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It's like the fact that Chen Xingtong showed up as a last minute replacement for Wang Manyu and therefore didn't go through serious training has no impact on your assessment. In any case, I would have been surprised if we didn't get the obligatory Hirano puff piece.

Something about the environment or the ball is really rewarding spinny play.

Looks like Hayata is trying to make zeio miserable. The Chinese had better right the ship or zeio's infamous Tieba users might all have a heart attack.

This is an old recommendation that unfortunately the ittf has shown no interest in.

Looking at He Zhuojia's draw, she barely survives Sreeja Akula at deuce in the 5th, then she blanks Harimoto and Shin. Makes you wonder...

There is always time to prepare the major team better.

Usually the advice to be ready for the long serve is to have a defense against a fast long serve, not to prepare for a slow long serve. If it is shortish looking, really short serves are usually slower so there is time to get into the table and play a decent return though you are right that...

A short serve that is tight (low to the net) and hard to attack is an extremely hard thing to do consistently without world class training and even with such training, the variations in playing environment can upset the players. In fact, way way too often at our amateur levels, too many players...

From someone who was trying to make fun of me for claiming that Xue Fei was a clone for the RPB penholders that China faced (Felix and Qiu) or that Qian Tianyi could clone Hayata, your first statement sounds a lot like a measured reversal of opinion, even if we are not on the same page. I'll...

WTT strikes again. Spanish players were really nice.

He played like Felix completely by accident. Absolutely nothing to do with clone practice for Felix and Dang, absolutely nothing.

Different players are speaking about different things specific to different situations. No point combining all the videos to create a new confusion. How the wrist moves is also not necessarily how the body or arm is moving at the same time. The main point the coach in the video was...

He is playing the only European who i think can win a world championship in singles so IMHO, he did extremely well.

When you develop the hand speed and can judge the ball after a lot of practice, it becomes far less risky than you think, even when your paddle hits the table.

It assumes some things that it doesn't make explicit about thr way you approach the ball. But the main point is not to spin upwards, but to spin forwards. The other subtle point that is easy to miss is that a windshield wiper goes up and down and forms a mound/mountain.

Well he has lost to two CNT upstart in a row now so countermeasures have clearly been deployed and he has work to do.

Shin also lost some of here competitive junior years to injuries. But she is still 20. While there is always injury risk, there is a lot of time to get better over the next cycle.

No. Don't give him excuses. People are allowed to just complain about BS. The idea that a teenager/20 year old should be characterized by her limitations is bewildering. And this is in the presence of obvious achievements. I have always found it interesting how in doubles, lefties get all...

Well it is before the World Championships, they have time to learn lol. Now will Kenji do the right thing? Inquiring minds want to know...

Service is a creative activity and there are many grips that allow you to get good spin, even though they might have some limitations. Aruna doesn't serve that much pendulum and mostly serves punch and backhand. Trust me the spin is max, even the straight backspin and no spin he occasionally does.