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Don't use matches without stakes to judge the true nature of a matchup. If FZD plays ML in this event in the final, FZD will win, though I suspect the real threat is LJK.

Usually, how a player does against Ishikawa is usually a good way to tell whether the player is solid or not. So when a younger Diaz played Ishikawa one time, I had a lower opinion of Diaz's game back then and I thought Kasumi would destroy her badly. But weirdly, the games were...

Curious whether your thoughts are still the same after Hayata lost to a currently even less notable opponent.

I am really looking forward to the Fan vs Lim match. Lim is a really special talent, I was really surprised he didn't play in Chengdu.

Canadian ratings dont make sense, don't interpret them like US ratings.

They won't make the same mistakes they made with Tomokazu and even in developing Tomokazu, they are still learning. Thankfully Japan is deep enough at the ladies to challenge her. The thing about dominating the sport is that it comes with its own pressures and those pressures should not be...

It's incredibly hard to get better without the right training environment. I find that travelling to the right environment for a brief period like a camp if you can find one your wife will enjoy or she lets you go alone can be extremely beneficial for your game. As others have said, after you...

I think you are being a bit too kind to yourself. Part of the reason the hip rotation goes if that you aren't building up into it at a speed where it has to show up. How much pivot and cross and two step do you do at slower speeds or to cover smaller distances?

Thanks for this - my thoughts are that: 1. You need to hit with people more. Table tennis is as much a dance as it is a battle. 2. Your swinging hard in practice is not doing you favors because it is not letting you time the ball when it isn't in your sweet spot. It's not so much the...

Yokoi has a very nasty backhand topspin and it will be a while before we know here true level. Cheng I Ching is a good player, as is Qian Tianyi and Miwa Harimoto. At worst, three players will pass Ito and she won't get to play 2024. If that happens, it is a good thing for Japan. But no one...

She has her Olympic medals and has gone as far as her style can take her IMHO. She is still losing mostly to very top players so the level is about the same. Qian Tianyi when she was younger was the same level as Sun Yingsha, but since CNT isn't confident about either her or Kuai Man, but they...

Remember, Samara is also from Romania, and she played well as well. Sometimes, it is really about playing well in the close moments and Samara got loose as Chen Meng got tight.

Age (though to be fair, her opponent was older). But her opponent has been injured far more and all that Chinese training has to catch up to Chen Meng some day...

So the guy who is the highest level adult learner I know just had a career win. Not sure he wants the attention but here it is.

Spoken like a professional racket thrower.

Here is the loss to CCY.

Guys, let's remember that Noshad beat Lin Gaoyuan last year playing this style at the Asian Cup (not many highlight videos so people are not aware) and he has always been pretty backhand dominant even if not this extreme (he beat Wang Liqin in 2012). The problem is that the backhand is an...

For people who wondered what I meant, watch this match, especially the 4th game.

Not bizarre. Amazing. The 4th game in it's own way is the most amazing display of TT I have ever seen

Watching Noshad Alamiyan play, I sometimes feel like I am on drugs.