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With backspin especially truly heavy backspin, the most common mistake is people misunderstanding how inverted rubber works and hitting into the ball. Inverted is grippy and rotates the ball on impact, your goal is to make sure your swing is adjusted to the spin and make the ball rotate. This...

Kiril who is supposedly middle tier is actually a top tier Asian player who would be a top tier European player. He has played well in the German league for years and gained notoriety years ago by pushing Fan Zhendong to the limit in a match. This year he beat both Dima and Dang in a team...

I never said a higher arc means a higher speed, but I suspect you meant to say a lower arc does not mean a higher speed. I said a lower arc means a higher speed. And this is true, all other things being equal. That it is untrue if all other things are not equal goes without saying. But in...

D80 is a faster rubber (slightly flatter trajectory) so it supports speed with shorter stroke mechanics. It is also in a related way is more direct so punching and blocking is easier. But these are all subtle things that may be slightly different from player to player. Looping with the...

Without photos or clarity on their sources, ping Sunday is not reliable.

You are allowed to smash you know, just because you call it a slap doesn't mean she isn't allowed to smash sometimes. That isn't her dominant forehand stroke though.

Doesn't surprise me at all, I switched from Skyline 3 to D80 and it's been pretty smooth with the improved speed doing wonders for my countering and blocking game. I used to distrust the claim that Harimoto used D05 on his forehand but I am not as distrustful anymore.

The short game I agree somewhat, but the truth is that Dignics was designed to be a ball holding series which is why many players don't like it on the forehand vs Tenergy. So you might be surprised with how controllable Dignics 80 us despite not being sticky.

These questions are weird to me. That said I know someone who has used D80 on both sides of a lot of inneforce blades, including the Felix Lebrun and the Harimoto blades and really likes it on those blades.

Yeah but Kim is a different breed, i never thought i would see a better lefty He Zhuoja with a real chop block. I think if He Zhuoja could chop block as well as Kim, she would be on the first national team. The hitting is on the same level but the chop block as variation to stay in the point...

Is it part of a serve attempt? No, so it doesn't matter.

Man, you want Hayata to lose her medal lol?

Here is an old Larry Hodges article that brings up one of the things that umpires tend to run away from: that the umpire is allowed to rule doubtful serves as incorrect. The rules are not the problem, the culture is the problem. Because if the culture was willing the change, the rules would...

Visibility to the receiver at the point of contact is not the current rule. Please read the current rule, and some of the umpire enforcement summaries/prescriptions. The ball should be visible throughout the serve to the receiver and nothing should obstruct the ball and the infinite upward...

You can reorient the pendulum to make it happen in front of the body and Truls already does something like this. Something like this is also true for various serves that are side on. But this would require pros to change the way they serve and they have not bought into this.

Yeah but your pendulum doesn't have the kind of sidespin action that we are talking about here. But I agree, it is possible to serve anything to pips and attack the return, it is just that people who serve sidespin without some practice have no hope of figuring out how the attack the return...

Not the point though, the point is that Jpen is not a serious limiter of your level at the amateur or even pro-level, it comes down to other things.

I don't know if I agree it is slapping but it is high level play for sure.

It is her best stroke. You haven't watched the matches lol.

Their coach didn't even come to the podium. That even spoke more loudly about the sentiments.