The forehand chop actually gets more racket head speed than the backchop. There is little point in comparing a chop performed consistently with inverted rubber with a chop performed with long pips.
I do. Pistej is great but what has he really won? JWJ is a CNT tier 2 threat and Korean #1/2. It is not an impossible result and Pistej is in great form as his victory over Fang Bo shows, but this is an upset.
He does the camps mostly for the TTEDGE members. He is going to be a national junior team coach so not sure what it will mean for his long term availability.
So I have been in Florida for this week mostly at a TTEDGE camp with Brett Clarke and co. For the first time I have come to appreciate the importance of multiball and I will start doing more of it. If you focus on technique rather than putting the shot on the table, it is a good way of...