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Well it's the conditions they set. If a player doesn't like it he can quit the national team and never play ittf tournament again.

Football players arrive several days before the match, live together in a hotel, train together.....they also have the pressure from the fans. TT player arrives, plays his matches and leaves.....it's almost like a tourist. Also zero pressure, if you lose nobody criticizes you.

There's the qualifiers for the world cup, the qualifiers for the euro, the world cup, the euro, friendly matches that your national association sets up..... total is around 10-20 matches per year. And football is a team sport so sometimes they travel to their home country, train together for a...

It's a bit like having a job and your employer is ITTF. In a normal job if you don't go you because you are sick you must present a doctor certificate. It makes sense that they force them to go, otherwise nobody would go to WTT except the chinese who always win lol. FIFA is similar....if they...

Here's the final in case anybody's interested. Alto vs a guy I estimate US-2500 ~ 2550

Here's Alto vs a US-2650 player.....and Alto is 181 in ITTF......so he's not so close to the top. Unfortunately for us a US-2200 or 2300 is barely a rather advanced amateur and here's Ma Long giving no chance to Alto. Alto I wouldn't call him a blocker but more of a lobber... a bit similar...

Because USA is where people make most money if they are elite level.....in any profession. Probably helps that the world currency is pretty much the dollar but only americans can emit this currency 😁 Personally I took lessons with high level players but they will teach you a high level style of...

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Not trying would be just pushing and blocking. Eugene was trying. The reason he won 11-1 in the third is not because he wanted to but because he was more warmed up and comfortable with the game of his opponent....who was also more demoralized at this point.