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Not quite true. As long as your opponent isn't using frictionless pips (and even if so, though the skill level required in that case is a bit higher), you can reloop the ball repeatedly as long as you know how to open your paddle and loop.

I play with unboosted H3. It's now easier than ever to play with, and I got tired of losing to players using H3. I couldn't get them to ban H3 so I decided to use it myself.

I can't see the image but I don't doubt the services were flawed, I am juat saying that Harimoto serves long more than average. Watch the finals of the Japanese Championships and see how many times the announcers called it out and how often he won the points against power looper like Togami...

Gauzy is only 2 years older than LJK I think.

The quality of some of the shots that Sun Yingsha made in that match were flat out amazing - it gave you a good idea of how Hayata's defence frustrates regular players but Sun Yingsha ran down and attacked *everything*. The lack of highlight videos for these matches will hurt WTT.

You watch that and wonder how did Hayata get two games?

Gauzy vs LJK had an unhappy ending - no one likes an unhappy ending 🤣. But the first 4 and a half sets were purr magic.

That is one of the reasons I am a huge fan of his. People want to fat shame him but fail to realize he is just stronger than everyone else and uses that strength to bully the opponent with powerful shots. He will not win the "best backhand in the world" title because of aesthetics, but I think...

Looking at the tournament as a whole, while accepting the difficulty of estimating the level of effort being put out against Sun Yingsha in civil wars, it is fascinating that, Hayata, the only player who challenged her in a match without using pips and definitely the only player who got two...

Qian Tianyi and Ma Long amongst others did degrees while playing so this might not mean retiremrnt. Of course she will but when after Paris 2024? I think after WTTC 2025 at the earliest unless there is something private going on. Kuai Man doesn't seem quite ready. Qian Tianyi will leave the...

The other thing is to let the glue dry on both blade and rubber before doing putting the rubber on the blade (some use a blow dryer to quicken the process). Sometimes the glue being too wet let's the glue layers absorb each other without bonding so you don't get adhesion between the layers but...

Another obvious mention which should be completely uncontroversial is Dima. But haters gonna hate...

Moving away from the CNT and Koreans (apologies to Lee, Jang etc.) a bit, listing some guys who hit the ball hard, some of whom are superstars, others whom you have to see live or watch their peak matches to appreciate their Super Saiyan levels. Quadri Aruna, Ovidlu Ionescu, Hugo Calderano...

That's against Waldner, if you are going to say that no one else was playing similarly, it's not by looking at one player who had a forehand oriented style. What about this 3 years earlier? Or this? Kong had a strong backhand but his offensive use of the shot was nothing special. For...

I don't think of KLH quite that way though he is definitely one of my all time favorite players. I don't think he was *very modern*, he definitely didn't dominate the backhand diagonal like modern players do, even if aspects of his play are more balanced than say Wang Liqin, and he pivoted *a...

Hugo had beaten Lin Gaoyuan or someone else on the CNT 4-0 in Houston if memory serves me right. He went up 3-0 on Liang. Liang started doing the drop the ball short repeatedly thing and came back to win 4-3. Yet it seems you are so convinced that Hugo is now at a level that Liang has no...

He was safely the best player in France until the Lebruns showed up. Their arrival forced him to take the risks he was reluctant to take. It's often hilarious to hear people speak of improvement in a vacuum without understanding how reluctant top players are to change in the absence of...

Her abandon and relentless play was a joy to watch against everyone she played, it would be good to know the back story because it was just different. This has been a really fun event to watch. Gauzy, Jeon, Calderano, Hayata, Liang, all of them brought special stories. And even supporting...

It's really silly reading these posts, they didn't watch the match I just watched. I am old enough to remember when Rafael Nadal thought he would never win Wimbledon and then proceeded to do it the very next year.

Today's game in tennis uses similar tech, just evolved differently and over time.