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%cough% Miu Hirano %cough%. But I guess the hype is too big right now to assess what's happened rationally. If I were to bet my house on this, Fan Zhendong is the heavy favorite to collect the prizes in the next 5 years.
the more they play him, the better they'll know his serves. He is imporving, but what you do is extrapolating that growth linearly, which is not how the growth works. It's always logarithmic: fast at first, slow later, stops at some point. Diminishing returns and all. I'm a statistician so naturally I love stats. What do they tell us about the phenomenal year Harimoto had? You be the judge, other top players for comparison. The reason for my choice of Fan Zhendong becomes obvious as well.Miu Hirano had a one-off win. Her style was cracked by the CNT. Harimoto had been improving over the last a year and a half, beating more and more top players. So far not a single player could return his serve well, let alone cracking his style.
they sell rights to TV channels and possibly laola1's paid subscription gets you that quality as well. I don't know many sports (save for esports) who just stream their stuff at 1080p@60fps for free.just saw the highlights of FZD vs Hugo on ITTF Youtube channel. great camera work and 1080p @ 60fps is beautiful. cmon ITTF, this needs to be the standard for atleast major tournaments.
don't you worry, the Chinese will just clone him and name the clone something like, I don't know, Leela Chess Zero perhaps? ;-)Tomokazu Harimoto is like this new Alfa Zero Google's chess AI neural network engine ... in the matches against traditional engines this "chess entity" dismantles the opposite side in a way that it's pieces are still there, but somehow can not engage into the real action ...
was to be expected, what were CNT thinking fielding two Miu Hiranos? She's not that good a doubles player anyway.
don't you worry, the Chinese will just clone him and name the clone something like, I don't know, Leela Chess Zero perhaps? ;-)
was to be expected, what were CNT thinking fielding two Miu Hiranos? She's not that good a doubles player anyway.
true but that's the sad reality of belonging to the top nation. The expectations and pressure are immense. You win? Who cares, it's been that way for decades. Also explains the "another day in the office" expression you see on some CNT members' faces after a win, which some people complain about. You lose? Prepare to get mauled by your own media and netizens. It's no fun.what was most striking to me is that the 2 Chinese girls didn't seem to talk a lot together, and happy to play together. The Japanese girls enjoyed themselves much more, smiled and kept encouraging each other. There seems to be something wrong in the CNT mentality.
Pictures to be hung up high in the CNT training hall.