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Sounds like the regulations made her play for some reason so she protested with the quality of her play.

This is clearly weird, someone needs to explain this, but TT is a broke sport.

Iike the part about guiding a lot. You do your shot, see what happens to the ball, and then use that as feedback to figure out how to adjust the next time. Over time, you should get to a good shot with a decent placement. Too long, close and swing more over the ball. Into the net, make...

Mengel has played intergalactic table tennis in these feeders - a couple of samples - I will leave the match and celebration at the end of Dusseldorf as homework, lol:

Table tennis is a sport you play more than you intellectualize, it is best to experiment to learn these things if possible. If not, don't stress over it, try things until something works, it is the pressure of the point that wreaks havoc on your patience to try things out, but once you let that...

Very fast hands. Sleight of hand is amazing.

To be fair to myself, the guy posted many points he won against a 2250 player. If we took those points as being representative and the rating as given, that makes him higher than 2250. 2250 is not a joke rating, it is dominant rating of players in divisions 2 and 3 of the NA Teams, to give one...

Continental championships are not the same as the world championships, everyone has a different priority there. So saying that a player didnt play continental events doesn't mean much. But whatever the reason Felix will be fine. Whether he decided to come back to play WJTTC is entirely up to him.

It is good that I am watching so much TT now that my memories are beginning to blur.

He played this tournament last year for sure. But you could ask the same question about Lin Shidong who won it last year. Yes, but WJTTC is a title that many players want when they haven't won it. Kuai Man is here for example I am confident Felix would be here if the Mixed World Cup wasn't...

Japan just completed a tough comeback vs Korea. Their #3 Yoshiyama fought hard in a very close match, and his win gave his teammates who had lost their previous matches to go down 0-2 the desire to finish and come back. Matsushima won a close match over Oh 3-2, and Hagarira (I am probably...

He is probably playing the Mixed Team World Cup event that immediately follows this one and prioritized that over this. I did a double take when I didn't see him initially, his teammates played really well against China and must have felt the loss of their ace.

Nah, he is one of the few that have another December event and they may have prioritized the Mixed World Cup event over this for his development. Sora and Lin are not going to that event as far as I know.

Probably my favorite event every year. Great to see what the future holds in TT.

Yesterday was a tough day. It was insightful to be reminded of my strengths and weaknesses. One pain point is that the Teams is played on concrete floors with the sticky matting and I haven't played on that in a while since I moved to Texas. It does make a big difference for my movement...

The problem with TT is that it is expensive fo build a player that breaks through, especially with the dominance of some other countries. So the funding may never come if that is the case.

While I don't post my full name on forums often or ever in the age of Google and Facebook, I do post a lot of video and share a lot of details that make it fairly easy to tell who I am. I started playing seriously about 12 years ago. My current USATT is around 1950 (though my current play is...

Wrote a long edit to the post above but lost it. Basically I managed to win that match 14‐12 in the 5th there by keeping my team in balance as i wasn't favored against any of the kids but our #2 had lost to one of them and we needed to give our #1 two wins to add to his three. I also played a...

So we played two more teams matches. Unfortunately I broke my tripod so I couldn't record anything. Wil ln try to find glue and see whether I can fix it tonight. The first was against a 2 girls and a boy, likely all below the age of fourteen. The girl I played was rated 2008 and has long pips...

Worship at the altar of spin generation for a year. You won't be disappointed. After that, your options will expand and you can decide whether you want to focus on speed or spin.