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With the new mens world rankings issued today, I've been doing some stats. First, I've taken in consideration each major nation's density, how many athletes they have so, in the top 100 and in the top 200, as of today: 1- China: 13 in the top 100 - 18 in the top 200 2- Japan...

Waldner did the same, he was rarely high lobing but must of the time"controling" in the backhand diagonal at mid distance with mid high spinny backhands. This is what Gauzy does most of the time.

Pitch, the best player in the US now, is rated 4036 in France, and Alexis is 4386. The last match shows the difference. Xiang Peng is 4354, Félix 4434, Peng has already beaten Félix, then félix has beaten Peng in WTT Montpellier. Quadri is 4366, both have beaten félix with less than 100 pts...

This is the problem with ELO rating modified in the USATT: volatility. Now with more years and more experience of what the FFTT and the WTT have shown us, the inflationist rating seems better: it shows to non-expert people WHY actually Félix is so much better now than Simon, or why WCQ and LSD...

When I said in France a 1300 could win a 1500, it's actually right here: the 1 over 4 chances. So it happens a lot more. An FFTT 1300 = USATT 1800 and an FFTT 1500=USATT 2000. You're in the middle class here in France, as the average level is way higher than in the US. The normal/average club...

If you lob but cannot get back fast enough at the table when your opponent plays a drop shot, then ... don't lob. 1- a good lob is a long and high one, not just behind the net or mid table so your opponent can easily kill you with a power shot or a drop shot. 2- a very good lob is long, high...

1-JP Gatien, the most acoomplished footwork in TT history: winning almost a grand slam with no backhand. The best lefty in TT history. 2- JO Waldner, he invented almost everything in the modern TT, the backhand flip excluded. 3- Zhendong Fan, for his smile, his fighting spirit, his nice soul...

My coach always told me 1 chance over 4, and then he described all the 4 chances as the 4 crucial moments in a chess game: - openings, with whites, mostly how much you've read books and historical games, thinking deeper here doe not matter that much, it's mainly about rote learning that's why...

It's like a 1300 beating a 1500 in french regionale leagues, PR, R3 or R2... it happens almost each week :ROFLMAO:

I've played countless of chess tournaments, and indeed a 2300 player is most of the time a FM, FIDE Master, and a 2500 one is sometimes a GM, Grand Master, IM International Master being in between, there are some 2300 IM but most of the time it's players that have lost games and went down from...

In french its JNY, Jianan Yuan, smarty... we place the first name before the name, like Yingbin Xu when he plays for La Romagne, you want us to respect your country ? do the same in return, as Jianan is french. Just imagine if we did something like Rolland Jules, or Bertrand Irvin, where's the...

2E is not THAT wide, I'm 2E and uses BTY Lezoline Rifones, the Lezoline Mach are a tad wider, made that should be ok

I agree but not even that far, as it's based on the elo system. There are very few points gained when a 2700 wins a 2750 for example and vice-versa, and FZD, WCQ and LSD being the top guys obviously, I'd say they would not even go to 2950 or 3000. Magnus Carlsen has never been ranked higher than...

No I didn't that's why I've said it was easier to win an event that is hapenning every 2 years. He's not better than Gatien in that case, If you want to put Ma Lin before Gatien, that's up to you. I was just mentionning Dan's biases for not putting Gatien into the conversation, Mizutani, really...

I'm all for piezo electric, we use them to mike upright basses, electro-acoustic basses or electro-acoustic guitars, they work very well and can transcribe any variation possible. I'd better use a coppolymer piezo electric fiber like Arkema makes; basically you could run a piezoelectric fiber...

Whateva happened, it says a lot about how ITTF and WTT are conducted after the the last election drama: it's bullshaït You never see that in any other sport. No one has ever hacked the FIFA channel (and everyone knows the never ending dramas there since decades !)

My list based on facts, not biases: 1- JO Waldner, the first ever to achieve a grand slam and in 3 years only, deserve the first place for history and 2 WTTC 2- Ma Long, 2 grand slams, only 1 Olympics away from a third one 3- Fan Zendhong, 1 grand slam, and because he's got 4 World Cups, 2...

Where's Gatien ? the french has achieved more than Schlager, Persson and Timo being only 1 final away from a grand slam. You're completely biased Dan.

No, it's not for that purpose, using fluo shirts is mainly intended to distract your opponent and making yourself bigger than you are, that's why goalkeepers in handball or football use fluo shirts: that way they look bigger, flashy, and it gets harder for the penalty kicker to find the right...

That's the reason why IMHO everyone should lacquer inner carbon blades, I've kept a Waldner Diablo Senso for 2 decades that way, maybe the inner glassfiber layer helped ? there's actually glassfiber fabric all over the walls in my kitchen and bathroom, it's there since at least 2 or 3 decades...