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There is also Xue Fei from China. I think he is like 19 or so. Enviado do meu iPhone usando Tapatalk

The last one I saw playing was Cazuo Matsumoto but that was a while ago. Don’t know if he is still active. Enviado do meu iPhone usando Tapatalk

Actually now I kind of only block with TPB when the ball is in the table and I want to hit at the beginning of the bounce. When blocking an attack from the opponent I kind of like RPB because the bat is naturally at a more closed angle. You are lucky not having finger pain. I think I had it...

I have always played as a penholder. I started playing at the beginning of last year with a jpen bat and on August I switched to cpen with RPB. I had a hard time adapting to cpen and had to change my grip many times. I had a little bit pain in my fingers until I learned to have a relaxed grip...

I agree with you about penhold popularity. From what you are saying we will probably have a long gap where there will be no penholders in the top 10 players after Xu Xin and Wong Chun Ting retire. This is exactly my fear. I think once there are no penholders in the top 10 more people will make...

Hi all, last week I was wondering if I was the only one that is kind of scared that the table tennis penhold style is dying. I heard that Xu Xin is retiring after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics so we will have only Wong Chun Ting as a penholder in the top 10 world ranking. Because of that I made a...