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The whole drill in the first video is misconceived. It is arguably a good start for a beginner, but for match play, it is rubbish and dangerous for an advanced player. In matches, practical considerations dictate that the footwork movement and the backswing need to be combined or one will...

They say she was injured, whether she was and to what degree is anyone's guess because while she claims she wasn't, sometimes someone who has never played at the Olympics may downplay issues with her form that others can clearly see. Still watching to see how the next few years go, right now...

Man, you ruined everything, I was going to wait to see how long it would take for him to acknowledge the win over a top Asian player with a post here. You did the hard work for him, he just had to make another lame excuse now. All the European(especially German) players who are beating Zhu...

The problem for Anders is that he has expressed public respect for Wang’s playing level as one of the highest ever if not the highest ever. So he will always have impostor syndrome when he is up on Wang. That 7-2 timeout spoke more to his mindset and must have given WCQ a boost. Grateful that...

Oh well... that's a huge upset... The Winter match is the difference between playing for Puerto Rico and playing for powerhouses like Germany, China etc. You can have good players but if you dont have a tactical team to make sure you are prepared for the opponents, you have to depend on talent...

You predicted a lot of upsets even in matchups with significant history. That's always a high risk betting strategy though it pays off big if you have insights others don't that make the upsets likely to happen.

Honestly, on this Coton thing, you post like someone who has never played competitive table tennis at any level. It is typical for worse players to have and lose leads against better players, especially worse players with high risk high reward styles. I have done it often enough to lower...

Sure assuming they dont rnjoy the struggle and are not doing well, which is not the case for Hirano or Ito as I pointed out (they are not Kato Miyu). Many of them (women athletes) do so well past the age of 25 and 29 is the upper limit for non-celebrities who want to have families, modern norms...

Predicting Jang over Sora but definitely all have a chance. And honestly at this stage everyone is dangerous.

Hirano beat Nagasaki in Chennai. Ito is still in this Grand Smash like all her compatriots. It is ultimately up to them but they clearly can compete if they want to. Ito is currently the greatest and most accomplished lady TT player in Japanese history. If she wants to retire she can do so...

Has Chen Yi fixed her chopper problem? Chen, Hugo, Kuai, Truls, Sun, Harimoto.

I will flip Sora to JWJ, Ito to WYD, Coton to Lebrun and Nagasaki to CXT.

But the player may agree with the umpire assessment and may not want to waste their review. The whole process is obviously a mess that needs to be rethought. But so are the serve rules in general and that mess has not been resolved either. So good luck to us all.

Yeah, sometimes, these analogies don't work because they miss the essence of the problem. In fact, the police often do get a search warrant for one reason and find evidence that incriminates related to something else and it is then a legal issue over whether that other evidence is relevant to...

The thing is that very often, when a serve is not right, you can tell it is not right, when you are asked to say exactly why it is not right, you are being forced to make an unconscious judgment conscious, which is all well and good for testing reliability, but then encourages the players to...

Yeah, Franziska slowed down and Lebrun kept looking for quality on the ball that wasn't there anymore and never fully adjusted.

Everyone is learning TTR. That said, I am a bit annoyed at this "you can only challenge a serve on one dimension" thing. To me once the challenge is made, the whole serve should just be reviewed.

They probably just used the world ranking and left out Ito because Ito probably because she expressed disinterest and didn't play the Asian Champs. Left to experts, with the CNT and the world trying to plug weakneses against choppers, there is no way Hashimoto would make the team. Which begs...

It is easier ro generate spin. It really is about what sponge hardness you like. I found that whst I saved in weight with C1 was enough for me. I havent used it in a while though. But I played it on both sides reasonably well for a few months.

Usually the decisions are the results of internal trials though they look odd when you don't understand the importance of merit to team morale. While a metric like beating top Chinese players looks good, it needs to just have a weight and be combined with other things. Usually the correlation...