Interesting.
If you can't admit something as basic as that Truls is a good player who has won more world championship singles medals than Harimoto and more Olympic medals than Harimoto and has led Sweden to quite a few titles and you repeatedly try to paint Truls as a special cancer to the Swedish team who has not led the team well or pulled his weight or a player not worth respecting as one of the best and most acocmplished players of modern times basicslly because you claim Harimoto doesnt respect Truls playing standard, I would needle you too.
I think not using the chop block as often against Darko was one of the keys to Truls victory. He usually loat to Darko in the big matches in the European top 16 so i had predicted Darko would win again. But Truls played a very disciplined match, avoiding overwhelming Darko with power and using strategic placements to bother Darko before going for the kill. Playing less to Darko's strengths was definitely one of the keys to victory.
Clutch is being strong when your down, choking is weakness when you're ahead. You can be clutch and a choker I don't think they're the same or mutually exclusive
Try the same query with any of the top 10 or 20 posters in the history of this website. Let me know how.many pages of results you get in every instance. When some one is the most prolofic poster on the website and has been posting here for 15 years, it is possible to cherry pick and abuse statistics to suit your agenda. By your standard, I have fixations with members such as @UpSideDownCarl and @pongfugrasshopper. In reality, while I do needle @zeio, it simply has to do with my disagreeing with his positions when he tries to present them as established facts. But your post count argument is precisely the kind of thing I would argue is misleading in what it tries to do. And this is not the thread for it.
I actually disagree, i think Truls has one of the best forehands in the world (easily the best in Europe) and the main thing is to play a bit like him and stop trying to overpower him with the first shot but to to put him out of position with strategic serving. One of the reasons why Hugo struggles so much with Truls is that with all due respect to Hugo, his serve is extremely straightforward and once Truls reads it, he can add juat about any spin he wants. Darko at least can keep Truls off balance with various placements and spin choices out of backhand serve. And then Wang has the ultimate advantage - a lefty serve which does pretty much what Darko's serve does.
Just like some of my senior penhold friends. This way of tossing the ball is worse than hiding it or higher degree of throwing. Truls rarely tosses the ball with his palm flat.
Clutch means crucial decisive moments. Not limited to being strong when you are down.
Both Harimoto and Hugo serve very straightforward pendulum serves. I don't know why they do not bother to try at lease one reverse serves (hooked, reverse pendulum). Even the top players have certain serves that they do not return well.
Attacking behikd a serve requires you to learn placemenrs of returns, the spins etc. So it isnt trivial especially for an eatablished player. Both Harimoto and Hugo in different ways just want a ball they can read back from the opponent and it is harder when you add your own sidespin. But for someone like Truls, it does give him little to thinn about when creating his sidespin mischief.
Haha indeed. Incredibly mature and just inspiring mental strength. And the consistency of her shots is also mind blowing.
Choking is reaching the finish line and not being able to cross it due to a psychological block.
Very few have stroke variation like Truls. The way he combines spinny hooks and soft-touch inside-outs really is nearly unparalleled in Europe.
I would say unparalleled period, it is a full package forehand that no other player can match, can pick up the half long , counter and place the ball like no other, all with extremely high quality. The placement and deception with versatility is what many other forehands don't have.
