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Haha yes don’t forget these guys would stamp or grunt loudly every shot too, so hearing which rubber they were using was kind of difficult!

Now we are waiting for TTD vs Donic Legends And TTD vs DHS Legends (probably hard to arrange this one)

And if it’s near her crossover point she can choose to drive fh inverted or bh lp. Nightmare to play against!

I know the conversation has moved along, and I realise that Deng Yaping is far from representative of all or even most lp players, but just in case anyone thinks her backhand game was all about that lp chop block, this is what should expect to happen if you played any kind of Topspin ball into...

Yes blocking and spin reversal, but also hard flat hits… gives opponents an awful ball to deal with, but tend to cause the pimples to snap off quite quickly. Sponged lp or short pips ox seems to be better lasting, but much less reversal. Maybe I can’t have everything, but I certainly haven’t...

Did you try all these? Did you make any notes about what you thought of each sheet? What about longevity? I don’t really chop with lp, I push, block and hit. I want something that gives a good amount of wobble and reversal and also doesn’t break quickly if I hit with it. I liked dornenglanz...

No particular order, and doubtless if you ask tomorrow you get a different answer! JO Waldner- so good I bought a blade with his name on, it didn’t make me play like him Deng Yaping - so good, I always liked playing with combination bats so I bought the same backhand rubber as her, I wasn’t...

A technically deficient player who hardly trained??🤣

Either Dawei 388d or Saviga Monster 77 are both cheap. Ox (no sponge) will give the funkiest effects, a thin sponged sheet will allow you to generate a little more of your own spin and may be easier to control but also easier to play against (in my experience)

This is anti not pips…Luka twiddles a bit, you can see when he has the spinny rubber on backhand that he has no real problem playing a solid “normal” shot. You can see Olah knows how to play the disruptive balls and is able to overpower Luka, this is what good players do to lp or anti players...

I think… that I need a good way to explain to my wife that she gets a weekend at home with the kids whilst I take a trip to the south of France to watch table tennis!

Great day out, wonderful players. Tin tin was just too good, Drinkhall was playing well, and was absolutely clutch at the key moments!

I feel I should apologise, making up another hybrid bat…hopefully pimples play similar but are more robust than dornenglanz, they are definitely cheaper!

C’est mignon🤣

So failing on flatness or thickness demonstrates an astonishing lack of attention to detail / professionalism. . . Unless it passed when he measured it himself, but somehow the sponge expanded (further) between his pre warm up self test and the post game test😪

Li Ning team China shirt not hard to find, or cheap to buy! Gewo shirts look nice, Are there Loki, Dawei, Saviga, Yinhe etc shirts? Although now we have a club shirt I don’t tend to wear my TSP or Andro shirts very often.

There were 3 rows of around 30 seats either side of the table on finals day (I counted because I was interested in getting an idea how many people were watching), and then the bank behind the end of the table. So close to 200 by sides of table. Then 50 or so seats at the end of the table in 3...