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Lin Gaoyuan, though i really hope for Fang Bo or Liang Jingkun. Ling Dingshuo or Wang Chuqin. No affirmative action for penholder please. For women, Chen Xingtong and Wu Manyu/Chen Meng.

A world class athlete actually playing table tennis over other sports. Interesting that his parents wanted to invest in this.

1. The top CNT players don't reguarly train vs each other but they compete vs each other. 2. National associations are already somewhat cooperating. 3. You can get Provincial level or retired CNT training partners to work with which is what many of the top Euro players and clubs already do as...

Read raineverever's posts. You still seem to miss the point.

You discussed the forehand flick but do you agree he needs more serve variations?

I agree that Boll and Dima would be better but he isn't on the German national team. His current Bundesliga team has Gauzy. Dyjas and Muromatsu. He is already competing against Boll, Karlsson, Fegerl, Filus etc. On a regular basis. I think the whole collaboration idea sounds great on paper but...

Calderano is already in a great situation. It's just not as good as playing Ma Long so often that you get to figure out where you are and works and doesn't work against you vs. someone who can implement it at the highest level. The only thing I could see for someone like him is playing T2APAC...

I don't see this at all. In fact, may top clubs in Europe bring in Chinese players to give their players exposure and to help their rankings. If China didn't do such a good job of keeping its prime talent and the ITTF didn't have regulations that prevented people from playing the main ITTF...

The Indians and many other former British colonies are worse than Ian Marshall in their use of elaborate English words. Americans are noted for their simplicity given the success of Hemingway and the advice of William Strunk and EB White in the often advocated "Elements of Style", which made...

But that is the point - what do you expect to happen beyond players in the same club getting together or training camps at the old Schlager Academy? The real problem is not the lack of the players getting together, it is that there aren't 20 Hugo Calderanos out there. Most of the top...

What makes you think they don't or that if they do it will make a huge difference? Just looking at the constitution of clubs in Europe tells a different story.

He doesn't have Ma Long or Xu Xin to push him in training.

I think the first two games started with FZD letting Hugo play table tennis. The difference between both players is that FZD knows what it is like to play Ma Long on a regular basis and when the matches got tight, he basically played Calderano like Ma Long used to play FZD. With Calderano, the...

Listen, raineverever annoys me with her Ma Long fandom and ZJK derision as much as anyone else, but come on, Ma Long's struggles need to be put in perspective - he is the greatest player of all time (to me), and I felt this way in 2012 before he had won anything and I am happy he wasn't forever...

Congrats, David. Well done.

And this is also Fan's weakness as well. He just chiquitas those ball too or short pushes them when it feels awkward. He has worked a lot on his forehand flick but rarely ever uses it.

Yeah, that's my point. Calderano is just like FZD 3 years ago in some ways. I am sure many coaches prefer that problem to the alternatives.

It takes one to know one.

You need to live in a country where they try to speak the Queen's English.

A trip down memory lane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5MhG8Ep7O4