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Sure Tony, but how would you explain those young Japanese kids (and not only Japanese) being so successful nowadays? Before 40+ era, Zhang Jike needed those huge leg muscles to "take the power/spin from the ground". The swing had to be larger. Now all trainers suggest short, compact move for the...

Surely Kato Miyu and Sato Hitomi deserve those spots. I was not questioning their 'competencies' and I hope they go far in the draw. Of course I'm upset cause I "fell in love" with Hayata's performance (and of course Hayata herself ; ) in Portugal and she proved to be capable of winning against...

Precisely ... imho this would be a much healthier situation for everybody, probably also including Sato. If she was granted a wild card after the tournament we could argue about their results, but nobody would question the selection process. Assigning a wild card before the final tournament is...

Yeah Andrzej Grubba and his racket switching from one hand to the other ... I got into tt about 2008 and he died 2005 so never knew him in person, but many people tell me they have good memories from the times when he was playing. He used an all+ blade ... seems quite slow for many of us ... ; )

Not sure if the school classes are very common, maybe @kingslayer will have something more to say. The club route is the main one I think although coaches from our club do have lessons in the nearby schools. Sometimes in our club there are Cadet or Junior Nation wide tournaments. I can observe...

I want to be delicate, because Sato also has every right to be in the Budapest. I'm talking only about the selection process. The knock-out system instead of round robin ... was someone in a hurry? The selection process is over ... so I probably said too much anyway ... hope not too much.

Still I would say it was the Chinese manufacturers who probably had to adjust more. Besides ... tackiness is all about the spin, but if Harimoto can smash off the table those spinny loops Zhang Jike played during the Japan Open, in such a dismissive fashion ... this begs the question, why would...

True, like Sali said she is still very young. But can you guys tell me what would be wrong if the selection process was like: 2 spots - best WR 2 Top 12 round robin, The Marvelous 12 style 1 wild card. Besides as Takkyu_wa_inochi noted she suffered from injury last year so her ranking...

Fair question and interesting one. I'm not a CNT member or playing like XX ; ) but in my amateur career, I basically stopped wanting "the National one" or something similar, probably because of the reasons you've just described. Well ... ok to tell the truth, Harimoto's success was the first...

I'm with you. I meant not to take anything away from those girls occupying the spots, but ... simply put, it's a mistake on the JNT part ... after Portugal she was mentally on a peak performance. How come CNT gives only 1 (one) spot for "Marvelous 12" and the rest is decided. And Cheng Meng +...

Wow, now that is a bold statement right there Sali, hope Zeio wont find this one ... ;) Well yes, you are right here, maybe I was in a way, too results vs. the CNT ... oriented. But I have a suspicion, Liu Guoliang took a deep breath after Hayata's departure ... unfortunately ... of course, I...

Well ... our men division has become more professional and stronger in the past few years, I think. There are quite interesting players participating, Wong Chun Ting or Paul Drinkhaul (last year at least). https://www.superliga.com.pl/component/joomleague/finalranking?sezonid=14 On the women...

Sure, but I think the knock-out system suites well for the tournament purposes, not the selection process. Just this draw randomness is not necessary. I would not agree she can't finish an important match, having (what was it) 10:6 or 10:4 and than loosing seems like tripping rather ... also she...

I'm still upset and grieving about the Hayata's Hina tripping. She had several match points, how can one match decide about your overall condition and predisposition to perform. She was one of the 3 (in recent history) Japanese players to beat the top CNT member ... Can not understand the JNT...

So Hayata if off the Budapest completely?! If it's true, based on what we saw in Portugal last month, it seems like a pure nonsense for me. JNT really has to rethink their selection process. Jeez ... what on earth ...

Is Liu Shiwen using Viscaria (judging by handle)?

So the two best players qualify automatically to Budapest? ... and is it Chen Qi coaching Xu Xin? Long time no see ... ; )

Yeah, but we shouldn't give up on table tennis and mark it as a rather non-watchable sport ... We had a similar discussion earlier last year and I think it was @Brs who noted, that sports basically can be described as a spectator and participation ones, tt being the latter. Still, imho tt has...

MX-S works pretty well on my current Tibhar Curious, an off- I would say blade. It was quite fast on TB ALC though. Over the last period, driven by your paradigm, namely something like H3/Skyline and not as tacky and better for blocking I've found also Omega Asia V (mentioned here, haven't tried...

Yeah, thanks for this interesting topic in the multitude of the equipment related ones : ) I definitely agree with your observations, how the crowd gets easily involved and how easy it is to watch the game. Quite relaxing actually. The more I watch it the more I think, once it gets more...