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Kallberg loses to Jin Ueda... (okay???) Steger to Stumper Dang loses to Zeljko (WHAT!!!) Kallberg beats Steger (sanity) Ueda/Allegro beat Dang/Haug (Allegro is one of the best doubles players in the world so...) Is it that the pros were tired from Singapore or something else? Beating...

Whenever someone complains about the sidespin on my loop, if they have the patience, I point them to this video.

Being stuck close the table has me looking for options, so I am at a cross roads of sorts. I really should just accept it is almost impossible to get better playing once a week but losing to some players is just getting to my pride.

I remembered I forgot Kihara after I wrote my post, and again, the existence of WMY is the key. They framed it as a singles thing, but the reality is that WYD is just toast with respect to the Olympics, the team is better able to tolerate Chen Meng at #3. The Chen Meng and Wang Manyu pairing...

Sometimes, it depends on whether you are focused on design/materials, playing style or both. All three will appeal to the same kind of player, but the outer ply being koto vs limba might be a big deal in which case you would prefer the MK Carbon.

I think he meant FZD vs WCQ. Come on, Tony, give him more credit than that...

Good to hear you are playing again, if possible invest some time into physical therapy if you haven't already.

Definitely wasn't me that said anything about the stability of topspin rallies, I have always called Wang the king of low arcing topspin. Fan used to make it work against Wang from time to time with well placed counters and blocks to the wide forehand but Fan seems to be on vacation at the moment

It could also have easily been 2-2, people see what they want to see.

Since I didn't discuss women, better to give them their category. WMY didn't change anything for me, but I agree that beating those pipa players was important.

Taking inventory of this tournament as a whole, Qiu Dang. Liang Jingkun, Cho Daesong and Timo Boll are the big winners by the eye test. Achanta was a big winner but I think his win won't affect as much as the others. Lin Yun Ju. Harimoto and Felix Lebrun stayed fairly level and took what the...

Well Korea will let us know whether Fan still has something to say or not.

It was really amazing, the final confirmed it because Liang brought back balls that his other opponents could not bring back and Wang brought them back with interest. I still am a bit shocked by what I just saw. Yesterday, Anders LInd was saying in WTT youtube comments that this is the...

If it isn't on video, it never happened. I find that the game is never quite how you remember it lol. But seriously, congrats on getting the feeling of invincibility.

That was impressive. Definitely a higher level than I remember seeing from even most players I consider physical.

Alright - I think without putting tackiness (which is possibly what you mean by Chinese) on the chart, it is hard to understand and hybrid rubbers are the bulk of ESN rubbers nowadays at the professional level on the forehand. Tackiness helps a rubber play with more touch in the short game, and...

For people serious about looking at the reality of things, substituting logic for data is a bad idea. However, if we do have the data, finding a good story to explain it is a good idea. So you have skipped a step.

I think these kinds of narratives around athletes without being familiar with their individual situations, while fair game, are very likely to be naive or completely wrong (after all, FZD and LJK are fatties). The truth is that LYJ has done a lot of physical work to get stronger and Bobrow has...

The only way they can tell you boost is you or they bought the original rubber and compared it to the one on your blade, assuming that the your rubber passes the tests around thickness limits. All that is enforced are the thickness limits.