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People do adjust their games to mimic opponents, especially in *practice*. It depends on a variety of things, but the main one is the shot sequence that the opponent prefers. One thing I mentioned, and I could be seeing things, but no one has taken me up to discuss it, is that He Zhuojia seems...

IT's called "The Modern Denial of Human Nature".

The first thing is that it is not a myth: http://www.masatenisi.org/english/secrets.htm The second thing is that it is no different from having someone play a certain style so that you can practice against it, which you have pointed out. What I don't get is that I would never pretend you are...

No one is being played and exploited. We are all intelligent teens/adults who know how to think. We come here to have fun. Soccer teams have fans. Players have fans. National teams have fans. Corporations have fans. No one is naively embracing anything just because they do not agree with you.

It's really funny how far some people will go to pretend that the world is not a certain way.

This is a funny post. If I call Hao Shuai "the Timo Boll clone", does that mean Hao Shuai was raised and bred and gave up his whole life to play like Timo Boll in order to support the main team? Since you described what the "cloning" process is like, where a player simply mimics an opponent...

Here is my crazy theory - Mima Ito has given He Zhuoja more opportunity as she is probably the Mima Ito clone. And this has lead to her changing aspects of her game to be more like Ito. And this is making her a better player even if more conventional. Because he balls look like she is using a...

Okay. But that doesn't make Sali anything close to racist. Human beings form all kinds of groups to co operate and compete. One of these groups call themselves the CNT. They try to beat foreigners. They publicly admit to all this. They are also incredibly successful and are the Goliath...

Unfortunately, Harimoto was not as enthused.

Is it me or is He Zhuoja using a faster and spinnier pip setup?

Kaizoku, No. My "theory" relies on LGY's domination of XX since the Marvelous 12. LGY and even LJK have outperformed XX internally in Superleague and trials. Even watch LGY's interview after the match. He isn't politically correct about his chances. He says he should have the upper hand...

Maybe. I am used to it in international competition and in many team sports. But maybe I am just the one who isn't sensitive and liberal enough to see the slippery slope. I think this is clearly a Goliath issue and has nothing to do with racism. If Germany won all thr time, the sentiments...

Come on, nothing wrong with rooting against Goliath.

Anyone who watches the second game and the third game and thinks XX was not trying is really a true XX fan.

LGY has been beating Xu Xin for a while now and should really have beaten him in WTTC 2017. However well you think Xu Xin played, LGY knows how to defuse XX.

Trying to see whether I can come out of retirement or not. Let's see... but I might realistically be 6 months away if even possible. Patience... But I have decided that for my style Hinoki is the only way to go.

Poor Ito, she is delusional. She must listen to Tony Table Tennis who has pointed out that she is only as good as Cheng I Ching, who Ito lost to and who Ding Ning cleaned the floor with. This despite having beaten Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen twice and being 8 years younger than Cheng.

I completely disagree. In fact the second and third games were masterful displays in fighting when you are trying to beat someone you agree you are supposed to lose to. He managed to make LGY start missing and lose confidence. He just couldn't close our the 3rd game. If he had the match...

He is a better player now no doubt. And this is Xu Xin not one of the others. Xu Xin has a structurally unsound game. The problem is that you have to play him often enough to have a chance of exposing it. But I am 95% sure that if Timo was on CNT and younger, he would be beating Xu Xin too.

LGY was a late bloomer and lost 3 straight WJTTC finals. When you have Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Fan Zhendong, that kind of player seems like a poor stepchild. LGL always admired LGY's work ethic and LGY had his breakthrough before LGL left at the marvelous 12 event. So given your...