[thom]

While Ding did put himself under pressure in many games by taking long thinks in situations where it didn't really seem to benefit him, the pressure he put himself under in the final game was different. He forced a very uncomfortable endgame because he clearly thought he could draw it on autopilot. When he blundered he had 10 minutes on his clock and 30 second increment, he wasn't really under enormous time pressure, but it was a nasty position of his choosing. Either way, hard to have sympathy on a strategic level, as devastated as he clearly was in the moment.