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The logic is simple. If you call early, your opponents will have plenty of time to retaliate using the same challenge assuming hidden serve is wide spread. Germans are quite calculated in this regard.

Recardo's serves were medium height toss, just about head high, mostly clean. In Chinese serve doctrine, the body movement is part of serve motion to increase the pace and spin, just like loop. Most great servers use body movement in their serves, especially high toss (above head) serves. Low...

TTR has claimed another victim in Anton. Regular use of TTR will force most pros to change their serves including top ones. Finally, the controversy of hidden serve may have been addressed by players themselves.

What a nail-biting match between Felix and Jang, speed monster against forehand monster! It's tough to see out beloved French boy in tears after the match.

Don't have the statistics, but based on playing style, Tianyi won't fare well due to her weak forehand.

In the deciding game trailing at 4:8, struggling with Groth's serves most of the match, Dan Qiu called service fault using TTR, and he succeeded! The loss of the point rattled Groth, he lost next 4 points. Then, Dan called the TTR challenge again, and he succeeded again! Then Dan claimed the...

If you played many serious table tennis competition, you know table tennis has a huge mental part. How you perform lie largely on how you feel in the moment. Once in a while in a match, for whatever reason, you just fell so good about yourself that you didn't think you could do anything wrong...

Good question. The reasonable answer can be: The pressure, Tomo's home court support, previous coach Wang Hao's disrespect, and most likely, how a super-motivated Tomo played. WCQ's many of these all-right loopkill misses were due to Tomo's extraordinary counter loops away from the table...

One thing surprised me the most about Tomo's play today is he endured so will against WCQ's loop attack and so many shots with pace and placement. Usually one, two or three loop will win WCQ the point against any other opponent, but not to Tomo today. Frankly, that surprised WCQ caused him...

Poor XP: 'Why it's only me who had to suffer a public scolding by coach Wang Hao?' WH: 'Well Wang is number two, you are not' XP: 'Isn't true, his loss to Tomo more an upset than mine?' WH: 'Shut up!'

GOOD POINT.

Hayata moment in the final

Tomo better take game 5, otherwise, he will be in danger.

WCQ's usually reliable vicious backhand is off, pressure got him. He is a human after all.

Tomo is WCQ's semi level and WCQ is crumbling with errors. Tomo won the most rallies.

Tomo is holding his ground in the first game. WCQ committed at least 3 unforced errors.

WCQ vs Truls match surprised me even though I bet WCQ with good odds. I didn't expect a lopsided win for WCQ. Whatever words you can use, totally dominated, annihilated, destroyed,... fits the scene. The result of the game was not about how poorly Truls performed but rather how brilliantly...

Place winning odds for upcoming two men's semis:. At this level, everyone has a chance winning even one may never has beaten the other. WCQ vs Truls: 75% in WCQ's favor Tomo vs Kanak: 80% with Tomo Main Case for Truls: As a lone Chinese in the semi, WCQ and his coach face extraordinary...

By taking two games from Tomo, I do think XP performed really well. However, Wang Hao probably put a lot of effort preparing XP for the match and believing XP could have won the match if he could... Two Chinese coaches surprised me quite a bit. One was former men's head coach QZJ and WH. Both...

Chinese women's dominance continues and multi-polar world in men's. Japanese girls tried but just not good enough. In men's semi, one from China, one from Japan, one from Europe and a unexpected but welcoming one from America. However, if Truls doesn't outperform, the final will be Asians.