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Yeah. But she played subpar internationally before last month. Maybe Odo just gave her the points out of charity lol. Odo doesn't need them at the moment.

That was a surprise - looks like Yokoi is playing closer to what she does in t-League now lol... either that or Odo was completely off...

So I think our ultimate diagnosis is different. I see in OP a player who got to 1900 and misunderstood what the 1900 rating was because of how he got there, and assumed that 1900 earned after playing for a few tournaments (say 20 matches or much less) was the same as 1900 earned after playing...

In my experience, such things work far better when tied to skill development and weapons that the players actually deploy. You can't reduce your risk in tight moments if you do not have the skills to reduce your risk in tight moments. The mental aspect is often spoken about as if it is...

Traveling across the world to get knocked out by your teammate in the first round. Thanks, WTT!

You can't train mental strength apart from technical tools. That is what he meant. This is true. Even Djokovic had to improve his serve, fitness and shot selection. While he speaks about training mental strength with things like breathing, the main point is that how you use your competitive...

Some of this is open to debate since Ito beat a lot of the top Chinese at ITTF events early but never got a singles WTTC medal while Hayata hasn't beaten a lot of the top Chinese but had a singles medal, but the more I reflect on what you wrote, I can't agree that Hayata has achieved way more...

Nah. Fan Zhendong had a serial mental problem when it came to Ma Long and it wasn't really technical. It was clearly a disintegration to me and had if not happened, I think Ma Long would have been in Houston. FZD has fixed some of those issues now with his performances but it was tough to...

The details matter - I would say the first thing is to get a record of the match on video to analyze and discuss it with a better player. Sometimes, our opponents are far better than we give them credit for. Sometimes, when I play casually with people who are not table tennis players, they...

To be honest, I think in this case, it might have just been that the early success of OP led him to believe that table tennis is easier than it is. In reality, you can play well against higher level players and have significant gaps in your play that people can pick up on and exploit. One of...

I guess Butterfly doesn't count because of the prices. Their range make sense. Xiom for me is specially bad even amongst ESN. Joola and Tibhar do a much better job. Gewo is probably most similar to Xiom.

1890 is a strong rating, many players would be happy to be 1890, right now, that is about my current rating. A decade ago, I think it took me about 3 years to get to 1900 and about 4 to get to 2000 and I suspect it is harder now than it was when I did it 10 years ago, as I did in an...

You are a good player, having a level difference between practice and competitive matches is entirely normal. You have to adapt your game to different environment, different opponents, different balls etc. Your opponents look for and target your lowest game, so how you defend against...

Not really. Mizutani has heavily advocated that players go abroad to develop because playing under comfortable conditions in Japan is not going to foster their development and help them adapt to uncomfortable conditions. And for someone like Togami, it is entirely possible that they (his...

I believe they had Calderano, Gauzy and Jha for a short period. While Togami won't be always around, I don't see why he can't be a staple for league matches especially critical ones since Mizutani had something similar going on and was a staple. Calderano same thing, I don't get why he isn't...

It is basically an over the table backhand fade vs underspin/sidespin.

I believe Calderano has dual citizenship (Portugal) but I could be wrong.

The line up with Togami, Calderano and Gauzy will be scary and I guess that is what they are using to pacify the fans. But all matches count lol.

Definitely. Dima was a staple of the league before the sanctions. You have to play for a country without any strong economic political affiliations to NATO to still be playing in Russia.

Thanks for the extra context. I watched the post match interviews and figured out it was the coach. He actually played the full match today VS Steger and got annihilated. Not sure what is ailing Gauzy on the bench. But the coach should have played the full match for sure.