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One of the best ways to identify a good coach (and this is uncommon) is to see how much interest they naturally take in your play when you are not with them.

The pendulum itself almost always ends up behind the body, side on serving is very difficult to make clean. Where Ma Long tends to get credit is that his contact is *usually* visible, but his toss almost always goes behind his head, but the racket contact is usually visible. In general, FZD...

I don't know about underwhelming, given that Liang was firmly behind even the likes of Jang Woojin and Lin Gaoyuan behind the likes of Koki Niwa, unlike Wang Chuqin who was largely struggling with older teammates. I think that in full context, both Lin and Liang outperformed their youth...

It is crazy that we might actually get a triple gold winner in table tennis and a triple gold winner at a WTTC sometime in the future. 2023, he was there, but there was so much respect for FZD that no one ever seriously discussed it. I thought SYS could get there on the women's side but she...

For the singles I agree with you, but for the Teams, I think the other teams have upped their game sufficiently that Boll is a better insurance policy than Franziska. Just my opinion.

Pretty much. Boll will have to get his ranking back into the top 15 to get taken seriously again. But I think Germany will be fine with or without him. They are the European Games champs. Boll will likely be the reserve player in case of injury.

You forgot one to-back :D.

Yeah, it is common "wisdom" to disregard LJK's actual performance level and focus on the hot player of the moment. Boy, he is a big ball of nerves, but he mostly comes through for the coaches.

Well, the last time, LYJ had match point. I wonder what counters the CNT will have for him. But if he beats LJK, it will be the first.

I think the next two matches have quick finish potential.

While he should retire soon, this is the last time I underestimate Timo Boll - I will just say I don't know next time I want to pick a winner.

You can beat this thing to death, but table tennis is not soccer. And even in soccer, Romario was a chain smoker, there are exceptions, the most important thing is whether your performance is up to par or not. The point is not to advocate for complacency, the point is to be the best version of...

If you say so. Professional athleticism is fundamentally evolutionary, so you have to build upon what already exists, anyone who has followed the career of Liang Jingkun knows that this is close to the best physical shape he has ever been in. But people who just want to talk without knowing...

Well, I guess the good thing is that he is still a top 5 player and 3 time world championship bronze medalist. At a certain point, you have to accept what you are and just make the best of it. He is fit relative to prior versions of himself yet people still fat shame him on the Internet even...

Don't be fooled, there are reports of Timo having the same injury he had in Houston. And the longer this game goes on, the better for Liang. Timo will get tired after all this whether he wins this game or not.

Yeah, but it is amazing how hard it is for her to stably win points when they start rallying with her. After game 3, you felt the match had a foregone conclusion.

Nah, the reason is not the Cybershape. There are many players who use the Cybershape who play chiquitas, one can look at Jon Persson as one example. If you actually remember Truls game well before he started using the Cybershape, he didn't backhand loop or play the chiquita so it is...

Which CNT players has he played and how do you define "not been very good"? Whose results vs the CNT in the top 20 in Europe or Asia have been very good by comparison?

The hand often follows the ball even when it has left the hand, this is why many decent tosses look worse because many people are looking at the separation as a measure of toss height, while physically, it is about where the ball initially left the hand.

But that is the serve that Timo typically does, it never looks right, but people underestimate what 6 inches really looks like.