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It is very important to be able to tell when your serve is not good enough. That lets you prepare in advance for the appropriate response. Usually, it is easy to be ready for the low level responses but you always need to have an idea of how well your serve is truly limiting the opponent's...

Duplicates is not the same thing as doubles. It is unlikely that Boll and Dima can be on the same draw since they are seeded 6 and 8 I believe.

Many of you have probably seen this video or a similar video before about serve placement - I actually first learned this from Brian Pace and it applies to all shots, but most easily to serve and serve return. When you understand how ball placement limits the opponent's options, you develop a...

This is funny, I bought this one on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-7100-Petr-Korbel-FL-Blade/dp/B000AS886A It was actually $50 with free shipping and took a month to arrive and weighed 98g. I thought the price maybe had an impact on the quality and ordered from our local...

You can't contain people with serves if you play them all the time, eventually they figure out what you do, so you have to keep innovating or else you will lose your serve edge. To me, if you can limit the return of the opponent and get somethimg predictably attackable because of the quality of...

Ideally, you do them unconsciously with your training. Or most ideally, you select a strategy before the point starts as a general guide, but just subconsciously adapt to whatever the opponent throws at you. It's not as easy as it sounds, and its why the people who start young and put in lots...

Aiming at the elbow or hip where the paddle is held is a common spot to aim the ball, but aiming for the other hip is weirdly problematic and more confounding than many players realize. And again, this is a tactic that works against almost anyone. I remember one day I was playing the best...

Table tennis funding is largely governmental. Tennis funding is largely corporate. Makes a big difference in the influence of national associations on the sport.

This is sometimes true, but is often enough wrong. You only want to stay away from someone's weapon when you don't know how to defuse it. Sometimes, defusing someone's weapon is about going to it, so that they can give you a ball you send to their weakness with pace or spin that kills then...

You would likely have to use a match that you play to ask for that. The problem is that you are asking for insights using players who play nothing like you. Maybe the fact that the guy has pips on his backhand is one thing but not much. So how would I play them? I would serve them heavy...

His whole game looks as if he has shoulder damage, not just the serve. Pretty good player.

Baal, he kinda exists already though not the same obviously. Nominee 1:

I don't think it is so hidden though. They probably thought through it and wanted to give people an incentive to field national teams and so that top countries would not use it to increase their medal count with collusion/bribery without cost (imagine if China paired with Japan or Germany or...

Quadri Aruna used to qualify easily. It is now mostly acceptable but still has strategic issues.

They want to give you an incentive to have national team pairings. It lets you have more players participating.

The man cannot retire, he loves his job too much...

Sometimes, I watch some of my old videos and I like to think the equipment made me play better (Hexer and MX-s, where are you?). Then I use the equipment and realize that even videos deceive me and mess with my memory lololol...

Innerforce with slight modifications unless you know what the redesign does for you or Tiago is your favorite player why spend the extra money?

The Freitas ALC is the new Maze, so to speak. You can try the innerforces as well. Blade choice is not rocket science, it's more like dating and marrying - some get lucky with love at first sight, some hop around and then commit, while others continue to date until they die, or some marry for...

Any answer other than Fan Zhendong at the current moment is purely a joke (Jike) right? There might be a few Liang Jingkuns and Karakasevic's and Jeoung Youngsiks out there, but there is only one FZD. What I find really impressive is the overall global improvement in the level of backhand...