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I think the best thing about TT is getting even with a player who beat you. The second best thing has to be doing something you didn't think you could with style therefore expanding your feeling for the sport.

Yeah, Hou Yingchao is a short pips chopper and that is a different animal from what most players are used to playing against. That said, he is beatable. But you can't let him get his forehand in consistently.

It's been an incredibly tough year. Trying to get back into TT and managing health and family issues.

Well Xu Xin didn't play. That is why all these chopper made the late rounds.

I have always felt he was marginalized for his playing style. He had one of the best forehands on the world.

Well I think there is no point sending the obvious Olympics hopefuls to the Nationals. Age or not, I think FZD deserves that.

The follow through is part of the stroke, it may not look like it but it is. And while it is partly for the reasons you mentioned, for a backspin ball, which is precisely the kind of ball the OP said he puts into the net, the extra lift from that motion helps you spin the ball over the net onto...

To be honest, the simplest way to get reasonable advice is to post a video of your attempts. General advice almost never addresses specific issues.

Koki Niwa style...

Thanks for the response. Now I know you are trolling and will ignore you as such. Cheers!

Did the OP ask about blocking? If you answer that question, we can go from there.

Did the OP ask about blocking? It is getting tiring debating with a faceless and rude person when I am a public personality who is not hiding anything. I never said I know a great Chinese coach, though I suspect there are some people who believe that only Chinese coaches understand...

https://youtu.be/OeLFTvTfhGY

Contact point, swing trajectory and quality of the backswing to create racket head speed. There is a good backhand flick video with Fan Zhendong that shows how you need to use the arm. You need to throw the body upward and backwards. If I find the video I will post it.

Almost everyone ideally hits after the peak of the bounce but the stuff almost everyone says will make you think otherwise.

My point is that your attitude makes it sound like I think I know everything and therefore you need to pretend to do so to compete and now I have pointed out explicitly how such an attitude is making you say things that you really don't need to. In any case, all is well. My playing level is...

The point is not that we know how the youngest tour event winner, WJTTC champ and WTTC quarter finalist will turn out. The point is that his achievements and results speak for themselves. And that he has qualified for his status and that he wins matches. Technique is not going to keep you off...

I actually took the USATT club umpire exam. I passed but some of the questions I got wrong were related to Paralympic play. It is hard to be intuitive about what one doesn't regularly experience.

My biggest mentor as a coach (and a good friend) told me that good coaches disagree all the time. Everyone knows the fundamentals but there are opinions as well. Pretending to know everything just ends up making you look like an idiot over time. My solution is simple - everyone knows my...

Makes sense. I have a lot to learn about the rules for disabled play.