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I hear you, LYJ is also a serious player and he got handled convincingly. But Kallberg beats Harimoto who beats LSD. So I guess tomorrow will tell the true story lol....

Going through a lot right now. Finished playing the minor league TT league and struggled through a few matches. Had a good team but we had a player that just didn't know how to hit the ball. This led to too many situations where when playing equal or better players, he would get put away...

LSD is the favorite for sure but Anton when he is on is a machine. It used to make me feel bad for him when he was the best player in the TTBL and then he was struggling on tour. Happy he found a way to get to a better balance. China doesn't have a monopoly on fast, technical table tennis...

Maybe I need to revisit the Trinity but the Super Viscaria is really good. Maybe you should consider the Zhou Qihao blades if price is an issue? I think the Viscaria Super ALC does something special by having more speed and similar feeling to a regular Viscaria. I am not 100% sold on the...

Rassenfosse not convincing?

When the ball toss is lower, the angle of incidence of the server in generating spin and ball flight is different. The server can generate ball trajectories that would be harder to do if the ball were tossed higher. Tosses into the racket create forward rebound and easier topspin for example...

My point is that photoing the height without showing the whole serve especially when backward tosses raise the height requirements is bad form. In fact one of the easier things for umpires to judge which is relatively difficult for people to see on camera is backward tosses on serves where the...

Ovtcharov usually has a significant backward toss regardless of height or reason given for the fault. But everyone is entitled to their own outrage. It's part of the reason why I don't discuss the serve rules too much because illegal and dodgy serving has been normalized to a point where an...

The umpire is allowed to dault shady tosses per the rules. Now Ma Long seems close to retirement, there might be a chance. The reality is that people may not like what happens to the quality of serve return once hidden or dodgy serves are no longer possible. Returners have a lot of...

It's not a cost thing. The technology unfortunately affirms too many things we know about bad serves... it faults Ma Long...

3 and the win, it seems....

With the new ball, it is never really about power.

That is the biggest thing Robert is missing, most players, even Robert in some matches, do take a small step back. That said, Robert plays an extremely close to the table game and is a bit of an outlier in the men's game in how aggressively off the bounce he plays.

yes but he is trying to play it at professional quality and you can't see his training partner. If you swing much more slowly and hit the side of the ball slightly, the timing is easier if you don't use a lot of upper arm.

Fraser not tracking the score I think... it was 6-5 He and it became 6-6... the point was awarded correctly...

No one else can see what you saw, but throughout the match, he had been serving sidespin or light side back, so this time, he served a heavier side back twice and you put it in the net.

The serve order is determined by coin toss at the start of the match

I am not sure why @Tony's Table Tennis was so down on his chances, to me anyone who could even challenge Alexis Lebrun after the imperious form he showed at Euros and in his recent matches at Montpellier is in reasonably strong form.

The problem is the time such great competitive tussles take. Since this was the final game, maybe it was somewhat inevitable. But while the struggle is definitely far more dramatic than the golden point, the golden point also has an air of finality that has its own drama.

This kind of match will force a golden point rule at some point in table tennis. I think at 12-12, we should just do golden point and end this.