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A lot of this comes down to coaching. I would coach two winged third ball. I would also coach you serve either sidespin or no spin or topspin in most of your serves - while of course deceptively making it look like backspin. Attacking behind backspin is an advanced skill and not worth it...

So you need to learn the alternating pivot and cross drill. It is one of the best single exercises for footwork in TT. Moving to your right, do a cross step (or semi cross step) footwork. And from your finishing position, to your left, do a pivot footwork. then the cross. Then the pivot...

The quality and placement of the serve matters, there is a reason that most pendulum serves go into the backhand side, it is to limit the angle of the returner and make playing into the forehand riskier. That said, I'd you do not pivot, pendulum serve may not be appropriate. The key word is...

Good that the Tieba users agree with you.

Not as far as I can see. She stil ln has good odds against everyone not named Hayata and that could still flip even further in her favor with focused training.

Not doubting that Hirano was inspirational. My point is that Ito should be commended for her distinct achievements and that for the 2020/2021 Olympics, it was about Ito as enemy #1. Not Hirano. Hirano didn't win the bronze singles medal at the Olympics. Ito was usually unbeatable if the...

You can have the final word. You are free to rewrite history as you choose.

And Felix beats Quadri 3‐0. So the one man who could have prevented Jorgic from winning Europe Top 16 was foiled by his brother. Great.

You can't make this stuff up. At the European top 16, Alexis beats Felix and loses to Truls. At Goa, Alexis loses to Quadri and Felix beats Truls. If Felix beats Quadri, it will beg the question of whether it is fair for Alexis to be playing his brother in events.

India tends to do a great job when hosting things like this, they invest the right team and money in TT production. I think we underestimate the contribution of the local organizers sometimes and overestimate the contribution of the WTT.

The injured Samsonov who beat Dima and then lost to ZJK and Mizutani. I guess there was a chance but it did not materialize. Even JYS troubled ML and had ZJK on the ropes in teams as well but ZJK showed that when there are stakes, he will throw the kitchen sink at you so there is always a...

there is an old school Japanese player (former world champion) that did this and Timo does for some shots. Not a big deal at all.

I hear you. But this was exactly how people felt about men's singles in 2016 with ZJK playing. We know how that turned out. But I hear you.

Those of us who watched Ito know why she was credited. People can rewrite the narratives now if they want to, but some of us remember clearly that one of the reasons why Chen Meng became an Olympic champion against the grain of prior selection strategies was that she didnt lose to Ito. Hirano...

So some of us remember that Zhu Yuling was the golden child and that she and Li Sun started having arguments after Mima beat her in tour matches, including one where she embarrassed the ambassador from China who wanted to present the trophy to a Chinese lady but had to present it to a Japanese...

Obviously, but still the fact remains that Ishikawa and Fukuhara didnt win anything before Ito did. I agree that Hirano and Hayata did harder things in one sense but Ito's uniqueness is what it is.

Given that she essentially drove Zhu Yuling and Ding Ning into early retirement, and also was in many ways the best player outside China for the last decade, it is a bit too one-sided to interpret her career this way. Because while we might like to pretend that only beating China matters, even...

It might be region restricted. Which means some company has the rights but isnt exercising them meaningfully in the US.

Looks like this doesn't have a thread yet. Also, WTT seems to be limiting table one streaming. Can't watch it on YouTube. Looks like Hugo and Quadri amongst other players will be unwatchable live.

Too much pressure on young players can be destructive.