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In the videos I have looked at with backhand topspin dated 4/19, we can do a.bit better. The problem you have is that you are trying to put the ball on the table rather than swing a specific way. This usually results in you not making radical changes to your technique because your body will...

The thing about pips is that if your game is mature and has a good structure for adjusting to spin, pips are not that big an issue as long as you resist the urge to play too fast since the ball generally has less spin. The intuitive physics of the game is important and most people struggle...

My coach used to call Ma Longs technique a "dive" and Fan Zhendongs a " shove" but you are looking at something that is not the key to wherer their power comes from. Coach Meng at WRM TV had different videos for the techniques (kong vs kaitai or something like that). The point is not that the...

LSD is the favorite but so were Harimoto and WCQ. Hugo also does well vs heavy spin and hoping Monteiro can figure out something to get him through.

It will be a battle for who has the most powerful backhand in the world.

Now if only Monteiro had coached him at the Olympics lol... But this is the best palate cleanser all things considered... Hugo really needed this.

Best match point ever.

Ahem, ahem...

Come on Hugo - erase the Olympics, end the moral victories and get a real one!

If something costs $1M, WTT is too broke to implement it. It's really up to China, they are where these things have been used so far.

Players have resisted this so good luck.

Very poor. She can't keep the ball on the table just to rally, all she needs is kill...

OK. When the tech is ready and it can be applied at more tournaments without interrupting the flow of play, that will be fine. Right now it can't do what you are asking.

Of course it is easy for the ball to be visible while passing behind the head before contact. The issue is when it is not visible, who makes the call? In fact Ma Long was notorious for letting the ball disappear behind his head even if it was sometimes visible at contact. But when it was...

It's a feeling. They will move a little but nit the way you are moving them and they will move because the rest of the body especially the core is moving but not because the upper arm is moving. The upper arm is the slowest part of the body in table tennis. It should only add very little to...

Ball being visible throughout the toss is actually in practice very similar to being visible to both corners because it is hard to shield the ball through part of the toss without making it behind some part of your body and when a player starts putting it behind some part of their body, all they...

I have argued with many coaches too only to understand years later what they were trying to say. It doesn't always mean I was wrong or they were right (though usually I think i was wrong and they were right). One of my coaches told me to fix my elbow positioning on the forehand side and that...

I think they have probably corrected the early round umpires and explained to them that challenges should only occur on decisions they make. It's unfortunate because it leaves everything in the hands of the umpire on critical points. But let's see how TTR evolves.

And Miwa is what? Felix is what? Lin Yun Ju is what? Fan Zhendong was what? Had little to do with rising. Other trajectories were possible. The story isn't finished, but the real issue is the quality of the opposition and the pressure of Tokyo Olympics.

The opponent lost to Fan Zhendong in singles - no post healing there. The opponent also lost in Teams but those matches are not a comment on his personal growth timeline. The opponent is also 20/21. Hugo lost a match where he lost after having a 10-4 lead in game 1 and never used his timeout...