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I think serving long when you are up or down match point is begging the opponent to respond with their training. Of course a kick topspin serve when you have three match points is not what I am thinking about. I am thinking about serving fast and long and hoping that the opponent misses or...

To prove me wrong,. Chen serves long on match point lol! But she had 3, not one! And she used a kicker!

This sucks - this is going to be painful....

Feeling for CIC... hope she can finish it - for pros, it also applies - don't serve long on match point, no matter how tempting it may be!

It is not an upset until a Chinese player loses lol.

Yeah. I struggled with a lot of underrated players. But it is good to be back under 2000 again so I can play more events. It is just unfortunate that I am travelling out of the country during Nationals or I would have played.

Yes attacking long serves is the proper way to play. Don't confuse that with whether a specific player's long serves will be easy or hard for you to return, especially as part of a match strategy with various spins, placements and deceptions.

I used this serve a lot, and now, I serve a lot of backhand long into the backhand for the same reason. In general, if you want to go long to start a long, it is best to go to the backhand.

When I watch pros, sometimes, I take comfort that they make the same errors we make, it is just with the game flowing at a much higher speed than ours does.

Losing to Wang Chuqin and Dima/Franziska should never hurt anyone's credibility. Unless you know little about table tennis and just want to put a man down for having aspirations.

That's not entirely fair, he is a talented player, he has to voice his worth in advance of knowing the draw, losing to good teams is always a possibility.

Omar played incredibly well. I thi m he is on a mission to set his own records and become the African #1.

Robles is a good player - you could play the match 10 times and get coin flip results. Can't complain about losing to good players.

Waldner never developed one. Samsonov neither. Some players cant do it legally. So don't over think it. The Punch, backhand and tomahawk serves are decent alternatives. I did it with remotely guided coaching over a period of 2 months. Threw a lot of frisbees. And when I don't use it, it...

In table tennis, it is normal to let the judgment of the umpire stand. Umpires can mess things up, and sometimes you have to learn to accept it. Wang has been the top play in North America for many years. Had the experience of being destroyed by him once, it was all fun. Finally, it is okay...

The high elbow position helps sidespin, so the ball will curve into the table. So you need to adjust your direction when you contact the ball so that the ball curves more down the line (or really outside the table and bends back in), or take off the sidespin and just fast serve down the line...

Control your breathing. Look up breathing exercises on youtube from someone you trust, there are a lot and most of them are reasonable.

Ma Long has always been somewhat fragile about such things. He is just so immensely talented that it doesn't matter, but his mental game is not his relative strength,

Pucar vs Wang likely to be the match of the tournament for length and style battle lol. When game 6 and game 7 are 19-17, 15-13, you know watched something different. I wonder how long the highlights video will be.

Coaching is a very interesting thing.