat]

Wang Yidi manages to lose XD, WD and WS all at one event. A notorious triple but a triple that it is better to have achieved than to never have been there at all.

If Chen is retiring soon from CNT, a great way to go out.

IMO Chen Xingtong deserves the Olympic P card and all the opportunities that have been given to Wang Yidi. I think she's 100% against JNT this cycle and only lost to Ito once last cycle?

 

[zeio]

Shi Xunyao on 3-1 Harimoto
https://weibo.com/5229334406/OfLDAdIJR

CNT players watching on Shi Xunyao 2-1 Hirano.
https://weibo.com/5229334406/OfTRuqumY

CXT on 3-0 Kihara
https://weibo.com/5229334406/OfWBIedw4
WYD on 3-0 Hirano
https://weibo.com/5229334406/OfWYDFT1h

 

[zeio]

IMO Chen Xingtong deserves the Olympic P card and all the opportunities that have been given to Wang Yidi. I think she's 100% against JNT this cycle and only lost to Ito once last cycle?

CXT has squandered her share of opportunities.

To the CNT, losing to Batra at Asian Cup 2022 was likely the one that sealed her fate. Losing to Szocs also is a big no-no. 1-3 -> 4-3 CIC at WTTC 2023 and 0-2 -> 3-2 A. Mukherjee at ATTC 2023 revealed too many uncertainties. Not being able to get deep enough of the draw to beat JNT players is meaningless even given a 100% win rate.

 

[SFF_lib]

Alexis can swing between 80%-120%. LJK is consistent as a wall. He probably swing between 99%-105%.

But most of the time Alexis gets frustrated and lost