Everything is fair for sure. Sora's style is inherently volatile because it is very touch/feeling based, I don't think the score changes are about attitude as much as they are about the limitations of his style, limitations that may evolve with age as well.
WCT is one of the most underrated players in the world. Ma Jinbao is really good, but Wong Chun Ting can literally beat any player in the world when his game is on.
John S is an expert on equipment and what pros use, and when you ask him which pros he gets this information from and which pros he knows personally, he never answers.
To support your point, there are lots of matches in TT where a player gets injured and can no longer move and then his blocking game throws of his opponent more than the previous rally game. We have the famous Ding Ning incident vs LSW, we have Samsonov vs Dima at the Olympics, and I remember...
It's ignorance of the history of the sport that leads someone to think that what Wang Chuqin and Ma Long are doing is inherently more athletic than high level hardbat. Modern TT taxes some things more than hardbat does, but hard bat usually leads to far longer and taxing rallies and that by...
In reality, pickleball is actually more athletic than table tennis, other than with respect to certain aspects of speed. The spin dimension that makes table tennis interesting is what really differentiates it from pickleball and that is hardly athletic in nature.
My opinion for what its worth is that if someone wants an athletic endeavor, they should go play tennis. Or even hardbat. If you are playing modern table tennis, you are not playing it for athleticism per se, you are playing it because you enjoy the spin dimension. And pips introduce a...
You can watch the match and read his interviews, he discusses the need to lose weight as he realizes that he doesn't need as much bulk to play good table tennis and watching Lin reinforced that.
This is a huge problem with the modern internet, and I hope the creators of that video and channel take this to heart. There were many ways of framing the issue in my opinion and it could have done better if that issue was discussed apart from the Westchester highlights. But chasing views and...
There was one point I saw him cho, it was so quiet you had to see his lips to know he was choing lol.... that was the first time I had ever noticed it clearly though.
How does Lin Yun Ju with a such a strong backhand make it even stronger? It is a reminder to double down in your strengths and stop over thinking your weaknesses.