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Come to think of it, the only thing somewhat exciting about this tournament is the participation of Zhu - it will be similar I think though not as big for obvious reasons to the return of Zhang Jike. The draw only gives her two matches at most if she is lucky so we will see how it goes.

The draw is crappy - maybe it is post-Olympics hangover but I am not excited...

Unevenly glued rubbers play fine in my experience. I win with them just as much as I win with evenly glued ones. Don't get me wrong, it is good to care about the flatness of your rubber, but one shouldn't care about it if the main concern is that it will make them play noticeably worse. What...

Yes. All these things don't really matter. Let the glue dry and then remove it if you want and do another layer. Or glue it on and maybe it might be slightly uneven but it won't be much if it is mostly flat. People obsess over glue jobs but the most important thing is a good bond between...

Let's put it this way - if you took ratings out of the picture, almost all of our OP's issues would disappear. He would stop obsessing over the results and focus more on how to win broadly and close his technical deficiencies. My point is not that his reaction is common as in that it is...

That's the secret IMHO to playing level stability and mental strength in TT. You have unlocked a key to playing table tennis with good mental health and stable playing strength, regardless of how much you play and how many tournaments you participate in. Whether you win or lose you will always...

It is very impressive and most people would love to straightforwardly celebrate the achievement. OP being OP, it always has Its wrinkles...

The rating historically is reasonably strong (expert strength or maybe top 10% of tournament players ) in most ELO systems. My late coach said that 2000 level players were like unicorns before the proliferation of Asian immigrant coaching. 2200 and 2400 are clearly more elite and probably...

Ratings stress is one of the most common dysfunctional behaviors in sports that use dynamic ELO ratings, whether it is chess, table tennis or something else. Other than the depth of description, what OP is going through isn't that uncommon, people just tell it or handle it differently. Some...

If you have played enough tournaments and league matches, nothing @dingyibvs is saying is rocket science. Better players tend to be better by being able to do things at 80% effort that keep them consistent against worse players playing at 110% effort. When someone is stressed about losing to...

This thread is an interesting way to announce breaking 2200 without announcing breaking 2200. At least Scrubplayer won't go around saying he is really 2400 because he is underrated and plays in LA since he came to the East Coast and didn't see the miraculous jump in rating he expected. Much...

I get ir, we can juat throw our hands up in the air and go home. But no seriously, anyone who was watched the all about Tenergy videos and read the Butterfly blade specifications charts anf rubber apeed and spin charts and thinks the Butterfly ratings are entirely meaningless is entitled to...

158 by 152 is fairly common as well.

Hobby players! Count me in!

Yeah. But she played subpar internationally before last month. Maybe Odo just gave her the points out of charity lol. Odo doesn't need them at the moment.

That was a surprise - looks like Yokoi is playing closer to what she does in t-League now lol... either that or Odo was completely off...

So I think our ultimate diagnosis is different. I see in OP a player who got to 1900 and misunderstood what the 1900 rating was because of how he got there, and assumed that 1900 earned after playing for a few tournaments (say 20 matches or much less) was the same as 1900 earned after playing...

In my experience, such things work far better when tied to skill development and weapons that the players actually deploy. You can't reduce your risk in tight moments if you do not have the skills to reduce your risk in tight moments. The mental aspect is often spoken about as if it is...

Traveling across the world to get knocked out by your teammate in the first round. Thanks, WTT!

You can't train mental strength apart from technical tools. That is what he meant. This is true. Even Djokovic had to improve his serve, fitness and shot selection. While he speaks about training mental strength with things like breathing, the main point is that how you use your competitive...