love LKJ's smile afterward too

The Chinese smiled, that says it all

This was really awesome

Just peak human performance

my favorite chinese

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How did Liang "struggle all game"? He literally came back down 0-2 to win 3-2.

Gauzy was not in the form of his life, Xu Xin still remembers what Gauzy REALLY did in the form of his life

Gausy didn't stop playing voluntarily. He just failed to return the ball and tried to steal a point from Liang. If he returned the ball and earned that point, he would never call it "net" ball.

you must always focus on the game and not distracted by anything else and lost your mind

Suggest a timeout

Are you blind, if you play ×0.25, look when the ball is approaching the net. It was the same height with the net, then it slightly touches and goes up. Simon clearly stopped playing

This is really bad from wtt, he lost his tempo after this and lost the game because of that bad net judgments

Check at 38:38 and you will see the net with this camera angle...

@@chicnroots4339 no net movement.. no change of ball spin or trajectory...no net...

@@chicnroots4339 i can see Gauzy lowered his body and focusing the coming ball to be fully ready to return it. but, after failure, he claimed he didn't pick the ball because it's net serve. 😂😂😂

for me should be Felix Lebrun and Simon gauzy Alexis beat his brothers but will lost against a lot players

Le brun brothers is overrated

What part of felix's performance is overated?​@@djsantosa4757

Psychologically this is move did not help Gauzy, he was the one that suffer a loss of concentration to concede the next two points, he spent his emotional energy arguing with the umpire, if he just waved off this point and concentrate on the next points the outcome might have been different. Even at 4:4 the match was still winnable from Gauzy's perspective. Liang just laughed because he knew the ball did not touch the net and Gauzy created his own distraction.

European players like to use the "complaining", "net ball", "grunting" and "changing racket" tactics and they call it "experience".

Well gauzy is from France. Frenchies all complain what do you expect 😂

I agree it was not a "legal", official net ball (and probably not a physical one either, but that is disputed). The important thing here is umpire decides dubious situations in tournaments. I do want to point out that your argument 3 make no sense - a lot of players will return a net serve for a) reaction and b) not having time to process it's a net point or not. Regarding 4. yes, Gauzy should have kept playing and waited for the umpire to call (or not in this case). Not call it himself. Your conclusion though, is a bit harsh. This is competitive play, and Gauzy was not being "unsportsman" to Liam, he was just having a healthy argument about the particular play. If you want to see lack of sportstamnship, go watch one of the many large team, physical contact sports that plague TVs like soccer or football or basketball :P

I also thought so at first due t the shadow, but then I decided to look at the spin: the ball doesn't lose any rotation speed from a net touch. You can see it somewhat clearly at 38:38. It was really close but in my opinion, even if it was a VERY MINOR net touch, umpire decides. Them's the rules

That we don't see the full serve is on purpose. The audience with knowledge of the rules should not see the illegal serves that don't get called out. That way only the umpire has the last word because there won't be any analyse from a third party. Chinese audience, chinese players, chinese rules and politics.

@@esmolol4091 This is not correct in my opinion. I believe the video editor is unfit for the task, clumsy in video editing. This has nothing to do with Chinese players and especially not with Chinese politics."

I'm not an expert but if that's really the case why did he raised his hand before touching the ball ? I would say he really saw it

@@amaurybuffet6537 He should have raised his hands right after his own serve and before Liang returned the ball, not after Liang returned the ball and hit the net so that Gauzy was in a bad situation. The only net ball here was Liang's returned ball was hitting the net, not Gauzy's serve.

​@@user-fq5vl3fl1b I would say there was many other net in the game he did not do that. I never said the serve hit the net, only that Simon did saw it. It does not makes much sense otherwise. But if you think you know what he saw I trust you ;)

@@amaurybuffet6537 This is a very critical point at 4:3 in the decider game and that why he did it. It was the umpire's call to decide whether it was a net ball or not. Simon had no position to keep arguing against the umpire and Liang after the umpire's decision after double-check. It's ok to raise the question about whether it was a net ball, but unacceptable for him to continue arguing against the umpire when the umpire already double-checked and made the final judgement and decision, especially when only Simon thought it was a net ball but his opponent and the umpire didn't think so, which usually means Simon was wrong about the "net" ball. It's very easy to tell a net ball if the ball changes the trajectory after hitting the net. It's also very easy for the player to misread the ball as "net ball" when it's the ball's shadow on the other side of the net and the ball doesn't change its trajectory at all. For Simon's case, the ball clearly didn't change the trajectory over the net, so it was very silly for him to keep arguing it was a net ball.

​@@user-fq5vl3fl1bOk you seem very wise and have knowledge on how people think. I trust you to know what Simon thought at that moment. Keep spreading love ;)

Why?

What are talking about, you couch expert?

stop saying silly comment mate

I tend to agree, but that's because I like less orthodox players. The one thing that, to me, makes me have a bias against Chinese players is their excess amounts of basic technique, where they completely excel at and is also why they (not just Liam) can perform these amazing comebacks - consistency wins. That said, it's also why I love unorthodox Chinese players such as the man sitting down on China Team's chair, who pioneered RPB (Wang Hao), along with his Penhold antecessor (Ma Lin) and successor (Xu Xin). And why I am ABSOLUTELY in love with seeing such young players as Felix Lebrun makeit so big with RPB. But here, Gauzy brought something else I usually love in TT - bravado and point-level persistency. He lost it at the latter stages because, well, consistency just trumps it, especially on long matches.

The best player win no matter what you have to shake hand to be a good sportman no matter what mate

I think Simon lost against himself in the last set where he was discussing about that one point to 4:4. If it had been a regular point he would have played better..

You're not sure if it's a net, and Simon is a better player, then you think Liang does not deserve a hand shake after the match. What wrong has Liang done?

It's a professional match, not a game with amateurs. You can't just call your own lets and expect the game to stop just like that. Sad for Gauzy but the loss was on him, nor the umpire or anything else.

@@lcmb7591 Please take a closer look. Every time Simon had match point, Liang hit the edge of the table and, out of luck, escaped down the line. In my opinion Simon was the much better player here and Liang won undeservedly.

what are you even talking about? Simon's serve did not touch the net.

Obviously Liang did not see this serve from Gauzy touching the net and he wasn't going to make a call on it because it wasn't his job to make a call. And he did not influence the umpire to make a call that disadvantage his opponent. Video replay showed no conclusive evidence of the ball touching the net and umpire certainly did not think so. If the ball did touch the top of the net there should be some movement of the net as the ball touched the very top of it, it might also change the trajectory and direction of the serve, we saw none of that in replay. When you freeze frame at 38:40 mark you see a clear clearance between the net and the ball.

Salty loser lying about a fake net ball.

Just be reading your comment I know you have never played any sport in your life.

1) that serve didn't touch the net 2) Gauzy called the net ball after failing returning the ball (cheating and lying obviously) 3) the umpire made the right decision after checking the replay, and Liang had not argued anything about it since beginning so, what the hell is that Liang not being a gentleman?