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Points have been allocated in the past for team events before WTT ever existed but this is one of those things where I will just let people determine for themselves whether the existence of ranking points has any bearing on whether a country should be able to field a full team or not and whether...

My coach taught me that the most important thing is to believe what keeps you in the right zone of competitiveness. It was usually positive and stoic but it wasn't always positive and stoic. It required some sustainability and application to wide circumstances so therefore most coaches would...

Killerspin equipment is not used by many (possibly any) advanced/tournament players and I don't believe they have any advanced equipment any more (stuff approved for use in tournaments with experienced players). So we won't be able to give you that much insight into what the nuanced differences...

A world class player past his prime (in the late 70s and 80s) once told me he would have done something to get Harimoto's attention if he had screamed playing him. I have seen lots of subtle and not-so-subtle games manship in TT. My main point is that as much as I get the stoic approach to...

It is probably because the OP was trying really hard to win a close game/match and something that would have been mildly annoying in most contexts and ignored by him in most contexts became an opportunity to voice his hidden feelings which he couldn't suppress as well in those specific...

Yes. That said, coping with opponent's mouth doesn't mean you cannot fight the opponent with verbal retaliation if that is your preferred way of coping with the mental warfare. That is why the stoic approach is not the only approach that is correct in these situations. The main argument for...

What good is supposed to come of mocking someone's mistake in an intensely competitive situation when you are both at close quarters with each other? I know when things are cool, it is easy to just laugh off, but it can be hard to know what someone's competitive mindset requires in tight...

Would be interesting to hear the logic but as I said many times, that penalty should never have been his, it should have been Nigeria's for failure to send enough players to field a team.

Mental game is complicated. The line between strength by building mental fortitude with isolated and internal concentration and weakness by allowing praise (whose presence may strengthen but whose absence may weaken, the converse for criticism) is thin. We are inherently social animals, even in...

This was a fun tournament. 1) Again great to see that Fan's superhuman rallying abilities have returned. 2) Timo reminds us that as long as you are an athlete, you can still spin to win. 3) Alexis Lebrun reminds us why he should be playing singles over Gauzy. 4) Quadri reminded me how much he...

Let me know how it goes, I am thinking about buying one as well, seems genuinely interesting.

It is clear both players were not at 100% throughout the match. So for me, WCQ is the favorite but at least we have Fan getting back to his true power level. So that when Quadri beats him, there will be no excuses. ;) ;)

You sound like Fang Bo : he argues with good logic that for sound technical forehand players, there is always time to play a forehand so focus your stance in being able to play a backhand. It's really funny that when I play, people who don't understand my game think my backhand is a control...

How do you effectively block with pace with Skyline 2? Is Skyline 3 better for this?

Haven't tried that much stuff, still working out a few things. Unboostef DHS stuff is still new, but for my attack first playing style it makes sense, there is work to be done for the countering but I will give it a run for a while.

Nah not hoping for WCQ to lose, hoping to see the two players on top of their game. More like Asian Games finals even if Fan was beginning to fall then already.

The best part of this tournament so far is seeing a normal Fan Zhendong again. Looking forward to tomorrow. You were missed, FZD!

No, it is not strawmanning, strawmanning means something very different from what you think it means. No it is not moving the goal posts either, because the point is why one should take any athlete's statement over lots of evidence. It is called pointing out that you are not even...

I think looking at the punishment that the Chinese put their players through to develop extremely fine and consistent looping and placement machines, Harimoto still has ways to go to up the physicality of his game to catch up to where Xiang Peng and Lin Shidong will be in a few years. Or even...

What Takkyu meant is that there are likely contexts in which Chen Meng spoke humbly about her gold medal so acting like what the athlete said (or anyone says) without the context of the whole achievement is giving one perspective too much privilege (or is Ito no longer the only Olympics singles...