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I think in their primes I would rank them: ML, ZJK, FZD and finally WCQ. WCQ is still young though and could keep improving and getting more steady.

When the ball was placed to your forehand with underspin you pushed down the line once and you looped down the line once and you won both of those points. Unfortunately when the ball came to your backhand, you hit the ball cross court where he was waiting for you. Go down the line more...

She can. She plays really well.

Fairies Wear Boots is a great Black Sabbath tune. Table tennis players do not wear boots when playing. You also look like you are wearing knee braces, so wearing boots while playing is doing even more damage to your knees as well. He served wide to your forehand and fast to your backhand...

One thing to take into consideration is that LGY had to play WCQ if he won. WCQ puts fans in the seats and I would not be surprised if LGY would be ordered to lose the match if they played. WCQ certainly is capable of beating LGY if they play for real and I am certainly capable of being wrong...

While I agree you should encourage all students to loop long serves, or even loop kill them, telling a 1900ish student to loop hard against half long serves is a horrifically bad idea. They probably cannot tell if the ball is half long or going to bounce a second time on the table. If you want...

WCQ's racket looks horrible. I would be screaming left and right if that happened to me. That is completely unacceptable.

Kenji missed a lot of serves. It makes me wonder if his racked was "inspected" by the referees taking the rubber off.

I have no idea but I am currently watching a match and things don't seem right with another player's racket as well. Very weird,

Part of it is a natural ability to see the ball early and track what is going on. More of it is from playing hours and hours. The sad reality of the situation is that the younger you start playing, the more massive advantage you will have in tracking the ball and figuring out quickly what is...

If you loop from both sides, then definitely being fit will help your game. I would say however in the vast majority of cases, the thing that is holding someone back the most is issues with their serve/serve return as well as their ability to instantly discern what is going on and formulating...

I am laughing at all the people posting that fitness has anything to do with getting to 2100. Being fit has absolutely nothing to do with the game until you are over 2450 or maybe higher. NOTHING. You need to read the ball and react quickly and correctly. I personally know several people who...

I used to train with someone who could not run a 15 minute mile but ended up breaking 2450. Fitness has nothing to do with getting to 2100. I would say the #1 and #2 skill is serve and serve return. It is debatable which is more important. I know quite a few 2100+ players with horrid...

In ancient times with the 38mm ball, all 3 star balls played similarly. In modern times, every 40+ ball plays so differently that I would only practice with the brand of ball used at a particular tournament I was preparing for. This also goes for the pros I know personally. Nittaku, Gewo...

Seriously follow one coach. You are lucky you don't have a traditional Chinese coach. A player who was around 50-75th in the world at the time saw me play and suggested I make a change in my game. I asked my current coach what they thought about what the player suggested and I was...

Without outing anyone, it is possible lol. I asked one former province level player what would happen if someone on their province team acted like that and they said the coach would just kick them off the team. I think my advice is just geared towards a worse player trying to find a way to...

Here in America, there are some very decent players who absolutely cannot feed multiball. They have no clue what they are doing and it is almost an absolute waste of time doing multiball with them. I also disagree with blasting the ball past a pro to impress them. Do the drill. Do what...

Two things you can do to greatly increase your odds: 1) Learn to feed multiball 2) Learn not to be a moron during practice. If your partner wants to do a drill, do it to whatever specifications they want and try not to upstage them or make it unnecessarily more difficult than what they want...

A lot of clubs in my city charge by the hour to play. You are essentially renting the table for the hour. So if that happened to me I would say "My friend and I arranged beforehand to practice. Maybe when we are done I will hit with you." If they became rude, I would say "Look, I paid for...

In general everything looks good. I think two small changes could help: 1) You are 1-2 steps too close to the table. 2) Sometimes your left hand is too far to the right and interferes with the smoothness of the stroke, Watch a video of a pro and their left hand won't be near their belly...