Recent content by NextLevel

I agree with a few caveats. Game processing speed is arguably the biggest thing that separates stronger players from weaker players obviously, people need to play at a distance that lets them read the game while not being so far they need too much movement to get to the ball. For blocking...

One of my coaches introduced me to a drill that I use a lot when coaching. So you basically can do this with any sidespin or just straight serves. So I would serve a long backspin serve, a long topspin serve, a long no-spin serve, a long pure sidespin serve (either left or right) and then a...

Stop wasting everyone's time. The JTTA addressed a problem with fairness and now you are accusing them of addressing it badly simply because they didn't get everything right when in reality, they just about provided the only system that would have resulted in the team they currently have as...

Is table 1 restricted again? I know. I am talking about that. He is paying the consequences for missing three drug tests. It should not be easy to come back so that people don't do it for fun.

He missed three drug tests. He will be more careful next time.

Tried to see whether I could get Skyline TG2 to block better if I out it on the Cybershape. Epic fail. So I cannot use Skyline 2 on my backhand because I cannot block sitters to hungry Texan attackers looking for balls to drive. I have to work more aggressively on reading and adjusting my...

So I tried to see whether I could rehabilitate Skyline 2 on backhand by putting it on both sides of a Cybershape. Maybe the issues with blocking were because the blade was slow...well no, the blocking still sucked on the Cybershape Carbon. Skyline 2 is the first rubber in a while where I have...

He will be fine in the long term, definitely with the continental boost but even without it. It is just the pressure of things at the current moment that will affect him a bit since the Olympjcs is on the horizon.

That's not how I remember it but that said, at the highest levels, these things tend to blur anyways. But hitting through the sponge has always been how non-tacky rubbers get their best spin while tacky rubbers respond to brushing, the main difference as I remember it is that tacky rubbers tend...

Former World Champion in Jia A, of course there must be some spotlight.

Exactly - a lot goes back to whether fairness is a good or bad thing. China has a lot of talent so it isn't obviously a problem yet, but all it will take is for them to start losing a few and then there will be a real debate whether the system is sufficiently meritocratic or not, even with...

I don't think separation by association is as big a deal as avoiding China before the QF - if Hirano by some miracle falls into Shin Yubin's quarter, I think that will be sufficient. Though of course, if they were sending Miwa, they would likely have the 4th seed as long as she defends Tunis...

You should take your time to read what you just wrote - you are pointing out that Hirano would have turned her focus to WR even though the PDR didn't allow her to enter events. And you are arguing that Hayata maintained her WR because of things she did in 2021 that Hirano supposedly couldn't...

Jules did his homework well. And he has the quality of topspin to put Kanak under pressure.

Ma Jinbao makes it, Kanak does not.