I wrote a lengthy post yesterday and lost it all. I will write another one today if I feel up it again.
Highlights:
Efren and Rubilen play like they are one person. They seem to be communicating via telepathy if at all. Rubilen's game is so smooth, pure Filipino magic and matched perfectly to Efren's. It must be a great honor to play with him and a great pressure to be his partner. But she handles it with a level of experience that seems far beyond her years.
Johnny and Jeanette are ON FIRE. They really have a fantastic chemistry going on and not only do they pump each up tremendously they both come with shots in clutch situations over and over.
Allison and Craig and Kelly and Tommy were all struggling. All good players but they never really hit the groove. Kelly and Tommy did beat the tough Chinese team of Liu and Fu after being down.
To me the team to beat right now is Efren and Rubilen. I was joking with them last night that we need to make a Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie mashup name for them, I suggested Efrilen or Rubiren, you pick........
I didn't watch Li and Si Ming except a little in practice and they are just rock solid. So of course with them being in the final four teams they are also huge contenders.
Will discuss the room, the tournament, the styles and all the stuff I wrote about yesterday later. Right now we are heading off to watch the final matches.