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At least, he will play a versatile opponent with a coach in the final. Drinkhall's one-dimensional power approach was a bit too predictable and while his placement got better later in the match, he never got the real variation.

Drinkhall lost badly to Samsonov in T2. Just about every T2 result has been reversed here. This will be interesting.

Like I said, Mizutani is a chump. He really should do better. The way he faded in the last game vs Cho said a lot.

Mizutani is a chump.

I kid you not, there is a cho monster who sounds a lot like Harimoto at the US Nationals.

There is shoulder rotation, it is subtle, and it is not used for power - just for extra racket head acceleration for shaping the ball and producing spin. But there are other larger body parts for creating similar effects, that is why you see table tennis players contorting their abs to cover...

Yes, but again, blade construction can modify that with other features of the blade.

I suspect that they are linked but the way the blade feels in the hand is what I mean when I am speaking of thickness. Because of composites, you can get a Timo Boll T5000 which is as thin as a regular under 6mm blade but which has an OFF+ speed. You can also get a thicker blade which is all...

Yes, but there is a slight skepticism in his post which I think doesn't appreciate fully the direction the world is headed in. I will give an example. How many of us have bought shirts and gone crazy about getting a precise fit? Well, a former business school classmate designed a system...

It isn't about whether it is good or not - it just decides too often.

The scientific approach works much better than you think it does if you can measure objective physical properties of the blade under fairly standard conditions. In fact, I suspect that with 3 or 4 numbers or at most 10 measurements, you can get bout 90-95% predictability about how well a blade...

Proof doesn't work the way you think it does, but there is no point debating it. There is a lot of evidence that the TT demographic is aging and the sport is less popular. Experimenting with the sport is not a bad thing even if this particular experiment might not be the answer. And it is...

I don't think it does.

If it was tied, she would have played a single tie breaker point. Winning that point gave her the game, margin doesn't matter. Kill zone is umpire decision but usually if the game ends in the last two minutes of the session and they can start a new one. It is to avoid stupid scores like 2-0...

Have been training much less, but I will probably need to try to see a doctor again at some point to address chronic injuries and reevaluate the possibilities. Just too lazy procrastinating... Still playing well. Gone to a very neutral grip and playing decently. IT is really funny how grip...

I think he misses the impact of economic competition on the ability of sports to survive. If he took it more seriously, he would understand why making some modifications to entertainment and commercialization are extremely important.

You are making a lot of assumptions about TT in China. Who has more fans, Yao Ming or Ma Long? Lebron James or Ma Long? Tiger Woods or Ma Long? When you pose the question that way, then it isn't too unbelievable that Simone Biles might have more fans than Ma Long. Not wrong or right, just...

You just don't follow the Olympics generally. You would probably have never heard of Ma Long either if you were not a TT fan.

This format even for singles matches has some potential to me.

His point is still valid.