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It would make a plot for a good movie if China and Japan exchanged junior WTTC champions and we could see what each country put the players through and where they ended up after the exchange program. Kihara was beating Kuai Man or at least competitive when they were juniors. Then they go...

Anyone who says Felix has a weak forehand has the luxury of high standards and should not be taken too seriously. And yes, Xu Xin is included. That Felix has a really strong backhand and sets up to win many points with it is not a comment on his forehand at all, taking forehands early and off...

Not necessarily. If you decide how you want to win points, it becomes clearer that some blades are better suited than others and you can use rubber changes or just accept the blade and keep with it for two or more years. It also helps to be using something a player you respect uses so you can...

Maybe with Timo's retirement, Groth can stop playing with impostor syndrome... definitely.not a quality problem...

It's a common call amongst players, even Ma Long called ir on Pitchford erroneously once. It is something ITTF can either address with video review or let go. There is no real sportsmanship component to it, it is something that the IztTF gas to rule on similar to the double hitting rule, I...

Kuai Man has the impression of overtrained precision and control whenever I watch her. It is sometimes ridiculously impressive how the shots are combined to make the opponent miss.

Let's stop being silly here. You don't call youth a failure until it is way too late. That's my point. By this standard, Hayata was already a failure in 2020. Is he disappointing, sure. The bottom line is that he has another 8 years to get it right. This is hopefully my last post on...

I am talking about Sora Matsushima's development. You are obviously talking about something else.

Uda is 6 years older than Sora. Shinozuka is 4 years older. Let's stop retiring them in diapers please.

He beat Xiang Peng. You are in way too much of a rush.

Shinopi beat Karlsson 3-0 here.... maybe the Japanese coaches just did the lineup wrong?

Quadri vs Harimoto... time for debates about Asian vs African forehand and maybe the same for backhand lol...

No he doesn't. He thinks professional table tennis players like Timo Boll had a life when they were kids. He doesn't realize that whether they were on tour or not, many of them left home to train somewhere away from home in a modified school. No world class level otherwise.

As @Robin0910 said, it is the lack of coaching and it tends to work to the disadvantage of the player who relies most on coaching in the result unless the level disparity is just huge.

We have seen this story of age without coaching working against younger players in many national teams in the past. This is no different. Japanese Nationals will be a better measure.

Chen Yo beat the Hayata clone worse than she beat Hayata... says something...

It's quite clear to me that the serve always goes behind his head, whether it is always visible I leave for you to determine. Kanak doesn't habitually push long, so you have to infer from that that there was something subtly difficult going on.

Kanak has a really short backhand countertopspin, the ball is more loaded than it appears to be. edit: There was probably also from very subtle ball hiding from Yoshimura but that is another story...

Not quite true, but we are just running around in circles at this point.

Bots have massive limitations, but if it is the best you can do, it is what it is. Better than nothing in the worst case, but often still worse than a reasonable amateur feeding multiball,