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Japan should just make Qiu the men's NT coach

It was available in Korea and then never saw a wider release.

Yeah it's insanely confusing and I neither read nor speak Mandarin. Here is a link to the version I bought: https://www.superbuy.com/en/page/buy/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitem.taobao.com%2Fitem.htm%3Fid%3D860333618183& These are the flagship versions of Magnificent (their beginner rubber) and...

Purchasing two sheets of the Ghenghaida Flood "Flagship Version", 38 deg with blue speed sponge. The red top sheet with blue sponge (which Yang Xiaoxin uses) comes in only 38 and 39 deg, and the speed sponge is, according to them, better for close to the table attacking which is more my style...

Peng Yu-han Timo Boll ZLC Moristo SP AX Mega-Block

Lim Junghoon: Artemenko:

https://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/tabletennis/news/2026/01/041120.html Mima Ito says she struggled against Saya Yamamuro because of the latter's backhand rubber, Bomb Hammer, as the no spin balls made timing her smashes difficult.

Thanks for pointing this out. I'm not super familiar with Spinlord so I was just guessing. I went back and looked at a lot of photos and I think we can narrow this down a lot. So we know it's a medium pip most likely, and it's horizontally aligned, and it's made by Spinlord. There are 9 "out"...

That's definitely the Spinlord logo. Dornenglanz would be my guess.

She uses short pips on both sides now. Bobrow mentioned during one of her matches last year that both of them are in max thickness. You are correct that they're very similar. One is Rakza PO and the other is Speedysoft D.Tecs, both of which are horizontally aligned shortpips. It's definitely an...

With all due respect, I don't think you understand what "custom" means. Anything that is crafted for a specific purpose is "custom-made". Just because the disparate components are available to other people doesn't mean it isn't custom. Butterfly, and all other companies, make equipment for the...

Niu Guankai using the Double Fish Zhou Qihao Xu Haidong using the Yasaka Deep Penetrate (yes that's the name).

This is not true and has never been true and I have no idea where you got this idea because it's easily proven false. Wang Hao was using Sriver with a Bryce sponge over 20 years ago. Kunihito Tasei (now former JNT men's head coach) spoke to World Table Tennis magazine about how Butterfly made...

They were apparently dating for some time. Their breakup may have been fueled by the fact that Zhou Qihao is on the fringe of the NT whereas Chen is obviously a star player. According to this article, they (I guess meaning the CTTA) no longer forbid the players from dating each other, but they...

https://buyee.jp/mercari/item/m92769064516? Someone on Mercari is selling a purported Golden Viscaria meant for Lin Shidong. A bargain for only $2400.

Add Xue Fei to the list. Only noticing this now, but Shibata switched to the S968 after Havirov last year. She also started using Genextion V2C.

Thank you for reminding me as I’m very forgetful. I forgot to weigh it, but it definitely felt quite hefty, though I appreciate that as a long pips player since you lose a lot of overall mass which has led me to swinging faster and messing with my timing. Definitely tackier than the last...

Noticed Batra switched rubber colors, and upon some digging see she switched pips as well. This *looks* to be Dawei 388 D-2. I'd like better photos to confirm. Kihara's new Tibhar blade the Kihara Bingo

https://www.yasakajp.com/goods/malin/ On the Japanese website, Yasaka still has the collection listed as Ma Lin, but none of the blades are available. If I had to guess, Ma Lin likely terminated his contract with them so he could use his likeness somewhere else.