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"In the most recent match I watched, player A looked really good. In fact, he won more points and sets than his opponent, player B, and therefore won the match. Wow! During the match, whenever player B would hit a shot, player A would return it at a high rate. Player A certainly returned shots...

When I was a kid I got addicted to table tennis because of the feeling of hitting a big forehand topspin shot. It felt a bit like doing magic to get the ball's trajectory to bend like that, and the shape/bounce was super satisfying. Now I have a pretty stressful and all-consuming job, and I...

It seems to me that if you really wanted to make a highly durable blade, you could make it (or ask a blade-maker to make it) out of some kind of treated or "modified" wood: https://resawntimberco.com/what-is-modified-wood/. According to this page, "The modification process enhances the...

Right, I totally agree. I would say my point was that the principle of what equipment beginners should use is actually the same in both tennis and table tennis. But it's not about slow vs. fast, it's about fault-tolerance and being easy to use. I would wager that the vast majority of players...

Carl's response is much more detailed than what I was going to say, but I'll say it anyway: just play with whatever setup makes you most comfortable and lets you make the shots you want consistently. Slower vs. faster comes down mostly to personal preference and feeling imo. On a related note...

The highest-peak (loudest) frequency is related to the membrane vibration mode of the blade's head. My understanding is this is more directly related to the "hardness" or "sharpness" of the blade feeling than its speed/elasticity per se, although it's correlated with elasticity. The frequency...

Australian Open -- Melbourne French Open -- Paris Wimbledon -- London US Open -- New York It's clear many aspects of the WTT are modeled after the professional tennis tours (plural because there are distinct men's and women's tours), with four grand slam/smash events per year and even similar...

My guess would be Jang Woojin -- we haven't seen him in a while due to an injury. Glad for Anton to get a chance! I think he can make an impact in this tournament given his recent form.

If it's right after Champions Japan, it would hopefully be somewhere in Asia. There's already a China Smash, so Korea makes sense. Interesting that WTT seems to be moving Smashes around. Understandably it may not be possible to get a long-term commitment from a host country/city at this stage...

Studying and practicing technique will let you more efficiently translate the force generated by your body into racket speed. I also think it's useful to understand how the rubber generates spin when it contacts the ball, because it gets at your question about contacting the ball more thickly...

If the opponent is consistently 3rd-ball killing every return I make, then they're either playing on fire or they're just better than me. Sometimes this happens and all you can do is congratulate them on a good performance. In the match there are some tactical things you can do to try and throw...

Hahah, well -- short pips have disadvantages too, which I'm sure you know. But aside from switching to short pips, it may help to view them as a worthy challenge which will push you to improve your game. That quick/active/brush loop is a very useful shot against all kinds of balls anyways. Long...

As you noted the ball has very little topspin on it -- so you have to create the spin yourself. But the ball is coming fast so you don't want to add much pace or the shot will be hard to control. This is hard to do if you're more comfortable blocking/driving rather than looping on the backhand...

For all this talk about illegal serving, it's interesting that LSD won 19/32 = 59.4% of points on his own serve, and 20/34 = 58.8% of points on LYJ's serve for the match. I would have expected there to be a much bigger difference if the illegal serve was such an advantage.

Minimalist: Yinhe D-715, Stiga Inspira Hybrid Carbon Maximalist: Cho Daeseong TMX Pro

Depending on which J&H you're playing on backhand (I assume it's backhand), perhaps Omega 7 Pro could be a substitute. It's very light for being a high-performance rubber. Dignics 05 is also pretty light. You could also try playing around with grip tape on the bottom part of the handle for a...

This whole thread is about H-touch and C-touch. Generally speaking they seem to be ESN's names for different kinds of hybrid rubbers. Some (most?) brands label their ESN hybrid as either "C-touch" or "H-touch" on the packaging. For example the Bluestar packaging has a big "H-touch" on the upper...

The Stiga DNA Hybrid is slightly to a lot softer (depending on the version) than Dragon Grip, so it should be slower. The DNA Hybrid H is 50 degrees for example, while Dragon Grip is 55. My impression that the H-touch are bouncier than the C-touch rubbers comes from comparing K3 (which I've...

Yeah I think it's pretty underappreciated how Harimoto's game has developed, especially since his style is basically unique among the top tiers of men's players at the moment. Your post made me think of an interesting cross-sport comparison for Harimoto: Andy Murray (now retired, but I'll...

Glad to hear there are high-profile proponents of this rule change. The proposed rule could be even more precisely be stated as something like "The server's body must be entirely behind the vertical plane intersecting the back of the ball at the moment of contact." The best position to judge...