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What I like about Polcanova is that she tends to play well even when she is being beaten. You don't get the impression like when watching other players that she is hopelessly lost. I would have loved to see her play Hayata but Qian will have to do.

If you train a lot of table tennis, even as a tournament playing amateur, you will realize that this is the cycle of life. Fan Zhendong, Ma Long, Xu Xin - the greatest players go through this. Why not 16 year old Harimoto? And honestly, losing to Dima is not a bad thing. Dima is a pretty...

It is a bad novel ‐ you don't need to read the whole book to how the story ends.

Polcanova will be the only European born lady left in the second round after tomorrow. She seems to be the only one who can play the Asian style competently.

I don't know about much better and everyone develops differently. Let's remember how well Truls did in WTTC at a very young age. Just a month ago, I was talking to people who were disputing whether Kanak was clearly a top 100 player - they were saying that Pletea and Sipos were far ahead and I...

Jeoung is one of my favorite if not my favorite player.

What happened to Jeoung in the last game vs Franziska?

Yes, because they don't play as much doubles and your posts and I can dispute your understanding of their value as doubles partners. Another special doubles player was Zhang Jike but health was not kind to him.

If they weren't lefties, they wouldn't have something more.

You are giving players too much credit for being lefties. IMO, Ma Long is just something else in doubles. So is Liu Shiwen.

They just didn't want to waste their time and didn't know about their good fortune.

Don't underestimate the impact of age on Truls. He also changed equipment recently so he has to relearn his game.

Post 10000!

The TT gods have granted us the ideal matchup to see whether Harimoto is now a man or still a mouse. Playing against Filus will let us see how far his footwork and forehand have truly come.

Kanak Jha makes the main draw. This is an amazing month for him so far.

Everyone tends to time slower balls better so they use more acceleration on them usually. Against topspin off the table, when the ball decelerates, people can do similar things.

That is a timing and swing trajectory issue. If your wrist is making the racket go faster, there isn't anything clearly wrong with that. The question is whether you can control the planr and timing of the movement so that you get the effects you desire. Usually I encourage people to just time...

It is an illusion at the end of a kinetic chain. What usually characterizes those players is that they don't move as aggressively as other players and often don't get low. So people think they are using wrists. But you can't hit the ball either your wrists, you can only use a chain motion to...

The most important thing IMO is that you have the knowledge and the flexibility to make the choices. Many people don't and have been completely miseducated by the commercial and ideological interests driving the "one plant based diet with 3 or more meals a day fits all" paradigm to dominate...

Quitting playing last year in some ways was one of the best things that ever happened to me. I started gaining weight rapidly and having a visible recalcitrant fluid buildup in my right leg after I stopped. That fluid build up kinda freaked me out. So trying to address that led me to...