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Yes, this is exactly what I mean. People should not be confusing themselves with ITTF pros who play one or two or three matches a day. Even then, what FZD or most pros do when they play against lower rated players is try to out play them with their touch skills and consistency. It is when...

Dan delayed the review until Hugo beat Lin, Tomokazu, and Boll... perfect timing....

It all depends on the level of the opponent. I used to play with more close to the table blocking vs most opponents to start off. It was when that didn't work I tried to up the ante. I guess you do it in reverse, BRS. But for me, I save my energy for later. I push and block, then I loop at...

Because while I respect anyone who is willing to post a picture of himself with a table tennis star on a public forum, you say a lot of stuff just to get attention, stuff that is often easy to figure out is out of line with the reality of the table tennis world and isn't that complicated. While...

That's one way of thinking about it but do lesser sports just as easily draw the highest levels of athletic talent? Remember that one of the reasons why Richard Williams wanted his daughters to play tennis initially was that he felt that they needed true athletes in the sport given the money...

Just noticed that ESPN was trying to rank the most dominant athletes across different sports in the ESPN.com era (mostly last 20 years). Number 1 was Tiger Woods but what I found interesting was the argument they used to exclude some sports and I suspect that table tennis would have been...

You are really close to being on my ignore list. Just saying...

As long as Ma Long and Xu Xin don't withdraw, all will be well.

ITTF tournaments have different schedule formats depending on a variety of things. This is one of the challenger formats that is used, in the Platinum formats, all the finals are on Sunday and there are usually no semi-finals on the same day.

What happened to the likes of Xu Chenhao and Yu Ziyang this time?

If you don't get coaching just get any rubber you like. It really doesn't make a huge difference. We sometimes over think these things.

Keep the rubbers, find a good coach to show you the principles of hitting the ball and spend the money for the new rubber on the coach. It goes much further.

Decided to get out of the sport (coaching and playing for at least a month and then reassess). Work is getting busier and health is not as good so I need to find a new balance.

Not sure Mark V is that much faster than Sriver. Other than that, I agree with the overall thrust and sentiments conveyed.

You guys don't impact the ball properly and blame the rubber.

If you want a spinnier rubber like MX-S that has high throw, try Omega V Asia. It is slower than Vega Pro but a much better rubber IMO.

In any writing business with extremely strong editorial standards and oversight, these kinds of errors are common.

Julia is the name of two players who both upset higher seeds.

Of course it is. The top division is much stronger and has no continental quotas. IT's a true World Championship.

The thread isn't over people. How did we turn a healthy and good thread about CNT WTTTC qualifications into something else? Wait until the team is announced and then you can do whatever you want with the thread.