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The main point about talking to the opponent and remaining 100% focused is a key point I agree with. And that is why it is often recommended that you learn to ignore such things because your focus should be on the match. Where I disagree is that there are in my experience players who play...

This isn't necessarily true. Why do many players who hardly celebrate when playing their matches start celebrating when their opponents celebrate? Are they immature because they are choing in response to their opponent? Do they now forgo the right to complain about the opponent's loudness...

I think that is one perspective for sure.

Telling them to stop is is not necessarily a negative reaction and for some people is part of the process of getting to acceptance. Who knows, maybe OP is now ready to not react "negatively" because he has finally reacted after keeping his annoyance pent up all this time.

Bode cares more about his son playing for Portugal than anything related to his career but I am sure he could and would have have contested this had it made a difference to him. He doesn't play tour events for the most part so he doesn't care. But yes, if he cared, the same arguments should be...

If your best play is a mindset that requires you to take things seriously, even if a club setting that is not serious, that is your best mindset. Whether it is balanced with other things is another story, but sometimes, it is by raising the stakes in practice that you get better at dealing with...

Points have been allocated in the past for team events before WTT ever existed but this is one of those things where I will just let people determine for themselves whether the existence of ranking points has any bearing on whether a country should be able to field a full team or not and whether...

My coach taught me that the most important thing is to believe what keeps you in the right zone of competitiveness. It was usually positive and stoic but it wasn't always positive and stoic. It required some sustainability and application to wide circumstances so therefore most coaches would...

Killerspin equipment is not used by many (possibly any) advanced/tournament players and I don't believe they have any advanced equipment any more (stuff approved for use in tournaments with experienced players). So we won't be able to give you that much insight into what the nuanced differences...

A world class player past his prime (in the late 70s and 80s) once told me he would have done something to get Harimoto's attention if he had screamed playing him. I have seen lots of subtle and not-so-subtle games manship in TT. My main point is that as much as I get the stoic approach to...

It is probably because the OP was trying really hard to win a close game/match and something that would have been mildly annoying in most contexts and ignored by him in most contexts became an opportunity to voice his hidden feelings which he couldn't suppress as well in those specific...

Yes. That said, coping with opponent's mouth doesn't mean you cannot fight the opponent with verbal retaliation if that is your preferred way of coping with the mental warfare. That is why the stoic approach is not the only approach that is correct in these situations. The main argument for...

What good is supposed to come of mocking someone's mistake in an intensely competitive situation when you are both at close quarters with each other? I know when things are cool, it is easy to just laugh off, but it can be hard to know what someone's competitive mindset requires in tight...

Would be interesting to hear the logic but as I said many times, that penalty should never have been his, it should have been Nigeria's for failure to send enough players to field a team.

Mental game is complicated. The line between strength by building mental fortitude with isolated and internal concentration and weakness by allowing praise (whose presence may strengthen but whose absence may weaken, the converse for criticism) is thin. We are inherently social animals, even in...

This was a fun tournament. 1) Again great to see that Fan's superhuman rallying abilities have returned. 2) Timo reminds us that as long as you are an athlete, you can still spin to win. 3) Alexis Lebrun reminds us why he should be playing singles over Gauzy. 4) Quadri reminded me how much he...

Let me know how it goes, I am thinking about buying one as well, seems genuinely interesting.

It is clear both players were not at 100% throughout the match. So for me, WCQ is the favorite but at least we have Fan getting back to his true power level. So that when Quadri beats him, there will be no excuses. ;) ;)

You sound like Fang Bo : he argues with good logic that for sound technical forehand players, there is always time to play a forehand so focus your stance in being able to play a backhand. It's really funny that when I play, people who don't understand my game think my backhand is a control...

How do you effectively block with pace with Skyline 2? Is Skyline 3 better for this?