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Korea's week in Otocec was pretty impressive. Cho Daeseong won in MS, Park Gahyeon in WS, Kim Minhyeok & Park Ganghyeon in MD, Kim Hayeong & Lee Eunhye in WD. It was an almost perfect tournament for the NKT, they only left the XD to others (Robles & Xiao).

Sanwei Gear Hyper is not tacky. A good rubber, rather grippy, but not tacky.

My son uses a blue VK as his backhand rubber on an inner carbon blade (Sanwei CC) and he loves it, it provides an almost perfect combination of control, precision, speed and spin. I have used it a couple of times, it's really balanced and easy to play. I guess that on outer carbon or bricky...

It was not a problem with Xiao's spin but of consistency. Wang had two consecutive setpoints in the first game but lost them, and then she made a lot of forced and unforced errors in the second and third games. Maria Xiao is playing in a very consistent way this year and getting very good...

In Europe this is not extraordinary. Where I live (a small town 35km from Barcelona) there are probably more than 60-70 clubs within a 1,5h radius. Most are small TT clubs, but many play national leagues and four of them even in the Spanish Superleague, with top players like Yaroslav Zhmudenko...

The most important is that at least one of the parents to be a former professional player. The best kids in Spain are sons of players or coaches. All of them. The best one is a 10 yo kid whose both parents were professional TT players and are currently coaches. He is already playing the Spanish...

My son has been using Vega Korea blue as his backhand rubber for half a year and we've noticed no shrinkage. It's a wonderful rubber indeed, fast and with a lot of spin. Backhand topspin is really easy to control.

Interesting to see that unboosted H3 can be a preparatory step into the Dignics world!

Thanks for sharing your views. I didn't expect that so many people is using unboosted H3, even BS. My H3 OS is not a Neo, but it's still lively enough. I usually use a mid-hard rubber like Sanwei Gear Hyper, H3 is not my main FH rubber yet, but I really like it's feeling.

Recently,I've been using an unboosted commercial H3, 39 degrees, on my FH. I just wanted to try how an unboosted H3 felt, I expected a completely dead rubber, but I really like it. I feel it's powerful enough when you use a whole-body FH technique, really spinny and with a lot of control, and it...

I also got a blade order cancelled, a Stuor Long 5 which was 10€ cheaper than in other shops. The seller told me that they are out of stock, but the blade is still on the list of 11.11 sales. The refund was fast, but I lost a 5$ coupon that I used when I bought the blade. Aliexpress says that...

The final live: https://www.ettu.tv/en-int/livestream/malmoe-table-1/1630820

Live streams here!

I share some inside info about the players perspective on this initiative. Yesterday I had the chance to talk to one of the Spanish participants in the MLTT at a tournament in the Barcelona area. He and one of my club's coaches played the RR in the same group , and after their match we talked...

Isaacdl, this is an amazing project, with a lot of potential among non Chinese TT audiences. I'm not an expert but I collaborate with neuronal translation experts and I know the kind of difficulties you are facing. Machine translation has improved dramatically in the last few years and it is...