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I want to vent a bit about countries that have one player too far ahead of everyone else. Worse than Harimoto has ever really had it. Kiril is also not longer on the list as he now has a legit #2. Hopefully Hugo will leave the list as well some day. China wants to join the list but we shall...

Leon has what it takes, hopefully she will stick with the sport.

Surjan complains about a supposedly sweat ball serve. It was funny though how that serve died off her paddle... Her team smartly calls a timeout to refocus her and she wins the game.

There are no targets, if you don't know or train the players, it is best to just keep quiet. The people who are working with them are spending more time on such things than fans ever will. For a long time Petrisaa Solja was told she needed to lose weight even when she was playing her best TT...

I see what you mean. Very powerful and athletic player, hopefully the "needs to lose weight" brigade don't use her as a new target.

About 2 hours 40 minutes in. https://www.youtube.com/live/1_PAzpMs9tE?si=R8mmv8lXhCcGvswu

Looks like they want to use the matches to build the confidence of their core.

It is table 1. Last match yesterday on youtube.

Olympics and ITTF events are different I believe. I think United Kingdom/Great Britain exists for Olympic events and that Hursey will be part of some British team with Tintin as you desire. Soccer is an exception and I am sure people Pl e from Britain understand the nuances better but yes...

As. European citizen maybe. As an American cirizen, not so much. Also a bit harder to justify in many countries because children who are good at table tennis also tend to be good at the other major intellectual disciplines that earned more money before LLMs and AI came along. So most people...

That's the most material friendly forum on the internet with lots of pips and anti players. Good call. I have seen a lot of players over 50 go to pips and anti this past two years and not because of Sabine and Luka. It seems they are just tired of backhand play against younger players and...

OP is getting stuck at a level that is not a good sign for his future potential. Just keeping it real. The Lebakas got further pretty fast as well beyond the 2000 level. as well. Unfortunately, the new USATT ratings list doesn't make it easy to show such trajectories like the old system did.

The thing is that if OP was on a rapid improvement trend and after being 1800 a year ago was now closer to 2100 or 2200 officially there would be something worth discussing. I have seen kids make more progress in 9 months or a year of playing than he has in the past 1 year plus of posting here...

Sabine was very honest in the post-match interview, there is a real risk of not making it.

Was wondering who this Simeon Martin that beat Adrien Rassenfosse was. This was insightful: https://ttcanada.ca/athlete-profile-simeon-martin/

This is universally acknowledged and when he was younger, I remember some analysts arguing that his placement and overall game was unimaginative and just athletic. But the flip side is that people somehow in the absence of data think such consistency has less to do with spin/speed and is just a...

Hitting harder is something that is always relative especially when there are no measurements around. In any case, we can agree to disagree, I am fairly confident even with Kanak's opinion, if they were all put into measurements, FZD's ball would be easily one of the highest. But the extreme...

Yes. It is because he continues to play with backhand orientation. Forehand orientation requires constant movement and energy. The speed is tied to the style, it is a style that needs to change.

You were citing when Fan was younger - the ball slowing down has made consistency more important than quality unless you have extreme amounts of energy. The truth is that even when comparing players nowadays, no one's rally ball other than maybe Hugo is that special anymore. Even Quek said...

Beyond the announcement that he became a Tibhar player, I can't find him on their website - very puzzling... PS: He is in their catalog though, just not listed among the pro players on the Tibhar website...