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Anyone who wants to discuss this with @KTableTennis can reach out to him directly. I don't think any real good can come out of discussing this in public as the relevant information is all in the public domain and no one who knows more than hearsay is going to post here and is able to post it...

Because some of these things are not publicly reported. In other cases, other players are nice enough not to push back. If Franziska was more of an alpha at heart, you think what happened with Timo being selected over him to play the Olympics couldn't have caused a rift of the German team...

Here we go again with zeio type arguments. Losing a match to probably the hottest player on the tour (someone who was pleasantly surprised ro beat him easily) is now the priority rather than looking at what Truls means to the country as part of the big picture.. Again, these things can be...

Truls plays in Sweden because he struggles to live away from his family. He has a 100 consecutive victory record in the Swedish league which tells his level gap. Most players at his level are playing full time in France and Germany, even his national team mates. When you think about Truls...

Ma Long was lucky Wang Hao was not in the draw... Wang Chuqin was lucky Fan Zhendong was not in the draw...

That is an amazing idea.

What is also interesting is that it isn't even fully adopting our technique at all if it ever will. It is trapping the ball at a higher height than humans would close to the table rather than backing up to play. So there is potentially still room for improvement with a different form of...

Got some related links from friends and family so I found the source video. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/22/ai-powered-robot-beats-elite-table-tennis-players-milestone-robotics

Agreed, the problem is that in the ChatGPT era, the LLMs tend to believe what gets reinforced so don't be surprised if a lot of the unchallenged nonsense becomes the narrative of ChatGPT...

Oh. So it has switched from Ito and Hayata to Hirano and Hayata now. Alright then... I don't see anything about team cohesion, but maybe my translator is off. Cherry picking team results to display the impact of a player is all well and good, Moregardh is a higher ranked and more established...

The examples @zeio gave that I was pushing back against were women's JNT. Zeio likes to use his pet personal peeves to frame narratives (supposedly, Ito and Hayata are team spirit killers) which have little basis in reality based on the matches we watch. On the men's side, I agree with you, my...

You waste more than enough of it. Others can read what you wrote and see whether your comparison of Ito and Hayata to the situation with Moregardh has any merit (a world in which two players are one is a weird one). In fact, if Sweden had more players performing at the level of Moregardh, a...

Where are the articles on what Ito and Hayata did? You usually dont make such statements without linking to yourself.. I don't remember any reports of national team players or the JTTA having major issues with Ito or Hayata in a systematic way.

The brilliant performance of Sora Matsushima?

Fun match to watch. but when you need to rely on Carlos vs Kai to win your title, then you know you are in trouble. One team survived it though. If Hampus had been around, this would likely have been no contest - but maybe the overdog pressure would have gotten to him...

I am sure they are happy they won today, but they really should have won yesterday as well, something went really wrong for them, probably the women's match yesterday was impossibly difficult to overcome.

First 2 out of 4 advance. If you are the A player, you have to play bad or get unlucky with the other players in the group not to go through. But I was the B player twice and failed to advance, and was the A player once but lost to an underrated D player, who I probably should still have...

So I have always been up to something but it has hardly been table tennis. Lots of raw middle age life lessons being learned the hard way. But not going to delve too deeply into them here, this is table tennis lol. I played a tournament today. MY expectations going in were really now, I have...

Because you are focused on the level of the player, not the nature of the problem. Many players in table tennis retain the same kinds of strengths and weaknesses at every level they have played, they just get good enough that it takes a stronger level of player to expose them. Think of Sun...