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  1. Why did China not field Wang Manyu after she saved them against India?

    You can read zero's post on how the Chinese sports association required objective criteria to be published by the sports associations. It is all there and it impacted who got to play matches at events that had world ranking impact. I wouldn't be surprised given your approach to posting if you...
  2. Why did China not field Wang Manyu after she saved them against India?

    The policy is for China to field the top 3 ranked players in knockout rounds. Wang Manyu was #4 at the time of the knockout rounds during the WTTTC. It really is that simple. People underestimate how much coach selection can lead to accusations of favoritism. China is traditionally...
  3. Joola Karakasevic

    He is likely in some smaller league or lower division in a big league playing somewhere. These legends can always find somewhere to play just not at the same level as before. Think He Zhiwen, if he didn't play Lebrun, you would have had no idea he was in division 2 in France.
  4. How Did I Win or Lose a Match?

    The only thing I would change in this video is the follow through on some strokes he shadows and does ‐ his actual swing on some balls has a few of my preferred follow throughs. It is still a perfect illustration of the classic way to to swing at the ball and is similar to the coach Hoang video...
  5. How Did I Win or Lose a Match?

    Liam's wrist usage is pretty standard at the world class level. I wouldn't say that everyone has to do it exactly like him. But in a sport where just having some things done better can give you a technical advantage that produces higher quality shot, well time wrist usage on the backswing and...
  6. Joola Karakasevic

    Someone in the Joola Marketing department knows what will get some people to buy blades lol.
  7. How Did I Win or Lose a Match?

    I don't mind it either way, as long as the coach has a serious plan for whoever they are teaching. It is when the coach doesn't that this causes massive problems.
  8. How Did I Win or Lose a Match?

    Yah, such videos when they are not well subtitled can be hard to explain though I can guess the intent. Table tennis is a complicated sport. My trying to explain what I think in terms of that video would be a complete disservice. For me, I just think in terms of swing planes and paths. I...
  9. ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals Busan 2024

    The biggest problem is the players have not taken the cultural responsibility to make serving obviously legal and the umpires are largely volunteers not professionals. The complexity of the rules leads to many pros serving illegally in one aspect or the other. The pendulum serve often leads to...
  10. How Did I Win or Lose a Match?

    I think it helps a lot if you can play the loop without wrist action. If your swing trajectory works without wrist, the wrist is just extra quality and insurance over the same window and largely in the same direction as the swing without wrist action. Wrist action is largely waving the...
  11. ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals Busan 2024

    Yeah but look at the number of referees they often have in other sports. Table Tennis is too complicated for the puny resources we put into enforcing the rules.
  12. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    I would encourage you to follow channels on YouTube like Squat University and Knees OverToesGuy and embrace what is possible if you do exercises that combine resistance training and stretching to build your physical strength. A lot of these things improve if you do things to get stronger. No...
  13. What is a compact stroke?

    Not at all, happy something helped, internet advice can be a crapshoot when it comes to improving someone's actual play, moreso in the absence of visual feedback. Good luck with your playing, the sport can be really hard!
  14. ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals Busan 2024

    Part of the problem with serve calls is that a protesting player can bring embarrassment to the sport over inconsistent officiating. What Hawkeye on serve faults does is take the call out of the subjective realm. In the match I watched where it was used, when the umpire called the fault, the...
  15. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Playing/training since you were a kid doesn't make you optimally trained or exposed. And while it is harder to improve or learn new tricks at an older age, some of that is context‐dependent. Working with a better coach or being in a better training environment can raise your level at any age...
  16. Daily Table Tennis Chit Chat

    Ayhika can still be improving, it is the young well trained players that hit their peak years ago. Those who get exposed to new patterns later may still find new highs and have random unbeatable days. Do you do physical therapy and exercises for your strength and joints in general?
  17. New all-wood blade recommendations wanted

    Bernadette Szocs Signature 1 or Tibhar Samsonov Force Pro Black edition - two classic 7 ply blades.
  18. ITTF World Cup to Come Back in 2024

    The World Cup gives China a chance to firm its rankings for its Olympic selections. Thankfully, this sounds like a very different event from the old one, though I kinda liked the old one because it gave the minnows a chance to mix with the whales and sharks.
  19. ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals Busan 2024

    Nah. I think WCQ will actually accelerate the desires, and it might actually be used against him in 2028 lol so Felix can win. Ma Long just became too big and clean to be stained.
  20. JTTA: Selection System to be Revamped for Paris 2024

    They were zero before this. Well, unless somehow all the other team members suffer incredible mishaps. They would likely send CXT before her at this rate.
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