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Sometimes, the book is still interesting if you know how the story ends....

Another guy Togami beat in TTBL, just for the record...

The effectiveness is always level relative - most strokes don't lose their effectiveness at any level, the issue is the quality of that stroke required to play at that level goes up. So things like speed, spin, placement. deception etc. all have to be better to get the opponent to make mistakes.

For Dima: why did he pick the team Fulda in the Bundesliga? OR how did he get to that team in general? For Lee: How does he keep himself going and how did he develop his big backhand (it is not as compact as most modern backhands)?

Would never have believed that Hugo would struggle with Lee Sang Su, sometimes it is a reminder of how beastly Lee can be...

The veterans know her game too well.

If you are truly 1000 and playing against similar level opponents, it is unlikely that the serves are truly short and dead, they tend to be easy to attack at the level with practice attacking long and half long serves. The problem that most inexperienced players have is judging the ball...

The point here is that declaring that one player has surpassed another on the basis of inconclusive factors is for you to make (my WR point was to consider all the evidence, I think Uda is on an upward trend and may pass Togami soon for sure). I don't think Uda can beat Lebrun and that is the...

Its funny how almost everyone is still making hinoki blades except Butterfly.

Maybe. But telling someone with a good backhand he needs a better backhand sometimes reads funny,

Well, we will give them time to let the rankings decide. I guess Uda is also higher ranked than Togami now since he is clearly better with his 2024 stats...

H3 without booster isn't great but it is playable.

Citing 2015 matches, your analysis never ceases to amaze. Alexis is probably the best player in Europe right now. Duda is good but I would not put him there. Togami>Uda is just as reasonable a conclusion. After all, Alexis destroyed Duda much worse than he destroyed Togami.

Yeah, we have all been on both sides of such losses. Close to winning with match points or good leads in game 3 but losing in 5. It sucks even more than an 0-3 loss sometimes. And he was containing the Uda forehand well up to then.

This to me reads a bit hilariously, Kao's strength is his tremendous backhand, it was the fact he couldn't win strength vs strength that made him start attacking the forehand.

Who is coming? Cho Seungmin? LGY? Please share...

And you really think the level of their opponents was comparable? Togami played a great match.

The SALC seems a bit soft, but Butterfly from their specs will tell you that the blade was designed to be thinner and more flexible than the Viscaria. Whether it actually turned out that way, who knows, they designed it to be faster and everyone agrees it is. Some people also say it is...

Well such things are subjective but I actually feel that because the Super Viscaria is not that much thicker, for me feels less stiff and the vibrations are in a surprisingly high range that it is surprisingly flexible for a blade that gets the ball moving as easily as it does. Speaking as an...

I agree with all this, it is basically a faster blade (slightly) that feels largely the same. That is the main appeal, if you want a slightly faster blade that feels like a Viscaria, this is the way to go but it has quite a few of the problems of a slightly faster blade but the fact that even...