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Yeah, you can make your own points, I have made mine. We don't have to agree.

I really don't have time to read links so I will not. If you have anything to say, say it here. Otherwise, athletes get paid to win matches, they can make any excuses they want. When you show me your salary for ranking Uda and Togami and the consequences for failing to do so appropriately, I...

She has an Olympics mixed doubles gold (first in history), Olympics singles bronze (first in Japanese women's history), Olympics silver and bronze team, and a world Championships singles bronze (as do Hirano and Hayata). She got that last bronze while having her mother coach her like she does...

You make it sound like there are other players playing the style that she does who have done better in the history of table tennis.

And Jang Woojin hasn't? I am not saying Sora has surpassed Harimoto, I am just pointing out that if the loss of Sora to Jang made that moot, the loss of Harimoto to Franziska makes the conversation worth having again only because of the original standard. Sora is up amd coming so it is harder...

While I just prefer to let them play, I guess with both exiting in the round of 16, the idea Matsushima has surpassed Harimoto is back in play again...

New XD contender has leveled up. Looks like the blade that doesnt work in Singles works in XD lol.

Franziska will have to do lol...

Ochsenhausen also lost Gauzy and doesn't have Fan Zhendong. Sorry lol.

The reverse is hard to control tor a returner especially if the server can use a toss angle that is less vertical. But I think he is just struggling with Franziska"s backhand.

The excuses (equipment, throwing matches) are already in play. Hayata just can't win.

He didn't look good in prior rounds but I didnt think it was CYY that would expose it. The whole blade thing is really interesting, isn't it obvious he needs his short pushing game and carbon doesn't help his cause in that regard? Congrats to the CNT, it seems they are establishing themselves...

You can't move and get into position then do your baxkswing and stroke. You need to get your feet set into the backswing while moving and end up prepared to do your stroke. The way you are doing it is wrong, the speed of the feed is making it workable but it will not work in a real match...

Not all the ways are equally good. That's the point of technique. When you need to hit a powerful backhand, everyone is doing something like what Dima does.

Team Dynamics are easy to project on teams you are not a part of. To take one example not from table tennis, where a player was accused of having an abusive coach, banned from using the coach for a period, started winning again when she was allowed to work with the coach again...

When I told you that this was the only proper way to play a backhand topspin with confidence, you were trying to talk about how my approach to table tennis was close minded and that Dima's technique was too big etc.. So I left you to your own devices. Fortunately for you, you are not as...

Do you remember how the drama between Harimoto and Hayata worked out? Are the mortal enemies now daggers drawn at each others throats losing in doubles under duress from others? You couldn't even manufacture sustainable drama out of something and now you want to manufacture it out of nothing.

Odo made the right choice and this issue is being discussed too deeply to be honest. I think the selection is good politics on the part of the JTTA, but ultimately irrelevant for LA 2028. The points for winning matches in WTTTC for a player's ranking are relatively small potatoes. There is no...

The whole drill in the first video is misconceived. It is arguably a good start for a beginner, but for match play, it is rubbish and dangerous for an advanced player. In matches, practical considerations dictate that the footwork movement and the backswing need to be combined or one will...

They say she was injured, whether she was and to what degree is anyone's guess because while she claims she wasn't, sometimes someone who has never played at the Olympics may downplay issues with her form that others can clearly see. Still watching to see how the next few years go, right now...