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IT is actually the better way to go if they can make it work, the problem is trusting the people who are doing this. They really do need to commercialize the sport, it is hard for us to complain when they make attempts.

Hmm.... how do you know it isn't modified flying insect equipment? :unsure:

I'm the wrong person to ask, when I was your rating, I was largely a blocker, admittedly with the 40mm ball. Footwork was a bit of a luxury. Right now I am an old man who can't play an event without feeling like he needs new knees. The kids just block me to the left and to the right and I am...

Happy Lily could take it all, and Cho was just building his ego for future events. Ranfeur is a bit older already (late 20s), and with the Swedish logjam on the top team, it is unlikely he will ever get major burn. But crazier things have happened. I believe the current men's team is Truls...

Bajor sometimes plays like the best women's player in Europe, and then sometimes plays like a very good player - I think as you pointed out, it is probably something about the backhand rally and whether you can use tactics to constrain her. It was probably a case of strength against strength...

This has to be one of the smartest statements period in TT when it comes to playing pips players, I find too many players who want to hit the ball hard against a pips player before taking their time to figure out what is on it, and how to get the ball they can put away.

Miwa never won the WJTTC nor the Japanese women's single title at the age of 15. She still has zero wins against core CNT female players. If in 5 years time, she still has no medals at WTTC or Olympics singles, are you going to say similar things about her to the things you are saying about...

A couple of things: I never ascribed those ideas to you (where did I say "TBH said/wrote"), though I have already pointed out, your use of some dubious analogies could easily have justified them. I discussed those ideas in an isolated post that did not quote or respond to you and you can...

Please quote where I misrepresented your opinion as a start. You say a lot of irresponsible stuff and when called out on it, you now seem to want to accuse people of putting words in your mouth without responsibly quoting when I supposedly did so. You have written a lot of things that implied...

The way you can tell he is full of BS is that he supposedly likes Miwa, who has not beaten anyone or done anything compared to what her brother did at the same age, just because she seems to be on a good path and doesn't have the supposedly same level of hype probably because she hasn't done...

One of the benefits of the USATT rating system is that it gives you good context on your opponent's playing level. My first rating coming out of a tournament in 2011 was 563. I lost to everyone I played other than the club owner's wife, who I beat twice. 8 months later, after taking lessons...

I know you are trying to get some laughs but given that it isn't clear you know how to use your blade either, not sure whether to laugh...

Of course your view not changing doesn't make it any less worthy of derision. It is definitely your right to maintain your opinion no matter how wrong I think it js but that has nothing to do with my right to tell you that your opinion is based on naive views of how career trajectories work...

The freedom to believe obnoxious things does not make them any less obnoxious. And the attitude of requiring growth measured by short term results even when the right path can hurt the short term results of the player is precisely the tradeoff you refuse to discuss and is why fans like you who...

Huang Yi-hua, the lady who beat Ni, is the favorite for me. Lily wouldn't stand a chance against Ni but that is of course a pips matchup, she might do well against Huang, but Huang also beat Pesotska, who tends to compete well with Lily. Lily is a favorite for me in her semi even as Vivarelli...

I agree, but I would warn you that Ranfeur is a trickier character than you might realize.

On the women's side, anyone who can beat Ni Xia Lian has to be ringer of sorts, so far this has been borne out.

He was probably injured, he used a fairly long injury timeout and it didn't help. Mutti is also a talent of sorts, just has never paid the promise of some junior highlights, but in the end it is what is. Cho is really hard to beat, it will be interesting to see whether Allegro has anything...

As are you. Even with his initial results, the structural and technical weaknesses in Harimoto's game were obvious and they were not going to be easy to address, and with people like you who focus on results, there is no way they would have been addressed. You don't realize how much a part of...

Some of us have experience in business and we know when someone is doing predictions based on a linear or hockey stick process which is exactly how someone who is experienced with the limitations of linear thinking and hockey stick predictions should not do it. That's all I will say for now...