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This caught my eye because many players without untrained eyes might find the first serve better and wonder what the coaching did lol!

What you select is under pressure is usually some combination of what you think will work and what you have practiced doing over time, and flat shots are always more instinctive to produce than spin shots unless a lot of training has been done. Without video, I am not sure what quality of...

The most important thing is that you have good mentoring/coaching, I "fell" into the equipment junkie "trap" and I am not entirely sure it hurt my game - it definitely helped me see the psychology of choice. But this was in the 40mm cell ball days. As long as you are happy with your game and...

You have to come up the front of the ball just like you do with forehand serves. Some people do it with grip adjustments (taking the finger off the blade so that can make the blade angle up more by rotating the blade in the hand) but once you understand what you have to do and you are flexible...

Without video to tell whether you are being objective or not, you do sound very confident and don't seem to have much respect for your opponent's game. Our game of table tennis is a game of spin, and the ability to read spin can challenge one as much as athletic ability, sometimes even moreso...

What you are describing is very common for many reasons. And there are many angles to look at it from. If you don't record yourself a lot, in fact, how you felt about when you were hitting Ma Long forehands and Fan Zhendong backhands is a memory, you don't know whether it actually happened or...

Low stakes probably means a different thing for me and you. What would have been the consequences of Ma Long losing to Yoshimura? That's how I define the stakes - the loss simply gave him another opportunity to qualify. Remember, Ma Long already pulled this same stunt under very similar...

Won't find out until the weekend. Should be a bit slower than what I usually use.

ML lost to Yoshimura (in a match with very low stakes for ML) and then beat Togami (in a match with low stakes with very low stakes for ML). Anyone can lose and anyone can win, but the point is not to take the excuses seriously, but to take the result for what it is - if the form of Togami is...

Togami beats Wong Chun Ting in the same tournament and has multiple results and matches from other tournaments and now we are discussing injuries from July because he lost to Matsushima... seriously? No one knows the future, but the main point is that the kid is not average, how far above, we...

Nah, he is on tip toes and she is kneeling...

I am a fan of Lilian Bardet's forehand play. Does he have a sponsor that enables him to play so many events while other players from France don't travel as much? Or is he a player on the National team that is somehow on the radar?

I love this sport, there is a style for everyone who wants to work at it.

Trying to play ay the same level in matches that you do in training is dangerous. Unless in training your coach is trying to make you play worse, it is not like a match at all. In a match the opponent is trying to win too, all he needs to find is one thing you do not like and you cannot avoid...

I agree very much with this, I respect Mizutani and Niwa'a results and I get the skepticism tied to Matsushima's failure to dominate domestically, but I don't understand why understand why and when we started writing off 16 year olds based on that. On the foreign leagues question, I think the...

I think the general public has high standards, though to be fair, Yu Ziyang did beat Mizutani as a 16 year old (yes, with mild controversy) and never went on to bigger things for whatever reason. How many of the guys who finished above him in the U19 trials would beat Togami in a match? Just...

I am making assumptions around how you want to play (two-winged looping) and how you should optimally develop (trial and error with a focus on spin). To get good pace with slower equipment, people feel the need to swing harder and this can compromise technique. It can be just as efficient...

That's a good level. It would be interesting to see why you think your serve was the culprit.