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So if we take the rankings literally and estimate Kanak as being An Jaehyun's peer, Kanak is still roughly top 40 strength,

An Jaehyun rewrote table tennis history with that win. That's the way it seems now.

I need to watch more Ma Jinbao too if that is what it takes lol!

Odo just looks more complete, though these things are not just about the player, they are also about the competition. Odo would be on any first national team outside of China and Japan.

His whole Bundesliga team got into the draw here, so I think this is a special case.

Yeah, I actually sometimes do a similar shot, when played against heavy topspin, it is a legit counter, the practice you did at 3:05 to 3:11 when he is actually looping into it with various degrees of spin and you are doing it is more when you should be using that shot. I also have a Nigerian...

Work on the service then. If pros are struggling with reading no spin serves, you can't be just struggling to get bad returns because your opponents are reading perfectly. I suspect the really issue is that your backspin serve is not heavy enough. .

No. Unusual shots are a relative weapon at all levels, as long as they are not preventing you from developing your overall game. The shot doesn't seem that flat to be honest, it will be interesting to see whether you can maintain it vs higher levels of spin.

People who want to pretend thar long pips can turn water into wine want to eat their cake and have it. In reality, any long pips that is less predictable also plays more and more like short pips or inverted with maybe a few more ball deadening abilities. It's possible for pips users to do...

The slice shot against incoming backspin you mean. Not against incoming topspin. People who don't know you don't know you are trolling on purpose.

Yes this is correct, but is entirely dependent on the incoming spin and is rarely if ever "heavy". I agree that reading the ball as if it is an inverted ball is the biggest problem, but that is not just about spin inversion but about the float ball as well.

These things are all debates, but the GOAT in his prime doesn't necessarily mean the highest level of play ever achieved. I still consider the single best tournament ever played to be Waldner in 1997 in Manchester (won all his matches without dropping a game). And I also rate 2011 Ma Long...

Usually, it would kill the spin on the ball - it is a chop block that produces heavy underspin, it is hard to hit a topspin ball with pips and create heavy backspin. In any case, you are the expert in what you have experienced, thanks for sharing.

I thought Yokoi would avenge the last tournament but alas, after going up 2-0 and I Stopped watching, I find she lost 2-3. Seriously? Odo, whenever I watch her, I keep seeing a smaller Hirano and for my mental attitude, I think it works.

No, not really, JackWong just has disappeared. WCT has been very consistent, including the Asian Games bronze and the last WTTTC in Busan. Ultimately, you can't play the Teams event when you don't have a Team, even when you yourself don't lose any matches.

That's one rationalization. That said, he can and does score points of his serves and now he can clearly loop kill loose returns. But the serve itself doesn't scare anyone and it is all various pendulums and straight backspin no spin combos and I can't remember the last time I saw him serve...

I think he has always done that as far as I can remember. But my memory may be faulty - he still has those very basic serves that somehow work well for him.

Tanaka has shown he can beat WCQ so he doesn't have to worry about the rest of the world ;)

It was complete domination, Shinopi did try some short topspin serves in game 2 thar made it interesting but on the whole, Kanak annihilated him for that level of play

What I like about Wakkibaty's post is the reminder that to grow a sport, you need to build industry around it. Is tennis really that much more TV friendly than table tennis is? I am not entirely sold. Not even sure football/soccer is that entertaining either if you come to it as an adult and...