I don't understand why more people don't play like WMY. Just attack the choppers. You can conserve some energy on the really good chops and push those back, but your default shot should be to attack, not to push. When you loop all over the table, it's hard for a chopper to keep all the chops high quality, some will pop a bit high, and that's your opportunity to loop drive it for a chance to win the point.
Its not that easy. WMY is probably has the highest quality on both forehand and backhand on the women's side (Sun Yingsha id jot that far behind, arguably ahead on forehand variation but lacking the sheer control and qualiry variation on backhand) and the tradiional weakness she had was that she has too brushy and vertical a forehand and per zeio and analysts, the rumor is that intense work was put into cleaning it up in the last during training session for Asian champs.
What partly helps the women choppers out is that they can train against high level men so it is very hard to produce enough speed and power to overwhelm them if you are a woman attacker. It is when you get to the levels of the Sun Yingshas, Wang Manyus, Miwa Harimotos etc that the power levels get interesting. Also experience reading snd playing pips is critical and it is obvious that Sun Yingsha has a different level of spin reading, her loss to Ayhika Mukherjee notwithstanding. So does Mima Ito.
Finally Sato is extremely strong on the counter attack and loose ball pick off. So regular quality doesn't get the job done. Unless your regular quality is WMY. Let's just say that not everyone can do what WMY did agains a Sato qualiry chopper. I also suspect if they had played the semis and finals pn the same day, WMY would have struggled much more. She made the 24 hours of rest count massively. Keep in mind that the job is to win not to play proper TT.
