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I will remind you of this wisdom if you return to your posts to discuss how to save table tennis as they almost entirely rely on if this and that then what. .lol.

You make fair points but I don't think any sport that pays $100k as top prize for its most competitive event is that lucrative. If the endorsements he will get can make him a multimillionaire, sure and I guess that there might be a couple of top stars doing similar things. Unlike tennis or...

You don't know how much of a genius he is. Top level grandmasters make money but one who was a world championship finalist as a youth quit playing to attend medical school and played causally later in life. I want him to stay. But people who are good at TT can sometimes make more money doing...

Money. "Normal" is relative. The problem with TT though is money. If he was as good at tennis as he was at table tennis, there would be no sense in retiring for a job that paid far less.

He expected he would be playing Fan Zhendong or Harimoto after Harimoto had given him cover by beating Fan Zhendong.

Mizutani beat LJK. LGY's fault? Calderano beat FZD. LGY's fault? I suspect your not-so subtle argument is that XX could have done better than LGY. Well, XX will have chances to prove this in WTTC next year. But Harimoto is improving. When the XX record will shift is anyone's guess.

If LGY was righthanded he would be the perfect Harimoto clone.

Can anyone see anything on the ittf website? This is ridiculous.

Only one person said it was evil and it is because he hates the word "clone" (hopefully he is not as allergic to the word "copy").. I was actually pointing out that it is likely the reason that He Zhuojia is improving and getting more opportunities. Thanks for bringing more information. We may...

She has changed her equipment. Even the way she plays with it is now different. She has gone back to something closer to SP. She isn't chop blocking as much if at all.

The idea that Cheng Yinghua and Larry Hodges are questionable sources is not something I can accept. They are both USATT Hall of famers and Cheng was a practice partner for China's penholders in the 80s and a strong world class player even well after his prime. So the word "clone" is what...

An ancestor very likely did. In any case, I have dabbled in enough philosophy etc. Let's get back to TT.

How did you raise your children? How do you treat your wife? Do you favor them over others, or do you treat strangers like them?

He did beat Harimoto convincingly the last time they played... that said, so did Calderano...

People do adjust their games to mimic opponents, especially in *practice*. It depends on a variety of things, but the main one is the shot sequence that the opponent prefers. One thing I mentioned, and I could be seeing things, but no one has taken me up to discuss it, is that He Zhuojia seems...

IT's called "The Modern Denial of Human Nature".

The first thing is that it is not a myth: http://www.masatenisi.org/english/secrets.htm The second thing is that it is no different from having someone play a certain style so that you can practice against it, which you have pointed out. What I don't get is that I would never pretend you are...

No one is being played and exploited. We are all intelligent teens/adults who know how to think. We come here to have fun. Soccer teams have fans. Players have fans. National teams have fans. Corporations have fans. No one is naively embracing anything just because they do not agree with you.

It's really funny how far some people will go to pretend that the world is not a certain way.

This is a funny post. If I call Hao Shuai "the Timo Boll clone", does that mean Hao Shuai was raised and bred and gave up his whole life to play like Timo Boll in order to support the main team? Since you described what the "cloning" process is like, where a player simply mimics an opponent...