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It's a little difficult to understand, but let me try. If you mean that it's better to receive a pendulum with FH, then it's correct. But if you serve into opponent's middle or not so deep/wide into BH that he can pivot, then he'll blast this ball along the line or inverse diagonal. Do you mean...

Great you are doing this, just don't expect instant improvement. In TT progress can be rather slow. I'd suggest doing regular practice first: one FH from the middle, one from the FH, another from the middle, etc. just to taste the sidesteps. From my point of view, the blocker's placement was...

Patrick sparks every now and then, but he's unreliable. Right now he can play as he pleases, there's nothing at stake, he has nothing to lose. Dima and Timo fight well exactly under pressure.

It's side topspin, but Harimoto does a half assed drive with the racket angle adjusted for the side spin, rather than a chop. His racket moves left to right and slightly up.

Yes, this should be articulated specifically, albeit it's obvious. @driversbeat One should just hit through the ball with the pips.

Yes, everything that forces you to do sidesteps (later cross steps) and coordinate them with the strokes. You see, it's not that you don't have it, just look at how you hit the smashes: you get an opportunity, you approach, you hammer it. Very well played. But when you hit normal drives, there's...

True, but WTT/ITTF have to get new commentators somewhere. I guess they are trying to grow a new generation and practice makes perfect. Not to mention that Bobrow has probably other things to do than commentating a WTT event every other week.

That's a decent level: there are great BH loops, a couple of awesome FH flicks, a couple of great smashes. I've noted a couple of things, and albeit I don't think they differ very much from what was pointed out above, let me approach this exercise. 1. The footwork. For consistency you have to...

It's actually the only important thing. You can't remove the nationality from the equation, it's the whole point. I know for a fact that if not the financial pressure and immigrant's struggles Samsonov could've become much, much more than he is now. Butterfly targets German market with German...

But who's gonna celebrate Samsonov? "The last European dictatorship"? With a tiny broke national association and no political influence? Germany? Belgium? Why would they do so, when they have their national players? There's no European nation, and even if EU were one, he's not even from EU.

Again, I read what's written and I don't care too much even if it was (not so much) elaborate setup in the way you described it above, tbh. The word "racism" obviously bears no meaning here: Samsonov's look would be considered more or less local in any European country. Was it in one post...

I did read the discussion. zeio had suddenly changed the topic completely. One could find it weird, but he doesn't have to continue advocating WTT/its unfairness/"ETTU obligations". Pretty obvious that this Samsonov post has little to do with Aruna, whose issues have a separate thread, btw. Or...

Look, you can, of course, exercise the idea why he has suddenly changed the topic and what was on his mind, but unless you are a mind reader all what you wrote hasn't been in zeio's post. Totally legitimate question: why is Samsonov not as celebrated as Boll in the west. I don't see anything...

You can't really read when you're so agitated, can you? zeio wrote on a completely different topic: > Semi-related to World Cup. I've always wondered. > Speaking of racism (since Aruna brings it up, why not?), has Samsonov been subjected to it just because he is from Belarus? It's a...

I really have troubles understanding how you got this: from this: > why is Boll much more celebrated in the West ? [i.e. is it because of racism against (Belo)Russians]

I think half of the problems can really be circumvented by placing a third umpire (or one of the two) in the front view of the table, behind one of the players. I've seen it somewhere in the lower German/Austrian leagues: they have (had) 15 seconds clock against stalling and this third umpire...

Gauzy was just gauzying as usual. It's not his first rodeo.

By "sweat" you mean water condenses on the rubber? And only Ma Long and WCQ need to dry (coincidentally tacky) topsheets with their dusty towels, whereas nobody else notices water on their rubbers? I mean, I wouldn't be able to play with wet tenergy either. Or water just condenses on tacky rubbers?

I've seen Ma Long and Wang Chuqin both tapping their rackets against the towels—I guess—to reduce the tack. Looks like these guys don't see tackiness as an advantage.

I wonder how ITTF have even come up with these ugly win-loss ratios? It always used to be a difference. Now they have ratio of 4/4=1 and 8/0=1, total absurdity.