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If you want a looping rubber, sure but if you want to punch and block, not the best fit. If you don't topspin consistently and powerfully, it is hard to get the ball moving with D09c.

Definitely D80 or D64. D09C is likely a step in the wrong direction.

Try to get something that shows the lower body. You are overusing the upper arm on some shots but the stroke looks good.

Hinoki has a feeling that for some people discourages giving good impact to the ball. But your post is very valuable as I think people sometimes miss the essence of providing a high quality ball is to look for technique/timing that produces it, not necessarily to mimicking everything a pro does...

I think you should use whatever you want. It won't make your game that much better or worse - the main thing is that you enjoy playing with it and the rest becomes a matter of training hours. IMHO, the key to fast equipment is to play for the rally and the key with slower equipment is to...

Kihara and Harimoto should have something to say about that no?

Sanity is greatly underrated in these days of Covid19.

Yeah I once told people that I felt he hits a higher quality ball than Lin Gaoyuan. You look at his build and you would never believe it but you can see the trouble his opponents have with his spin level. I also found the video excerpt of his weight training interesting. It looked like Fido...

Is this good enough to help us get our lives back to normal? https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/23/health/covid-19-convalescent-plasma-eua-white-house/index.html

To be a bit imaginative, Lord Mizutani has a chance as well. It is a tiny chance but he has a victory over Xu Xin and can play at the relevant level.

Thanks for the detailed analysis. I understood the strategy when I saw the full pairings. The problem is that you need to get your best player in singles in early (Liang) and I guess his being the only righty in the team made him hard to fit into the dual match slot. But delaying him until...

Maybe only Wang wanted to play Ma Long. I don't blame the others for being so scared lol. Ma Long was fire today!

Wang Chuqin pushed a lot of half-long serves into the forehand - he must have believed the hype of Ma Long's serve. Yet the two times he looped the serves in the game I remember, he won the point. I suspect his inability to read serve length is only exploitable by CNT.

Finally one game lives up to the hype!

Amongst immortals, sure...

Anyone have the match order? MAybe they wanted WCQ vs ML in match 3 and FZD vs LJK in match 4...

Looks like a typical CNT propaganda move to boost the ego of the main team... on a more serious note, this will defy explanation if LGY loses to FZD as well...

Wow, they put Wang Chuqin in the doubles match! Talk about an immediate curve ball!

I don't see XX playing before ML if the goal is to win as much as possible. I also don't see LGY playing before LJK - you want your best players to play early unless the order prevents it. But who knows.... but the 3rd match for me is ML vs LJK... 4th match FZD vs LGY... 5th match is XX vs...

This Japanese Men's team is 10 times as strong as the real thing. I am really excited about the possibilities of Ma Long vs Liang Jingkun and Fan Zhendong vs Wang Chuqin. Though if Fan plays doubles, it could be Ma vs Wang and Fan vs Liang.