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So when I tell people to suck it up in the US, it is because very often in the US, when this stuff haopens in a tournament: 1. There is no guarantee that the umpire will save you because he might be busy with another match or just might not even agree with your assessment as consistently as you...

Had an interesting weekend. I played a local event, U2150 and Open. In the U2150, I was the B player in my group. Thr A player came late so I played the D player first, a guy with pips whose game I was familiar with from friendly matches. Then the C player played the D player and won as...

It's to hide both, both are important. The whole picture contains information, knowing how the racket is travelling into the ball is perfect information, but hiding the ball by definition makes the contact hard to discern. You want go take a mental picture of how the ball was contacted

The angle of the throw is partly what creates the hidden serve (throwing it backwards to a point of invisibility). And there are other things about throwing the ball into the racket but that's not the point. The problem with non vertical tosses is that the forward momentum of the ball from the...

I have seem way more than that, but again, it goes to skill level.

The other point is the skill level of the hidden serves and the follow up of the opponent. Some players don't take major advantage of the hiding and their serves are what they are. But some players actually do make serves that are incredibly difficult to read from the bounce trajectory (good...

Xiao Zhan virtually injured her with his overworking training regiment. She is doing well with Ma Lin and should stay with him

He flipped his paddle to play Liang as well. It is good to bet with house money.

Yeah but this backhand serve was a backhand sidespin serve into the lefty short forehand. Which was doing exactly what his reverse serve did but with more control and faster backhand recovery. You don't lose 3‐1, 6-2 up with a history of choking and escape the label because it happened against...

The best match I have seen between them remains the ancient wjttc final lol. Their destinies still remain entangled IMHO and I wouldn't be surprised if Wang won the Olympic gold.

They got a massive event done on two tables. As crappy as the round robin rules were on ties, they deserve some credit.

Playing a player with injured form is much harder for pros who are used to the player than you realize because many of the signals you use to read the ball don't show up. But I would like to believe that Lin got more and more nervous as the match went on and couldn't even think objectively...

They probably saw Harimoto play Lin Gaoyuan and decided it wasn't worth the match.

Inability to adapt is part of choking, but there were some loss of form dynamics in play. There were quite a few forehands in that match that Ma Long hit without his lower body.

The Legend of Lin the Choker has been written into stone with this one.

Immediately his form comes back, Lin's quality returns as well.

What he is doing on touch is juat incredible.

You can do that on adrenaline when there is something to play for. The problem is likely in his left knee or there abouts. So he uses the backhand serve to reduce it but will go for what is available. Lin has the right strategy of playing to the middle but he isn't always hitting his spot. I...

Ms Long clearly injured, the commentators can't even tell those are injured player shots. Ma Long has lost his form and is just swinging and trying stuff to compensate for some injury that he obviously will not discuss.