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It's a comment made by someone who hasn't played a full match with the supposedly better equipment. Freitas, Dima and Boll have said similar things. Only Dima seriously tried it for a short period. Remember what happened? The biggest separator of China is the effort their players are...

Yeah. Usually, I ignored him at mytt. But I know he will inevitably get banned here as well. I guess people do different things for fun and trolling is unfortunately one of them.

The game is more diverse and has the old game as a subset. Sure it is a matter of taste. But not when you go on forums where fans of the new game dominate and start repeatedly mocking or insulting the modem game and its proponents. Like I said, he is free to find fellow company and discuss...

I know Berndtmann across a few forums. He simply believes that table tennis should have remained the way it was before sponge, gluing, fast rubbers and the Japanese revolution transformed it. If you look at the video Carl linked to, the caveman in it is actually based on him. If you think his...

Don't feed the trolls.

Didn't make me laugh - I am not here to have people insult my sport repeatedly. They would be better off finding a hardbat forum which would support their rudeness since they would be amongst friends.

The #1 spot was actually Zhu Yuling. But on that team, it hardly makes a difference, it probably depended more on who asked to play and the fact that they didn't want to risk anything. And no matter how good LSW is playing (after all, didn't she win Marvellous 12 with an undefeated record)...

Yes, but that does not mean she has to play the 3rd match, which is what Atas was commenting on.

Accessibility is not the biggest reason, what the Chinese do is not magic. But if you believe it is, that is okay. It's not the kind of thing you get convinced of by just talking about it, there are many good tacky rubbers to play with if you really want to play with them and boosting rubbers...

In the context of an amateur experimenting, sure. In the context of a pro who is trying to play his very best and enhance his weapons first and foremost and limit his weaknesses, while not losing to people who are playing at a high level and at their best, not so much. Radical reinvention...

They want to leave Gerell off the squad? I thought the squad would obviously be Karlsson, Larsson, Gerell, Kallberg and Moregardh.

Doesn't his relative ranking within the team speak for itself? Ueda or Oshima is not a difference maker and I suspect that Oshima doesn't pair well with Niwa in doubles which is what he really needs to do. Ueda is the more sophisticated singles player.

Samsonov has used Grip S before. The highest level Euro player I know that consistently uses a tacky rubber on the forehand is this guy. He is not as high level as he used to be. Also, I feel that more players dabbled in tacky rubbers during the speed glue era because that was a huge...

Those sports were invented in America so the logic was clear even if currently antiquated.

You need to be coached to use them from an early age to fully adjust to their advantages and disadvantages - same with Euro rubbers but the advantages of Euro rubbers show up more naturally in rally shots at the intermediate level. Pros tune a lot of their instincts to their equipment and...

That could be the best match of 2018 and will likely be the best match that doesn't have s CNT upset.

Amen. I was going to post I like p3 curl as the edge tape of my Viscaria.

How does he protect the ranking by not playing? Please share. The guy didn't want to give his all in a losing cause and expose tactics that will be valuable in more important matches.

Yeah. I was watching a recent French league match highlight reel with Liam and Mattenet. And both players were on but Liam was just punishing Mattenet. And I just realized that it was suicidal to be a backhand player vs Liam. I thought it was just that one match but Liam just showed it...

He is not their main weapon - they are fielding their best doubles team and leaving Robinot to play singles. So you can consider Lebesson their main weapon playing in the spots where he is most effective. It counts the same whether your main weapon is in doubles or singles as long as he wins...