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Calderano is already in a great situation. It's just not as good as playing Ma Long so often that you get to figure out where you are and works and doesn't work against you vs. someone who can implement it at the highest level. The only thing I could see for someone like him is playing T2APAC...

I don't see this at all. In fact, may top clubs in Europe bring in Chinese players to give their players exposure and to help their rankings. If China didn't do such a good job of keeping its prime talent and the ITTF didn't have regulations that prevented people from playing the main ITTF...

The Indians and many other former British colonies are worse than Ian Marshall in their use of elaborate English words. Americans are noted for their simplicity given the success of Hemingway and the advice of William Strunk and EB White in the often advocated "Elements of Style", which made...

But that is the point - what do you expect to happen beyond players in the same club getting together or training camps at the old Schlager Academy? The real problem is not the lack of the players getting together, it is that there aren't 20 Hugo Calderanos out there. Most of the top...

What makes you think they don't or that if they do it will make a huge difference? Just looking at the constitution of clubs in Europe tells a different story.

He doesn't have Ma Long or Xu Xin to push him in training.

I think the first two games started with FZD letting Hugo play table tennis. The difference between both players is that FZD knows what it is like to play Ma Long on a regular basis and when the matches got tight, he basically played Calderano like Ma Long used to play FZD. With Calderano, the...

Listen, raineverever annoys me with her Ma Long fandom and ZJK derision as much as anyone else, but come on, Ma Long's struggles need to be put in perspective - he is the greatest player of all time (to me), and I felt this way in 2012 before he had won anything and I am happy he wasn't forever...

Congrats, David. Well done.

And this is also Fan's weakness as well. He just chiquitas those ball too or short pushes them when it feels awkward. He has worked a lot on his forehand flick but rarely ever uses it.

Yeah, that's my point. Calderano is just like FZD 3 years ago in some ways. I am sure many coaches prefer that problem to the alternatives.

It takes one to know one.

You need to live in a country where they try to speak the Queen's English.

A trip down memory lane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5MhG8Ep7O4

Yeah, in that he played against Egypt.

Obviously I meant 2010. But in any case it is moot. For 2018, there was no trials including the top players. It is by proving yourself over the top players that they have no choice but to play you.

In Olympics, there is usually a standby 4th team player that is taken and holds the reserve position on the team. And often the 3rd player taken on the team is usually the 4th player from the prior Olympics. The 2009 WTTTC was special in that there was a complete selection event and that event...

Yes but usually the players who win internal qualifiers just watch on their first occasion while the others play. If they show up a second time then they get to play. That is the usual CNT way for bringing in new players. Lin will play at WTTTC.

FZD is the most consistent power player in the world. The question is whether Calderano can take it as well as he gives it as he has been beating the spinners so far.

So much raw power...