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Wow, Felix looks decoded!

Barely scraping by Pucar isn't entirely fair to Harimoto, Harimoto's underestimated edge against most players is his pushing and serving game, but Pucar's height makes it easy for him to attack balls over the table that other players would struggle to get to without giving out major effort and...

Mizutani and Niwa made a serviceable doubles team. I am sure Miwa and Miu will figure it out at some point. One of my high level coach friends remained adamant despite any argument that I gave him that doubles was largely roulette and that I shouldn't read too much into the results. I never...

I don't entirely agree with this, but everyone has different opinions. Advanced players like you can use anything. For a player who is not advanced, the most important thing is to get into the mode of topspinnng on both sides with ease and using something that is designed to facilitate that...

Yeah but how is the Miyuu and Joo Cheonhui pair working out? I am just saying that two righties always have a lot of work to do to get on the same page. They will get better, it is just going to take a lot of work and time, and doubles is rarely prioritized.

By the way, did you notice that the makeshift doubles team we were giving Hirano and Harimoto flack over losing too also beat the Chinese Taipei team 3-0?

One of them is taking the 3rd team spot, they just have to decide who.

DHK still has gaps to cover and levels to grow vs her old self, hoping she can regain more of it.

They are not close to Adam (Adam went as far as to form relationships with players and learn languages), but they are not that uninformed and I don't hate their vibe. The other play-by-play guy has been commentating TT for years and amongst all the guys who don't really understand TT, he is the...

At a high level, the strategy I will give you right now is how I play just about any pips player including choppers. Start with a lot of (disguised as backspin) float serves into the pips. You can serve them with any major serve you like as long as you can disguise the serve as both heavy...

No rubber I have ever played with takes power like H3. The problem of course is that the spin up shots Euro style are nothing compared to say Tenergy 05 or even Rakza Z, but the loop kills are singularly special, you wonder how a ball with so much power just doesn't bounce. And I haven't even...

The latter is more likely than the former, the criteria werr public and have been highly biased towards thr WTTC last year and Ma Long's inability to beat Wang Chuqin in most events last year pretty much closed the discussion.

When your play is in disarray, the only way is to EJ lol. I had built a Donic Carbospeed with H3 on both sides but I juat didn't like how it played. I tried to move the rubbers onto other paddles but they just didn't fit. So I stuck them on a Mazunov and they fit. And the bounce didn't seem...

Because based on the criteria initially established (and amended to exclude WYD), those are the only settled qualification competitions. ML"s saving grace for teams might just be that everyone is losing. Otherwise, I suspect his susceptibility would be a bigger issue.

Usually, failing to beat a long pips player around your level who you play fairly often is a sign that you are just not consistent. And you are honest about this which is good, but dont want to accept the solution (to slow down, and play balls that land on the table and also develop adaptable...

Anyone know the name of Manika Batra's coach?

A lot depends on the overall relative playing speed/frequency of the equipment. And competitively, a lot depends on the quality of the opposition. There are rackets I can use to play with opponents 500 pts below me, but against same level opponent, it is a complete waste of time. Also, if a...

Alkhadrawi is a beast of sorts, I remember him because he either beat or challenged a highly skilled Nigerian (I think it was Bode Abiodun) - definitely not chopped liver and on a good day is world class.

Hirano beating Chen Meng is not going to happen. They just paved the way for CM to play singles and it's going to take more than Hirano to stop her (or maybe they will conspire to help Hirano stop her to bring back Wang Manyu - I love conspiracy theories...)

Sweden showing they have a legit XD team for medalling purposes. Or maybe Korea should change theirs?