Which did you enjoy more Singapore Smash 2023 or Frankfurt 2023?

[Jonathan Lawler]

I personally liked Frankfurt more than Singapore Smash for many reasons. 1 Most of the Chinese were knocked out so early in the competition, and Timo Boll. 2 Felix Lebrun vs Ma Long. I swear I was cho ing louder than Tomokazu Harimoto during that match. 3 Lin vs Patrick Franziska and Dima vs Ma long Then of course the final where Lin won against Ma Long. Please share your thoughts and highlights of both tournaments and tell me which one was your favorite.

 

[PaddyPolar]

Frankfurt... Lin yun ju won, no questions asked.

Also it wasnt as chinese dominant, which is nice to see some other players.

 

[backspacer]

I was in Frankfurt so yeah, Frankfurt. I like doubles however and we don't have them in the Champions tier.

 

[tackyfh]

imo the recent Frankfurt and Taiyuan leave more impression than most other WTT events this year solely because I don't have to watch an all-Chinese affair and the promising young guns from other countries has finally shown their full potential

 

[zeio]

Neither because both still ended up an all-Chinese affair.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/以台灣為名申請參加2020年東京奧運公投案

In terms of difficulty, there were 8 players from China in MS and WS each at Singapore Smash 2023 and 2 men and 4 women were eliminated by non-Chinese players (Harimoto, Han Ying and Yuan Jia Nan are ethnic Chinese but politically they are not).