Sounds like mental toughness is what you lacked. Your experience will gradually build alongside with your confidence, but having a strong mind or not that has to do with your personality. May I suggest you to spend some time to watch a full length PGA tour, or Boating & Fishing shows.
oh that's a toughie. You are looking at a nation which devote lots and lots of resources to make ping pong the National Sport
I believe the right question should be, which nation is most likely to nurture the next world class player ? by sheer player volumes, right environment and all that...
That's just sad, can you imagine being him, every place you go your name is censored. "invalid input, please remove profanity letters from your [First Name], then press [OK] to continue register
come on f*** that **** already
one thing about being chinese is you got to take in all the narrator's comments in the game and let me tell you, out of that whole 7:40 minutes all they have done is criticizing, not just the regular journalism reports, they bad mouth Niwa and judge his ways from first game, demonizing and call...
maybe you could post a video of your recent game in the club, that would say a lot more than just plain description
oh and, competition could get the best and worst out of a person, mind that my internet friend, just try to keep your mind open.
Waldner +1
He had that unique quality and the grace in table tennis. Some shots he made is in art form. IMO Z.Jike came close with few games like that, with some distinct quality unlike other chinese players whom just brutally survived among other thousand competitions. THAT speaks for...
Never heard of this indian shop, but their Desto F3 BS costs only 1600 Rupees / ~31 USD where USA sites are selling those for $45, but their Tenergy series cost more than norm