2020 China national championship Oct 01-10

It's an evolution :) 

Initially he was over aggressive and played insanely close to table - he was trying to reach Olympus.

That time FZD struggled with big 3 of that time MaLong, XuXin and JJike.

I heard comments of liu guoliang of a game between FZD and XuXin of that time - he told about that weekness - yes - you limit your opponent with that playstyle and if he is not ready - you can win, but if you are ready to such kind of game - you will win and XuXin did it effortlessly.

Exactly the same situation with Harimoto - totally the same steps.

After that FZD became more stable he moved to more powerful than speedy/tempoish game and he outplayed all the big 3 couple of times - but mostly he lost to MaLong.

Also saw comment of game from LiuGuoliang when he commented the time when FZD easily outplayed XuXin - he mentioned that facts.

Why Harimoto yet not changed to that state? - because he is not yet so powerfull - and his technique of forehand is not so good like top-chinese have. 

Also he has lack in movement and he plays girlish style of game - his BH is fast but not powerful - he uses t05fx because of this. Look on his opponents - when he bh flicks - the ball often times go to net - there is no enough energy in it.

But he evolving little by little and may be finally will trap to this situation. 

And now final result - FZD got ready to MaLong tricks (even though on peek still Ma would win - today he is not so fast/powerfull like he used to be competing Ma Lin Wang Hao, Wan Liquin as he was younger flexier) he studied game, he prepared mentally (even though all we know who was training him and how he can struggle (I am about Wan Hao))

It's enough to win those guys who are playing the style he knows.

But what about his dominance in future 10 years?

I really doubt in it.

Harimoto can win him just in case when he is on killing streak, will such kind of stability save FZD? 

Do not think so, to win Harimoto steadily - he should switch back to second - more powerfull game.

What about LinYunJu? 

Yes -it is rising nightmare for all of them.

Somebody can tell about him as about assasin because he rose once when nobody expected.

But I disagree - he yet have too many zones of growing - for example just a bit more muscles and he will be able to out power FZD.

He is fast like Harimoto, but the quality of shots is much better.

Experience  - he is getting it little by little and already have experience of winning against huge guys.

FZD is hard working and may be a good concurent to him, but he is so much slower :( his movement is so much shorter.

Who else?

If wang chuqin could  deal with his emotions - he could be next number 1.

He is lefty, he is fast, he is powerful but not mentaly stable.

lin gaoyuan has not enough power and he is small bones guy - there  will not be much more that he has now - or he will become next Liang Jingkun- guy of one tournament.

You may say - but Waldner was guy of one tournament :) 

Ok - but it was long ago - rules changed pretty drastically.

Fzd and ma was tien 7 all in the 7th game and the last 4 points were BH rips to win

It's probably the knee injury and surgery, once you have an injury nothing is the same anymore....

He seems to be increasing the spin quality of his loops to avoid opponents being able to counter them (I suspect he's actually gonna break 7000rpm soon just like Xu Xin). I've seen the bounces on his loops getting increasingly lower and everyone is having much more difficulty dealing with them.... It's quite an adjustment to someone who has grown up on speed heavy powerloops.