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Tried to see whether I could get Skyline TG2 to block better if I out it on the Cybershape. Epic fail. So I cannot use Skyline 2 on my backhand because I cannot block sitters to hungry Texan attackers looking for balls to drive. I have to work more aggressively on reading and adjusting my...

So I tried to see whether I could rehabilitate Skyline 2 on backhand by putting it on both sides of a Cybershape. Maybe the issues with blocking were because the blade was slow...well no, the blocking still sucked on the Cybershape Carbon. Skyline 2 is the first rubber in a while where I have...

He will be fine in the long term, definitely with the continental boost but even without it. It is just the pressure of things at the current moment that will affect him a bit since the Olympjcs is on the horizon.

That's not how I remember it but that said, at the highest levels, these things tend to blur anyways. But hitting through the sponge has always been how non-tacky rubbers get their best spin while tacky rubbers respond to brushing, the main difference as I remember it is that tacky rubbers tend...

Former World Champion in Jia A, of course there must be some spotlight.

Exactly - a lot goes back to whether fairness is a good or bad thing. China has a lot of talent so it isn't obviously a problem yet, but all it will take is for them to start losing a few and then there will be a real debate whether the system is sufficiently meritocratic or not, even with...

I don't think separation by association is as big a deal as avoiding China before the QF - if Hirano by some miracle falls into Shin Yubin's quarter, I think that will be sufficient. Though of course, if they were sending Miwa, they would likely have the 4th seed as long as she defends Tunis...

You should take your time to read what you just wrote - you are pointing out that Hirano would have turned her focus to WR even though the PDR didn't allow her to enter events. And you are arguing that Hayata maintained her WR because of things she did in 2021 that Hirano supposedly couldn't...

Jules did his homework well. And he has the quality of topspin to put Kanak under pressure.

Ma Jinbao makes it, Kanak does not.

That was the player's choices. If Mima or Miu had done better in the prior qualification events like Hina had, they could have played some of those Star Contenders like Doha and Contenders to the degree they really wanted to, but let's be real, few players miss national championships to...

Thanks for the call out. He gets it, you are just criticizing with the assumption of perfect foresight while diminishing the issues that drove some of the Japanese decisions. Hayata managed to maintain her ranking despite all the things that you have pointed out. Harimoto also has a great...

Most coaches develop players the way they were coached and developed, and the stereotypical Chinese coaches you are speaking of are very technical and are very good for learning juniors or ambitious athletic adults. Regardless, all good coaches take into account the nuances of the player they...

I would listen to you. In fact, I am waiting for you to actually display your strokes and to show how the backhand is so different from the forehand that everything I have written and said, based on my experience training and coaching, is flat out wrong. Since I am speaking from experience, I...

Well we have a pretty small TT community in the US so everyone tends to know everyone. I used to be a staple of TTEdge.com videos at one time. I just got injured then got married and now other things have mixed priority with TT. But I enjoy and love the sport and do what I can to support and...

The swing mechanics are different but it is easy to overstate how different they are. Your arguments sound to me like saying that left and right handed players are so different that there is no similarity between them. Or that the strokes are so different that pronation and supination are not...

Okay. If you read carefully what I wrote, you will see that I made the point you made and still made the claim that once one swings relatively well on both sides, there is little need to make a sharp distinction between what one can play with on both sides and that there is no different in the...

Spin is generated broadly the same way regardless of technique. It is like saying that throwing a frisbee from left to right across your body is completely different from throwing a frisbee from right to left across your body. There are aspects of human physiology that make certain things...

I disagree that they are hugely different strokes, but the point here is that a lot of this comes down to philosophical approach and coaching.

That's one argument for sure, but this is not where it applies since this kid wasn't part of a group coaching system where he came out on top. The US is different, this isn't group coaching, this is a kid that a parent bought to a club and paid the coach to train him from beginner level and the...