Stop hating on northern accents.
There's so much dead time in table tennis anyway they just need to just pause whatever they're talking about for a second or two and focus on the action before starting up the topic again.
I understand where you are coming from. He does use a lot of British slang as well but in the modern world, I guess we are supposed to be open to all kinds of diversity.
It's not a matter of tolerance to diversity but rather practicality. International viewers are not accustomed to local accents and WTT should consider this. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know but at least that's the way I see it.
I've read that he has sometype of a neurological problem and he can't top spin from his FH and that's why he has such an unusual playing style.
I think you're right that the "standard" American English accent is most easily understood by most of the world due to about a century worth of Hollywood influence.
I seem to have the same problem but it seems to affect both sides lol
As a northerner myself, i find Bobrow's American accent far more irritating, as well as the constant stories he tells about having dinner with the players families etc.
Does Japan want to sub Miwa for Miu at the Olympics in Paris?Ouch! CM beat Miu Hirano at 2,2,7
Nah, it is the Chinese coaching staff you underestimate. Unless you are like Miwa and continually evolving at too rapid a rate to pin down comfortably, or using long pips which thry do not have time to clone yet, they continually improve the practice clones and countermeasures against your playing style until they can recite your weaknesses and place the ball where you hate it in their sleep.I will go on record to say that I thought Miu had a better shot at beating CM than Miwa in the team final a few months back.
Maybe I don't know better than the Japanese national team coaching staff after all?
Seriously though that was both uncomfortable and incredible to watch.
Hirano has to retire first…but no demand yet, so..
The investment in Hirano's promise is huge so no calls for retirement any time soon. But if Hayata had that result, all we would hear is how dumb she is...
That's a good point that we were all talking about on that day when CNT women were fallen to pips. Specific preparation for the perceived top threats plays a huge role in this whole situation. This tends to make the wins and close losses by the perceived foreign 'ace' a bit more impressive and reasonable.
