ITTF WTTC Finals Doha 2025, 5/17-25

[turbozed]

Man Petotska made Miwa really work hard. Girl was a brick wall blocking machine and Miwa needed like 3 or 4 quality shots to finally get it past her to win rallies.

Maybe the ball really is slower than normal. Good adjustment to finally pull away but Miwa was really feeling the pressure there.

 

[zeio]

Man Petotska made Miwa really work hard. Girl was a brick wall blocking machine and Miwa needed like 3 or 4 quality shots to finally get it past her to win rallies.

Maybe the ball really is slower than normal. Good adjustment to finally pull away but Miwa was really feeling the pressure there.

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/fo...rnament-2020-tokyo-olympics.22719/post-303622

Pesotska is good. She held 2 matchpoints against Ito in WTTC 2018 if that says anything about her ability. Pity Ukraine might probably lose before she has another chance to show her strengths

FULL MATCH | ITO Mima (JPN) vs PESOTSKA Margaryta (UKR) | WT QF | #ITTFWorlds2018
https://youtu.be/HuuhhKb3WRc?t=2054

 

[igorponger]

Good to see WCC serve got kicked out for a bad tossing, thanks to TTR review.

 

[pongfugrasshopper]

I didn't get to watch it, but congratulations to Amy Wang for beating Anna Hursey 11-8 in the 7th. Anna Hursey is one of Europe's best young talents.

 

[NextLevel]

The Dima/Franz doubles loss felt very weird and now there's an explanation. Unfortantely Ovtcharov has to drop from the WTTC:



source (german)

The WTTC curse of Dima continues....

 

[turbozed]

I've watched a few Amy Wang matches and it's pretty obvious how nonchalant she is. But something else about her playstyle was just off to me and I think I just figured out what it is.

If you watch her closely, she will never drop her center of gravity. In a 7 game match, there's maybe only a couple of moments where she will bend her knees anywhere past a 1/8th squat. Anytime she tries to lift heavy backspin with her FH or BH, she just dumps it into the net because she just has no ability to sit down and load her legs.

Because she's always standing so tall, there's so much distance between the racket and her eyes on ball contact that it's must be difficult to maintain any sort of accuracy. Because she can't get low and spin up on the ball, most of her hits are super flat. Those direct shots are hard to deal with but she's working with almost zero margins, and she can drop a ton of points dumping shots into or off the top of the net.

Seriously, it's a wonder how she's a top national player while lacking such a fundamental movement ability like knee flexion. What use is having such nice legs if they don't even bend?

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

I've watched a few Amy Wang matches and it's pretty obvious how nonchalant she is. But something else about her playstyle was just off to me and I think I just figured out what it is.

If you watch her closely, she will never drop her center of gravity. In a 7 game match, there's maybe only a couple of moments where she will bend her knees anywhere past a 1/8th squat. Anytime she tries to lift heavy backspin with her FH or BH, she just dumps it into the net because she just has no ability to sit down and load her legs.

Because she's always standing so tall, there's so much distance between the racket and her eyes on ball contact that it's must be difficult to maintain any sort of accuracy. Because she can't get low and spin up on the ball, most of her hits are super flat. Those direct shots are hard to deal with but she's working with almost zero margins, and she can drop a ton of points dumping shots into or off the top of the net.

Seriously, it's a wonder how she's a top national player while lacking such a fundamental movement ability like knee flexion. What use is having such nice legs if they don't even bend?

Is it what her BF is thinking

 

[NextLevel]

I've watched a few Amy Wang matches and it's pretty obvious how nonchalant she is. But something else about her playstyle was just off to me and I think I just figured out what it is.

If you watch her closely, she will never drop her center of gravity. In a 7 game match, there's maybe only a couple of moments where she will bend her knees anywhere past a 1/8th squat. Anytime she tries to lift heavy backspin with her FH or BH, she just dumps it into the net because she just has no ability to sit down and load her legs.

Because she's always standing so tall, there's so much distance between the racket and her eyes on ball contact that it's must be difficult to maintain any sort of accuracy. Because she can't get low and spin up on the ball, most of her hits are super flat. Those direct shots are hard to deal with but she's working with almost zero margins, and she can drop a ton of points dumping shots into or off the top of the net.

