Considering over 75% of the field was Filipino it’s not that’s surprising imo. It is my favorite tournament of the year watching all the monsters from the Philippines.
I’d take Aleksa over everyone on that list except Woj. Considering this was his first go at it and he won over 70% of his matches I’d say he played pretty well.
This event went pretty much how I expected with ROW as stacked as they were. I also thought Aleksa played very well for team ROW which shows how much depth Europe has.
Albert Januarta is the final pick for team Asia. I like team ROW in this one. Having Manas and Januarta makes team Asia very young and inexperienced. I think Yapp would have been the better pick personally.
Savannah is consistently running deep in tournaments at 16 years old against the best women players in the world. I’d say that is definitely a sign of good things to come.
Best match I’ve seen live was when Filler beat Wu 13-10 in the 2019 US Open at Mandalay Bay in Vegas. High level play and some drama at the end when Wu fouls due to his bridge hand slipping.