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Hey, you have heard TTGuru's lawyerly defense of the ITTF. So they are doing the best they can. I would just put a cellphone there and stream it but what do I know.?

Amy Wang playing Ruta. Going to be a tough one for Amy dealing with Ruta strength to strength on the backhand. Olufunke is on table 1. Pillar of Nigerian TT but she needs to be replaced too.

Understood. And you believe that a match between Karaksevic and Maze won't generate social media content?

I get the lesser countries argument, but I think you (suspecting you have close ties to the ITTF) are rationalizing the ITTFs inability to work something out for situations like this.

Yeah. Just discuss what you want.

It probably is a function of assigning tables based on the draw. The ITTF should try to do a bit better as they try to grow the sport. Table and court reassignments to maximize eyeballs and take advantage of spectator interest are have common analogies in major sports.

Blocking video. https://youtu.be/Fl4RDcgpwIE This guy was taught in part by my main technical coach (Brett Clarke).

G-1 is pretty hard maybe like Vega Pro and around 47 degrees. C-1 is a bit softer closer to 45 degrees. But it is still a hard topsheet like G‐1. G-1 comes from the same generation as Barracuda, Genius and Hexer which I all liked with the plastic ball but which all didn't suit my game in...

I don't believe there is anything like passive blocking especially with modern equipment. There is soft blocking and there is hard blocking and both involve fairly active strokes. To block very passively, you need soft rubber and a guarantee that the ball will compress the sponge which only...

The transparency of the draw is nice. Otherwise, I would have thought there were some backdoor shenanigans.

$105 = 3 sheets of Fastarc C-1 or Fastarc G-1. That for me ends the discussion right there.

Dan gets Butterfly $1mm in sales with this review.

LGL continues to do what he is a master of, reframe the issue to get the best state of mind and performance out of his best athletes.

The Xu Xin commentary has to be one of my favorite of all time.

ML not doing post-match interviews said it all. He let one slip and he knew it. What it means for the future is the question. But not giving post-match interviews is not consistent with being okay with a loss because you didn't give your best. Not consistent at all. ML actively used his...

Whatever Ma Long lost (assuming mild rust) is invisible to my naked eye. He let FZD off the hook at the Asian Cup. I don't know what to take from a loss where Ma Long was up in just about every game. His serves look nastier and his third ball is surprisingly sharper. He just got caught by...

I have a high level friend who thinks Xu Xin hates playing his compatriots and can't bring forth the same effort as he does against players from other countries. My friend doesn't deny Xu Xin's imbalanced game so I found his perspective interesting.

Yeah. Though I believe if Xu Xin hadn't played all the events he was eligible for (which he also all won apart from the singles), it might have been a different story.

In 2015, I believe he got Fang Bo and lost 3-4 in R16 or so. He really deserves better.

Xu Xin will get ML. He has that kind of luck.