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They called him for hiding them with his shoulder. Most likely a prior opponent complained.

Gacina has a very good backhand, and Aruna also has a good backhand. The days where Aruna had a bad backhand are gone, it is the disparity in the strokes that is stark.

I think it was last year that Freitas was in the Prelim of a tournament. That was amazing to see.

A lot depends on how much his opponent is struggling with his serve. And unfortunately, that is something that is very player specific no matter how good a server you are.

The biggest thing is for you to read the no spin ball. You often do not read it and treat it like backspin. The other thing is to not try to kill the high ball too hard. Just loop it somewhere. It is easy to loop the ball long if you are trying to kill it. Lastly, learn to loop the ball...

I love how far apart Ma Long and Xu Xin are in the draw. Now we just need Fang Bo to play Dima or Timo and everything is perfect!

Lol... not sure his ranking after doing that will satisfy the hardliners...

Thanks, I confused her with Qian Tianyi.

Yes, CNT. I have to go back to that - I quit watching out of surprise when it was 3-0.

I am fairly sure that Truls won that match. Not sure why you think Darko did.

I also think being up 3-1 and losing every game by 2 points doesn't help his cause.

No, I thought raineverever wrote this was a formal policy that losing in the qualifiers had harsh consequences on playing the pro tour. Maybe I missed that. YZY does have a chance to redeem himself in U21. It is not a permanent ban BTW, just for a period of time.

I think losing in qualifiers like that leads to a ban on playing for a while. Going to be a tough year for YZY.

Yes, Gauzy is problem opponent for Boll. Boll has serious problems with Gauzy's service and that prevents Boll from getting into rallies as he likes to.

Yes, this is exactly what I mean. People should not be confusing themselves with ITTF pros who play one or two or three matches a day. Even then, what FZD or most pros do when they play against lower rated players is try to out play them with their touch skills and consistency. It is when...

Dan delayed the review until Hugo beat Lin, Tomokazu, and Boll... perfect timing....

It all depends on the level of the opponent. I used to play with more close to the table blocking vs most opponents to start off. It was when that didn't work I tried to up the ante. I guess you do it in reverse, BRS. But for me, I save my energy for later. I push and block, then I loop at...

Because while I respect anyone who is willing to post a picture of himself with a table tennis star on a public forum, you say a lot of stuff just to get attention, stuff that is often easy to figure out is out of line with the reality of the table tennis world and isn't that complicated. While...

That's one way of thinking about it but do lesser sports just as easily draw the highest levels of athletic talent? Remember that one of the reasons why Richard Williams wanted his daughters to play tennis initially was that he felt that they needed true athletes in the sport given the money...

Just noticed that ESPN was trying to rank the most dominant athletes across different sports in the ESPN.com era (mostly last 20 years). Number 1 was Tiger Woods but what I found interesting was the argument they used to exclude some sports and I suspect that table tennis would have been...