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Yeah. I noticed low-level (# 27) Chen Szu Yu just beat Zhang Rui. Is she now top 10? Or are you still of the opinion that Adriana's win over CSY at the WTTC was jet lag and means next to nothing?

It is a technically correct forehand though, mostly powered by the legs, with good leverage and forearm snap and largely topspin focused, maybe with a bit more back muscle action to take advantage of Quadri's strengths. I say that not because I really want to argue with you, but because I want...

We have discussed these issues extensively in the past - you can search for the threads if you want to learn why these are not the whole story. Chess to introduce excitement and randomness has largely resorted to shorter and shorter time limits (sound familiar to anyone?) Measuring player...

Actually, with her continental points, not really for Adriana. And with her quality of play, all she has to be is roughly a top 20 player by strength, which she obviously would be if she played in Europe. While Kihara is young and will improve, I think Adriana played very well against her. My...

Okay. 1 year later, we can discuss,

Sure, ITTF rankings are not perfect measures of strength, but we had that debate years ago about the value of encouraging participation with the current system and some of the merits of strength based ELO rankings (old system) vs points based tournament rankings (new system). Even with all the...

This is another weird post. If we wanted to do rankings and China let all its top players play on tour, would Mima Ito be top 10? Hugo has been #4 as a continental player benefitting from these extra point provisions and often falls short of his ranking though he has wins here and there...

You don't have to be impressed. Like I said, World Ranking is not based on one match, it is based on a weighted average of your best results. You are looking at what you want to focus on - you are skipping lots of wins and interesting matches played over the past year, from wins over the likes...

Why should we leave Chinese players apart? Because it shows the bias in your logic?We can disagree on Adriana but to me she is clearly qs strong and possibly stronger than any of the women in Europe and is only 21. She has time to learn from and fix some of these things. Cheng I Ching lost to...

https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022_13_SEN_WS.html That is her current ranking. Is her ranking falsified by losing a match, or is it an achievement that is true until she leaves the top 10?

How does Alexis Lebrun beat these top players so easily? Amazing ball control but the power is ridiculous.

I wrote a whole article on this topic of hitting with better players on myTT a while back but basically, to get to practice with the better players, you need to learn the skills they love to practice against at a level that lets them hit with you (what you get in return is their attention and a...

It is a hard question. 6 hours a week is a good amount of.time. A lot of magic will be tied to things you may or may not control. So I will give a broad answer. Ask your coach what his considered and honest goals for you are. You may not like the honest answer but only an honest coach who just...

This is 100% correct and is part of what I consider the fastest ways to improve. My first good coach (of late and blessed memory) always tried to blend both. So we did a lot of third ball drills - unfortunately, I was probably to stubborn to understand what he really wanted me to do (and to...

Table tennis is extremely difficult and if you played significantly higher level players than you, then you really never had a chance. The USATT system, for all its flaws, does have the benefit that ratings tend to put you in a competitive range when they are accurate. The one thing that I can...

My stream was fine for women's final and the stupid rapper. Started acting up with mens final.

Hi, Mivan the camera angle makes it hard to see your training strokes. Since your partner has decent strokes, I suspect your strokes aren't that bad and that you put in some good work. There is some tension in the strokes that you can improve, but in table tennis, there are no low hanging...

If you have a match tomorrow, don't think about technique - technique you work on when you have time or you don't care too much about your results - matches are played with unconscious processes so it is paradoxically damaging to try harder during a match since it is largely about what your...

Hi, Wrighty67. I think you put in a lot of effort and that it would help if your coach worked with you on improving your technique. You are engaging too much upper arm on the forehand. it is costing you some things. On the backhand, you have a decent shot, but there are things you could do to...

I believe it is a DHS ball of some sort.