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Cho D has beaten Fan Zhendong before, so I find this take a bit harsh. Cho D is very young and underrated, he should express superpowers over the next couple of years and has Korean #1 potential.

The fact that there are no coaches for Tenaly blades is an underestimated point. Teaching the nuances of a grip is hard for a blade you don't understand, especially in the short game, which is the critical part of high level table tennis.

Lots of players, especially professionals, have all kinds of micro adjustments to their blades that no one will seriously discuss because they are all preferred personal preferences over time. Someone posted to my complete surprise that Steffen Mengel has a very specific handle/blade design...

Truls WTTC performance in 2021 did more for the Cybershape than any regular advertising campaign would have ever done.

Bernie still has more wins over the CNT than most of those East Asians despite not having the pressure. Let's see how it plays out.

I built one for a kid way back and he still credits it (who really knows) for the tremendous amount of spin he ended up generating on his backhand over time. They are really good for mastering spin generation because they give real feedback on your contact and stroke trajectory.

Quadri beat Lim Junghoon for the first time! Fan Zhendong still in his future?

You aren't under increased pressure to defend points you can't relinquish and points like Singapore Smash you can regain if you do well in specific events. This will take place over 4 months - let's see where Szocs ends up under "increased pressure" when she has 500pts in the bank. Same with...

I believe so, but you can't believe everything you read on the internet...

She has to fit in doubles or play the singles spot. That's the challenge, and I suspect if Joo Cheonhui was eligible, this would be less of an issue.

Looks like a power/lighting outage of sorts just hit - Taylor Swift related?

Are they really though? Remember that doubles is part of the team event. Korea likely can't play their best team in doubles in the team event as that would require both their best players. So both of them have to get used to playing with another yet to be determined partner (not sure if KNT...

Wang Manyu doesn't like curry - but I suspect she will pull through as always, her backhand topspin is really too good to be struggling like this against pips.

I don't think top 20 players are allowed to play feeder events unless they are citizens of the host country. But who knows, WTT may have changed their rules back then... For me, there are more than enough issues between injury and underperformance to make these PDR claims moot, that said, let's...

To give players in the top 20 as many chances as possible to play as many events as they can to build up their rankings for the Olympics cycle. To avoid national associations who host events using those events selectively to manipulate the rankings of players.

How does any of this explain how PDR kept Hirano from improving her ranking and how does this explain why she cannot be seeded when people like Hayata, Ito and Harimoto can be and and are? You are the one wasting time by continually defending someone with an argument that absolves her of any...

Yes, I watched that. I wonder what happened in Italy, their women have seen a level jump of sorts, wonder whether it is a coaching/environmental improvement of some sort.

The race obviously. But other handled the race and kept their rankings. It is her responsibility.

And this impacts her ranking in 2024 in what way? Again it is easy to deflect away from Hirano, but she bears responsibility for her ranking.

I guess we can agree to disagree on sample size. The point is that elements of these results can be attributed to chance. The point is that it goes in both directions. And when the results are heavily skewed by repeated matches against one player, it should just be taken as a reliable...