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Where I live, you have to pay more for refundable tickets in order to be able to change or cancel. And last minute changes closer to the deadline often incur higher costs based on demand closer to the date. Maybe our experiences in the US are different from your experiences in Greece.

I wish you wrote regular English, it is harder to see the different terminologies using a translator. There was a time Dima tried using Hurricane on forehand during the brief period he was coached by Persson. After a while, he gave up and went back to his regular rubbers before Butterfly...

Professional is a vague term, it refers to Quadri as well as to Fan Zhendong as well as to Simon Gauzy as well as Timo Boll or Ibrahim Diaw or Luka Mladenovic. And trust me, Quadri is the one who bears the costs when things get moved because he has to plan out how to feed his family and make...

This is borderline trolling, do you actually play table tennis or know any pros?

You wrote " imagine him playing with technical stuff because he cannot push on his FH and keeps using his BH to do so." My point is that since it is not to his advantage to use that, why should he use it? And that when Luka is using such material, or even Gionis, is it because they have an...

Part of the problem with the world is when someone sees something he cannot understand and deems it a bad thing because he cannot understand it. The game is not to hit the hardest ball possible, it is to keep the ball on the table given the rules. But it is okay, you have your own opinion, but...

So you think it would have being easier for him to use "technical stuff" to achieve his goals?

You need to get out more and see more unorthodox table tennis styles if you really believe this. There are a lot of styles out there that if honed to a high level by someone with the physical capability, could get someone into top hundred. You just won't see or hear about them because as a...

It's really a comment about the player's understanding of table tennis. Blahness is mostly trolling for/against pips with some of his comments, but lowday20298 revealed his familiarity with table tennis as a combination of mind and muscle right there.

No, it is not proof of anything. You have to know his story to say that. And such story would be true of even someone who has technical shortcomings which you do not notice because you have the anti-pips bias.

Ever heard of Pavel Platonov? Dima Ovtcharov? Thomas Keinath? Quadri Aruna? Benedek Olah? Many if not all players have technical shortcomings which they compensate for with other things - do you only notice this when it happens with rubbers that are not inverted? You even notice this in...

FIFA had to step in a long time ago to make it harder for clubs to keep players from national assignments. But the biggest difference is that there is a lot of money in football, it is part of the reason America keeps working on establishing it. Table tennis is a broke sport and the culture of...

I saw a guy using it and I liked the way he played with it with so I bought one and I really liked it too - played some matches with Rakza Z EH on both sides. I could definitely play with it, I have probably gotten a bit too used to the extra rebound from Carbon for some things with my forehand...

I am not sure whether to laugh, be suprised, be approving or cry.

It took a long time for players (from smaller countries internationally, especially if they were stars in big leagues) to get the rights to be able to play national/international events for country without the club retaliating in some manner, and it might have required some mediation between...

People have differing opinions, I have friends who said he shouldn't have brought up money. But the truth is that WTT wants to "professionalize" the sport, and some of the things he is mentioning, it begs the question of whether accommodations would not have been made for more influential...

The reason Rakza Z is slow isn't because it is *just slow* - it is because created so much arc that you can hit the ball when it's time for breakfast, you can grab lunch while the ball is at max height, and pick up dinner when the ball lands. I don't remember using a safer rubber vs backspin...

Are we talking about strictly winning or losing or that your argument is that today's athletes are supposedly much better than yesterday's athletes despite playing competitive games against said athletes? If Timo in his late 30s and early 40s is playing close games with Calderano or other...

Again, there are players who played in both eras still playing to today, in their 40s and even 50s. Chuang Chi Yuan, Timo Boll, Korbel, Samsonov etc. None of them were embarassed, even in their 40s, by the players you are claiming would smoke them out of the park. The evidence doesn't support...

And this is the same Calderano that loses to Harimoto who had poor footwork during all those wins - see where this is going... the fact that players like Samsonov and Boll who played in both eras and did pretty well closes the argument for me so I am not going to imagine much. I have seen...