Seriously, it's a wonder how she's a top national player while lacking such a fundamental movement ability like knee flexion. What use is having such nice legs if they don't even bend?

Amy had a massive growth spurt that affected her game. It's much as I sometimes criticize her game, TT is harder for tall players and her play reflects her obvious talent and work regardless of how it looks. Many people who try to play more athletically get injured. It comes with risk and sometimes nebulous reward.

 

[JackJohnson]

Amy had a massive growth spurt that affected her game. It's much as I sometimes criticize her game, TT is harder for tall players and her play reflects her obvious talent and work regardless of how it looks. Many people who try to play more athletically get injured. It comes with risk and sometimes nebulous reward.

How tall is Amy now?

 

[turbozed]

Amy had a massive growth spurt that affected her game. It's much as I sometimes criticize her game, TT is harder for tall players and her play reflects her obvious talent and work regardless of how it looks. Many people who try to play more athletically get injured. It comes with risk and sometimes nebulous reward.

I'm not questioning her talent or work ethic. If anything, it's very impressive that she can play well while keeping the same posture and just floating laterally without bending her legs. But would it be too difficult to situationally learn to load the legs on slow incoming pushes and shots to generate some heavy spin? There's some lanky guys out there like Pitchford who can drop their base fairly low and can generate good power from their base. Maybe it's just something specific to her body mechanics that makes it not worthwhile doing?

 

[NextLevel]

How tall is Amy now?

I could be wrong but likely at least 5ft 8, possibly 5-10.

 

[zeio]

XD R64
T8 Daniel Berzosa/Veronika Matiunina CPR 625 3-2 Ham Yu Song/Pyon Song Gyong CPR 265 (5, -13, 9, -13, 10)
G5 95, 96 dead net for PSG, 97, 107, 1010, 1210

MS R128
T4 JWJ 4-3 Burgos (4, 8, -11, -6, -10, 3, 8)
G7 03 TO for JWJ, 23, 24, 34, 36, 66, 67, 87 TO for Burgos, 88, 118
Table Tennis 2025: Shingeki no South America

 

[mikeytt]

togami with a very dominant win 11-2 11-2 11-5 11-2

 

[zeio]

WS R128
T6 Kallberg 4-1 Huang Yi-Hua (21) (4, 9, 9, -9, 9)
Another seed is out.

MS R128
T6 Poret (29) 4-0 Gnanasekaran (5, 6, 7, 6)

 

[mamedium]

Is it what her BF is thinking

i dont think this is appropriate and funny at all

 

[Brs]

i dont think this is appropriate and funny at all

you are fully entitled to have your own sense of humor, or not have, as the case may be

 

[zeio]

WS R128
T4 KNY (23) vs Huang Yu-Chiao (-7, 4, -10, 9, 9, -7, -7)
G7 15, 25, 27, 37, 47, 48, 58, 510, 710, 711
HYC has pretty good speed for a 29-year-old (1996/2/18). I'd say her FH is even better than that of CIC.

Two KOR players out on Day 2, Lee Eunhye (1995/5/2) first and now Kim Nayeong (2005/10/1). With Suh Hyowon (1987/5/10) leaving the team after this WTTC, there is going to be a vacuum left behind to fill ahead of LA28. With Shin Yubin (2004/7/5) as the leading figure of KNT, Park Gahyeon/朴架泫 (2007/8/18) and a few others look prime for the next Olympics age-wise.

 

[mikeytt]

very happy for Kenji to advance! his training videos on twitter and youtube have kept me entertained for years lol

 

[Bollwerk]

Japan the only country with all 16 wins in round 1, Shinozuka vs Xue Fei made the difference

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

So this edition has 2 venues, they are 10km apart and the feeling in both venue is "extremely" different.
not to mention the table 1 area is way warmer than the training hall.

lots of adapting going on.
and a scheduling nightmare to be keep going between the 2 venues (and warm up correctly).
So I won't be surprised if players under perform.

They should of just kept it under 1 roof and remove this kind of stress from the players.

2 venue problems