If untrue, will ZYL play?  I don't see the universe in which she is still a part of the core women's team going forward.

Thanks for the info.  I remember her having health issues so I am glad to hear she's well enough to teach now.

The current entry list does make the tournament more "exciting" - we can pretend that there is a real possibility that this is a new story and we have no clue how it will end.  Probably a good thing for the fans and the pundits...

If my memory serves me right, CNT main forces hardly goes to Asian Cup

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MS:  https://asia.ittf.com/eventInfo?subEvt=MSINGLES&selectedTab=Draws&eventId=2628" rel="nofollow - https://asia.ittf.com/eventInfo?subEvt=MSINGLES&selectedTab=Draws&eventId=2628 (Click on Main Draw)

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They are going to exhaust the players lol.

I think it will be livestreaming on this channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@ITTFWorld" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/@ITTFWorld

Thanks. The video quality is pretty good.

Ps.  Was wrong, this is a knockout, one and done.

35 minutes between matches is what they usually schedule for bo5.  I wonder if it was originally bo5, and they decided to switch to bo7 but forgot to adjust the schedule.

Just realized this listening to Bobrow, tough for CXT.  I guess the best of seven was their best attempt to prevent this but still a roll of the dice. 

Yeah.  The speed of this match will definitely help with climate change given how fast it is going.

The problem is obvious...  if he cannot play unconsciously, he plays consciously, and when he does that, the self talk interferes with his play with unfortunate results.

Tourney is Bo7 alright, but I actually had the WCQ-Kirill game and LYJ-WCT game in my mind when I drafted this  comment, But I was hesitant to make any predictions. Who knew LGY was gonna do his thing lol, I was expecting that in the latter half of the tourney, WCT got an upset and WCQ won his game. Huge pressure on WCQ now moving on forward.

BTW barring his spirited display in the 2-4 loss to FZD recently in Macau, LYJ has mostly been underwhelming on the big stage since his brilliant efforts at the Olympics in mid 2021, He's played in Europe for over half a year now, Is this still issues with his strength or drawn-out poor form, or is this another display of the volatility of strength of men in the top 25 of the rankings?? 

He is going through a period of change, I suspect it will be a while before his true level is manifest.

Hope her tricep is ok to continue! 

When risky shots land on the table, confidence is there.

Wang Chuqin didn't give up and tried his best.

Also Chen Szu Yu is showing exactly how not to play against pips - she's just playing slow short serves, slow pushes and control topspins and getting absolutely destroyed by the variation in Batra's game, and also attacking the BH pips where Batra is already in position instead of the wide FH corner.... 

Edit: she finally realised it in the sixth game that she was winning almost every single point where she FH looped to Batra's FH.... will be interesting to see if Batra adjusts and starts countering those hard. Still it's much better to mix the placements up as the attacker.

Edit: Batra is just pinning her down to the deep BH as a response and suddenly Chen Szu Yu proved that she's unable or too chicken to go down the line strongly.....

Exactly, she was way too conservative and chicken in the match which is a big no no against pips. Pips players just love these medium speed balls...

Thanks

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...

This must be devastating for her.

I think she did a better job of moving her opponent with her BH. It's a risk that she has to take when hitting the parallel length. But that's better than exchanging BH cross court with WYD in a set position. That's proven not to work. She has to be careful though when she bumps the ball with her pips that it bounces too high, and she's immediately in a defensive position. Disappointing for sure,  but I don't know about devastating.  All you can do is try to improve for your next encounter. 

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.

Filus has to play away from the table due to the topspin quality in the men's game, while Batra plays close table for the most part as she can suppress the incoming ball's quality in the women's game. I suspect someone like Sun Yingsha who hits really hard to give her a very bad time. Not sure why Chen Xingtong and Hayata all played so conservative against her, especially Hayata who usually has so much power in her disposal. 

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.

Dude, he's WR 2. Time to give his game some credit. 

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

Posting for a (former) friend...

besides Fan, Wang and ML, literally name 7 other current players you would consider to be better than Harimoto lol

If he would  have played a semi in a worlds he would be a true top5. How many top 5 players have lost to under top20 players in world championships ?

Your question is nonsense because better is not the same as high ranked. WCQ is better. Now that WR matters for you  Tell me.

Why HT has better ranking than WCQ if WCQ has defeated  HT more times?

How many top 5 players have been aged 18 or younger?

Please do not say another person's question is "nonsense".   Consider this a warning. Thank you.