Asian Cup 2022, Bangkok, 11/17-19

Yeah he doesn't really know how to borrow power on the BH, everything is a full body powerloop which is not the most efficient way to play BH-BH pressure play...

guni4you wrote: which rubber does manika use on forehand? Dignics 09c?

Viscaria/V>15 Extra/Grass D.Tecs OX

She still has the nasty habit of overhitting without topspin especially on the FH...which cost her a huge amount of critical points. She did a lot better when she was focusing more on spin, placement and depth variation to induce mistakes and weak balls to finish rather than outright trying to hit the ball past Wang Yidi (imo doesn't work at all - Wang Yidi is simply too strong in countering fast balls)

Still her lack of topspin on the FH is a huge liability - if those smashes have more topspin on them they would likely have landed and those crucial mistakes would have been won by her rather than her opponent.

I think the fact that Ito, who usually beats pips players with ease, won with a hard fought 4-2, is something you are not accounting for.  I don't doubt good players can beat Batra, but I don't think anyone played conservatively vs Batra, I think her consistency genuinely surprised everyone and wore them down over time, her forehand was definitely improved and put pressure on the opponents more, but even more impressive to me, her offensive twiddling on the backhand and the defensive twiddling on the forehand was a different level.  But more than anything else, I would put the improvement on her forehand as when she took control of the rally, her power made it very hard to switch and she countered extremely well (I wouldn't be surprised if she is practicing with some of the men's team).   She could very well have beaten all the opponents she beat with higher margins, Chen Xingtong, Hayata and Chen Szu Yu 4-1, it is easy to miss this.

It will be interesting to see where she goes from here, He Zhuoja now has renewed importance on the CNT, they might even make her start using Dtecs lol.

That only happens when he plays someone who let HT do that strokes. 80% of his game are BH punches.

I'm quite impressed that someone with 80% BH punches recently beat an in-form WCQ and FZD.