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Unless you see the player and how they hit the ball, discussing durability and rubber care is relative. By the way, my rubners look like trash and people tell me to clean them with rubber cleaner but I still get great spin from them so I have realized that optics beat performance for too many.

I hear you but the injuries have to be the key. Even players like Solja got to age 28 despite them. Ai Fukuhara got to 29. Lacking motivation is clearly not in the cards for Hirano. But injuries is fair game.

You think she concedes that Odo is better? I don't see it unless she has unpublicised nagging injuries.

From a rankings perspective WTTC is not what it used to be so it will be interesting to know the masterplan.

Kanak as a junior always had more feeling with the backhand than the forehand and it is natural for you to need to adjust the side of the racket that comes less naturally to you. I suspect his forehand is more sensitive to rubber changes than his backhand.

Depends on the person's forehand!

Her hand is getting better? Wow....

So in addition to adopting the Mizutani elbow positioning in order to make my stroke more tightly tied to my body rotation, I am trying to do some physical work to improve my overall strength with a focus on glutes more than anything else. Will be interesting to see how well it works if at all.

I think he has been cleared and is going to play but you might have heard something else.

Bump....

The first serve I could get serious deception on vs good players was the backspin vs no spin combination and as my backspin serve improved, the deception improved tremendously. In general, I find that amount of spin is easier to deceive people with than the decision between top/back. I used...

The problem with being the open rally guy is that a large amount of TT improvement is tied to being more dangerous on the first four balls (or at least being more safe). In fact with this new ball, I have often done the test of serving plain serves and other than against the blockers, my level...

It depends on placement. It is always easier for a serve to the backhand to be directed back to the backhand side and a serve to the forehand to be directed to the forehand side, the sidespins can make certain angles harder on passive play but those rarely tend to override the ease of going...

Sticky on wood is not that smart . Many people who use sticky on wood let the stickiness degrade over time. The new balls are also too slow so it is not just you and age, the plastic balls have changed the game.

There are three keys: The first is to play all your strokes at different speeds. People who try to swing hard all the time end up swinging hard all the time and when their power or timing is off, they have no plan B. If you swing at different speeds with different levels of power, you get a...

Still not smart in my humble opinion if you are advanced players looking for short strokes and easier speed. But everyone does this differently...

Sometimes I wonder wherher Tablw tennis has distorted my body lol... Usually I thought it was ideal to play the forehand besides me, backhand in front of me. But I am thinking tha maybe I had it wrong and my forehand and backhand should both be played in front of me just one with some body...

Maybe it is a mechanism for preventing a team from keeping mercenaries on the roster during the regular season without using or paying them and then unleashing them during the playoffs.

I have a friend who received serves from him recently in the US. He said he struggled with Craig's pendulum serve more than his legendary punch serve and that Craig had a way of serving the pendulum that led you to underestimate how much spin was on the ball because the ball lacked forward...

He can make more spin than most of us with normal equipment.