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Seo Hyo Won at 10 and Sato Hitomi at 15 :rolleyes:

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Hi langel, I'm not sure how to make my footwork less jumpy, it's kinda become a habit for me. One thing I try to do is to make sure that I'm not jumping on the same spot, but moving side to side instead. You make a very good point about the ball not being in the proper position as the body...

Hi Takkyu wa inochi, Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it. I never noticed the thing about feet positioning, it's probably limiting the amount of power I can place on my shots. I'm in college now and getting a coach is pretty low on the priority list at the moment. But maybe spending...

Critique my technique Some footage from a tournament that I played in recently. I've played with pips on the forehand my whole life but I recently flipped my racket around to have inverted on the forehand instead. There are still many instances where I'm clearly using SP forehand and inverted...

a little surprising that they still refer to Ishikawa as Japan's top player. Maybe in terms of ranking but she doesnt have much else going for her.

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I've wondered about this too. If you're a player who has played since childhood, what happens when your knees aren't supple enough for you to run all around the court? Slapping a sheet of longpips onto the backhand to make up for the lack of mobility seems fun.

Is ratings central still being updated? It used to be an accurate measure of players strength. Now it lists Fang Bo at no.1 and Ni Xia Lian at no.2, and the most recent tournament updated was back in 2017

Service and third ball isn't a singular technique. It's an umbrella term that covers a broad range of attack patterns. I'm sure the one that Sun Wen employed was specifically designed to target Harimoto. Nothing basic at all. Like Liu Guoliang said, finish the point before the rally, and...

I never understood how Han Ying became a chopper given her personality. Or maybe she's just expressing what every chopper feels.

Polcanova, Szocs destroyed by old guards while Solja barely survives. Europe's "future"

Where can we see the full draw?

Definitely. You raised two points that crossed my mind but didn't manage to address. Hayata hasn't beaten anyone in CNT's core besides Liu Shiwen but everyone can see that she's more competitive than Ishikawa or even Hirano. But that's the limitations of data for you. Going into games ratio...

That is indeed impressive, but my point (c) in that you haven't proven yourself against a CNT player until you beat them more than once still stands. ITO is undeniably impressive but her feats of winning several main CNT players in an Open have been accomplished before (Jiang Huajun, Fukuhara...

since we are on the topic of win rates and what makes someone a true threat to chinese dominance I figured I would compile a (nonexhaustive) list of the wins of women who have been labelled 'threats' against the chinese. Some of my choices were questionable, especially after calculations had...

Bernadette did better on tour than Ishikawa? I don't recall seeing her on tour at all lately.

JNT owned themselves with their lame selection process. GG

LOL. But now that Ishikawa and Kato are going, Ito's first round exit in the Japan Open lost her what could have been a big lead in the points race. It's still to early to say anything yet. The singles spots are still very much up for grabs.

Actually another interesting team to analyse would be the German women's team. They seem to have no front runner at the moment. The team that won silver in Rio don't seem to be very active on tour, Solja possibly due to college, while Shan Xiaona and Han Ying possibly cannot play too often due...