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Of course Niwa was lucky. But Mizutani never played a schedule that showed desperation.

Physical strength. Chen Meng is the strongest of the women players, Wang Manyu #2. That can change with age but Wang Manyu is used to overpowering players. It just doesn't work against Chen. Chen is a modest disappointment relative to physical talent level but she still has 4 years to fix...

Sour grapes. Koki Niwa had to beat the same Hugo Calderano that Muzutani couldn't beat as part of his effort.

I like a coach like that. He is just trying to relieve his players of useless pressure. That said he must not have heard that doubting your powers puts your powers in doubt.

Not quite. You can reorient your body you make contact in a way that makes the toss in front of your body or besides your body but has you rotating into the ball. It is just harder to do for a pendulum serve unless you are doing something like Samsonov and people don't want to do it. Most...

Body rotation or hiding the serve? Body rotation is a huge part of getting spin on anything. One of the reasons the tomahawk and punch serves are so heavy is that they usually involve significant body rotation.

I have always felt you went too far embedding. Just posting the links is sufficient.

Maybe but not always. And the rule that enables those offenders is the one being violated. The Samsonov pendulum shows you can change your orientation if you really want to. But if people do not want to serve beside or in front of their bodies, you can't eliminate hidden serves.

She lost to Jeremy Hazin of Canada recently. The level.of the player matters and men are stronger then women. Women can compete sate in some cases with close to the table blocking and hitting but the strength and speed disparity can show up.

They have the same coach and try to do the same things. Wang Manyu just does them with more power.

There was a serve Ma Long did in the 6th game with a short Toss with the ball in full view throughout the serve. My point is that the players are aware of this issue. No one just wants to change. We just accept it as a matter of course.

I didn't count the crowd as a matchup. The disparity in crowd support was ridiculous.

The problem is that everyone plays injured. I mean, ZJK when he tried to make his comeback was injured and he still got to a World Tour finals in Japan (and lost deuce in the 7th to Harimoto). Boll is almost always injured - it is a running joke amongst some people that what would Boll be if...

Calling this one for Liang. Ma doesn't seem to have any consistent advantages in the matchups.

This plastic ball makes the step around forehand look stupid when you don't recover.

You are tautologically correct but your argument lacks nuance. I think you underestimate the relationships that are formed when people hang around together for many years. Of course the CNT thinks ML will rise to the occasion, but that is what "owing him" means - he has never disappointed at...

So the rules changed in 2016, where they were allowed to remove both Fan and Xu Xin to allow Zhang Jike? I think ultimately, China sent the Champs that they wanted to send. They subbed Guo Yan with Ding Ning back then as well.

You don't have that flexibility in the Olympics today if ever.

Okay. Since you still seem to misunderstand (or block your ears a d eyes to) the training investment in world tours vs WTTC, the latter they have special camps and training periods to avoid the very thing XX did by losing to Gauzy, I give up. No point in discussing this forever if these are...

Because of two players called Ma Long and Fan Zhendong?