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It's not that simple, don't assume pros are stupid. Boosting doesn't "soften" the sponge, it increases the compressibility of a sponge. An already compressible sponge might not have the advantages of being hard.

This is part of the truth but not the whole truth. Even if it was safe, it might not be universally accessible, and they want to fight an arms race against escalating use of inaccessible and potentially deleterious stuff. But they frown upon PEDs that are broadly safe or taken in low doses so...

Not sure what your main argument is, if your racket is within the thickness limits and legal, it is, whether you boost or not is not testable and is up to your personal morality. If they make it legal or not is besides the point at this stage, they want to encourage the purchase of commercially...

I will be watching them live regardless.

She can play for Women's teams assuming they are being literal. But that said, everyone and their unborn little ones in the womb knew this was coming already - WYD was just pretending not to know. The two losses to Hayata closed the discussion but then another loss to Hirano, another loss to...

China will always be China! They keep the main thing the main thing.

You can't blame him for losing to GS champion below the neck. The versatility and consistency of Liang was borderline supernatural on some points, some of the best counteroffensive TT I have seen in a while. I actually forgave LJK for going reverse‐Haribauer on almost every point.

I agree on result but i expect the WCQ to have to solve LJK in real time and i don't think footwork or serve receive will be the deciding factors, it will be whether WCQ is humble enough to play away from LJK's backhand. I think the main reason LJK terrorizes lefties is that they keep trying...

You don't need a lot of formal instruction exclusively or immediately but the earlier you get some, the better. Recording your sessions and using them to improve your play can be helpful. More coaching tends to be better than less once you find the right coach (and invest some time in finding...

Again, Liang reminds us of why the best backhand in the world does not have to flashy, it just has to get the job done under a barrage of pressure. Amazing.

That said, she has figured out how to stop relying only on quality vs CM and to double down on consistency and pattern breaking. There is Olympic hope in WM's resolve so far.

Wang Manyu absolutely hates playing Chen Meng. You can tell it makes her fundamentally uncomfortable even when she gives it a great effort.

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It is amazing how people can keep the ball short over and over again in doubles, it is just a different level of play and shows you the hard work put into controlling the ball to gain the first attack - if you can do it in doubles, it is second nature in singles.

One of the best ways to identify a good coach (and this is uncommon) is to see how much interest they naturally take in your play when you are not with them.

The pendulum itself almost always ends up behind the body, side on serving is very difficult to make clean. Where Ma Long tends to get credit is that his contact is *usually* visible, but his toss almost always goes behind his head, but the racket contact is usually visible. In general, FZD...

I don't know about underwhelming, given that Liang was firmly behind even the likes of Jang Woojin and Lin Gaoyuan behind the likes of Koki Niwa, unlike Wang Chuqin who was largely struggling with older teammates. I think that in full context, both Lin and Liang outperformed their youth...

It is crazy that we might actually get a triple gold winner in table tennis and a triple gold winner at a WTTC sometime in the future. 2023, he was there, but there was so much respect for FZD that no one ever seriously discussed it. I thought SYS could get there on the women's side but she...

For the singles I agree with you, but for the Teams, I think the other teams have upped their game sufficiently that Boll is a better insurance policy than Franziska. Just my opinion.

Pretty much. Boll will have to get his ranking back into the top 15 to get taken seriously again. But I think Germany will be fine with or without him. They are the European Games champs. Boll will likely be the reserve player in case of injury.