8 match points, Is AJH the new choker? It was obvious that he was playing for safe after 10:5 in the 4th game.
It seems that it has been a long long time since WCT ever played good. Even the famous JackWong did not bother to talk about him anymore.
It was complete domination, Shinopi did try some short topspin serves in game 2 thar made it interesting but on the whole, Kanak annihilated him for that level of play
Tanaka has shown he can beat WCQ so he doesn't have to worry about the rest of the world
Not sure how the qualification works, but isn't it that every country can send two players?
unless wild card.
No. Since the USA Men did not qualify a team, currently there are no USA men qualified for singles. Kanak Jha and Nikhil Kumar placed the 2 highest in the recent 2024 USA Olympic Trials so they will be sent to the 2024 ITTF Americas Olympic Qualification Tournament where the top 4 will be going to the Olympics.
I think he has always done that as far as I can remember. But my memory may be faulty - he still has those very basic serves that somehow work well for him.
His style is more like a defense-attack type. A simple serve actually makes a return more predictable and easier to defense or attack?
That's one rationalization. That said, he can and does score points of his serves and now he can clearly loop kill loose returns. But the serve itself doesn't scare anyone and it is all various pendulums and straight backspin no spin combos and I can't remember the last time I saw him serve reverse sidespin though I think he does have a rare punch variant (but I might need confusing him with someone else).
