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Congrats to the JNT and Miwa in particular! Can't forget about Hurricane Miu's contributions too, she's what Miwa's brother missed on his team when he pulled off the two wins!

Let's go Miwa!

Let me try another way of explaining it. You know how your racket moves in an arc when you loop, like a part of a circle? Shorten your stroke and make the arc smaller, as if it's a part of a smaller circle.

I've been fine tuning my BH, getting better at leading with my elbow as well as body usage, with the goal of maximizing quality. Every now and then I switch back to a Vis series blade (my Vis, TBALC, or FZDALC) and the consistency improves significantly. The speed too, but probably at the...

I believe that in general, for these teams matches if they get any WTT rankings points then all teammates who play get the same amount, which is probably still a lot for Faraj.

Does he get any? This WTT points system is just not very good at actually telling you players' levels. A player could be in a real rut but until their points expire nothing will be reflected in their ratings.

I wonder if the seamless ball really does take some significant adjustment and evens the odds for the competing teams. Other than the heavily spin based LJK, all the Chinese players both men and women played worse than expected in their first match (I guess not enough is known about Shi and Su...

His technique is not stable enough IMO. He needs to be able to play with tremendous spin when he's not feeling comfortable. LSD learning to do so on the FH side is what allowed him to make the leap to the top echelon this year, and LJK having been always capable (in fact that's his preferred way...

Both Chinese teams are pretty vulnerable this year as each is without 2 of their best players. Still the favorites of course, but much more interesting than normal years. Nice draws BTW. On the women's side I hope to see the Hayata vs Shi Xunyao match. Shi gave WMY all she could handle, would...

Anyone know why Japan men's team didn't play Sora?

The LSD vs. Alamiyan match. It's just service aces or 3rd ball kills the entire 5 sets.

Perhaps not exclusive, but they're certainly more privileged than most.

Yeah, so the question is what is the OP referring to when he says close to the table? If it's zone 2 then it's too close for an adult who's been training with a coach for 1.5 years. If it's zone 3 then it should be reasonable.

Another interesting point. @Tony's Table Tennis often mentions how much prep the Chinese team usually gets with tournament balls and the tournament hall. Apparently this tournament is using seamless balls? Also the flooring is slicker than usual. Following so closely after the China Smash these...

The WCQ vs Alamiyan game is gonna be interesting for sure! At least both are lefties so hiding services are gonna be a lot harder.

My gosh that was an ugly game, I don't know if I've ever seen such a terrible service receive game by both players in the "no" hidden service era!

Is Iran about to pull off another big upset? Last time against Japan, now against China? That would be quite something!

LSD vs Alamiyan, the battle of hidden services.

Well, he's 2-2 and down 5-9 right now against a 14 year old Iranian so....

Something is going on with WCQ's mentality. He's struggling a LOT with balls that give him time to think.