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I think he just wants to give the impression that he didn't just pick the team with his eyes closed. We all know the team already. The top 3 guys have a year to fix it and so do the women.

Not sure why - Jang Woojin, Lee Sangsu and Jeoung Youngsik can be above Dima.and Ovtcharov and you never know how healthy Boll will be. I agree it is more likely Germany will be on top, but Korea is dangerous any time.

Don't underestimate Korea.

1. Play against opponents in matches on youtube using your footwork and a good laptop/screen that you can move around in front of. 2. Develop good short stroke technique, play your backhand with the hips and back and the forehand with left leg twist for shoulder and hip rotation - play neither...

MY best shot at the 2019 NA Teams tournament. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK5tPtHQncg&t=1015

Yes in a sense it all depends on what you are comparing to what and what you use to justify it. There are possibly women who can beat some men in the top 100 in table tennis. This is virtually impossible in tennis. There is a chess dimension to TT.

We can agree to disagree. When you say the women are never overpowered you probably have a very narrow definition of overpowered. You can be overpowered and still win a match. In any case my experience is different from yours. Yijun Feng is not a particularly powerful player and his ranking...

Yes but Kihara and Nagasaki were 14 and 16 and Kihara lost a close match to Qian Tianyi. It will be interesting to see what happens next year but the Japanese are stacked as Nagasaki is still eligible next year. You may be right about the Chinese girls but something about Kihara tells me it is...

I like the video but would not call it the finest video on the internet on the backhand topspin (it might be but that just shows the limitations of the internet). It teaches one technique amongst many and doesn't really work for the fast close to the table backhand topspin that dominates some...

Iamsan, not to be rude but it is pretty much a non-starter to ask serious questions about technique without posting video. If the best player in your club who I assume is at a decent level (2100+ or has coached at that level) is teaching you something then listen to him. Nothing in TT is...

Yes. That combined with the WJTTC results are a loud warning to the Chinese women. And we still haven't seen what Miwa Harimoto can do yet. Generations matter and it isn't clear they have a 15 year old on the level of Kihara (depending on how you evaluate Kuai Man), though the pips come with...

It's the Olympics!

They need to present the trophies and let's get on to what will likely be a disappointing main course. Father Time may have finally intervened in the ML-FZD battle.

This is not my experience at all. Hazin is not a player on the level.of Liu when you compare men and women. Hazin is not top 100 as a man and Liu is likely top 50 or better as a woman. The rating levels matter. But other than maybe when chopping with pips (in which case there is weaker...

Of course Niwa was lucky. But Mizutani never played a schedule that showed desperation.

Physical strength. Chen Meng is the strongest of the women players, Wang Manyu #2. That can change with age but Wang Manyu is used to overpowering players. It just doesn't work against Chen. Chen is a modest disappointment relative to physical talent level but she still has 4 years to fix...

Sour grapes. Koki Niwa had to beat the same Hugo Calderano that Muzutani couldn't beat as part of his effort.

I like a coach like that. He is just trying to relieve his players of useless pressure. That said he must not have heard that doubting your powers puts your powers in doubt.

Not quite. You can reorient your body you make contact in a way that makes the toss in front of your body or besides your body but has you rotating into the ball. It is just harder to do for a pendulum serve unless you are doing something like Samsonov and people don't want to do it. Most...

Body rotation or hiding the serve? Body rotation is a huge part of getting spin on anything. One of the reasons the tomahawk and punch serves are so heavy is that they usually involve significant body rotation.