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I think "Tchoing" insincerely, or anything done insincerely, unless rehearsed makes one feel like an idiot. So do many things, from pre-point routines, to after point routines, to wiping the table in between points etc. These are all things that can mess up your game when you do them until you...

Verbal expression is something I tend to do when challenged by my opponent or playing in hostile environments (in a club by myself where my opponent is the home player, on the road by myself when the opponent has a cheering section). I am generally silent when I play unless when celebrating...

Largely irrelevant to the question of whether someone plays better or worse in the face of vocal challenge from their opponent by being silent or by increasing their arousal level.

Everyone has an opinion. But some world class players and coaches do share my opinion, so as much as it might just be an opinion, I think there is something to be said for it. Though of course, they have rectums as well. And in my experience competing, I have seen the effects of players who...

That is the same letter that rainneverever already posted. Kinda pathetic but understandable.

What are the contents of the letter?

This has always been true, it is just that in this specific case, the issue you speak of is one that you strongly support the protester. OF course such decisions should have repercussions. As many people pointed out, there were many ways to support or protest. Your choice will have...

None of this is relevant to the contexts and the people that I am talking about. Moreover, I don't know anyone who plays better when the audience is cheering against him mostly by being serene. At the very worst, they get their coach or someone else to cheer for them more loudly. PEople...

Just because you protest and people don't agree with you and don't want to work with you doesn't mean your protest was squashed.

Why is the expression purely artificial? I think people feel guilty to do so because they think it is artificial. Your opponent is celebrating the vast majority of your errors. Can't you at least celebrate your own good play? If you don't want to because your opponent is a kid who is 13 who...

That was a foregone conclusion. And in a sense, having read aspects of the rationale for what is happening, as long as the top 3 aren't too severely punished, O have always had issues with the degree of power consolidation in the CNT and would like to see whether an alternate model could...

Losing from 5-1 and 8-1 up in consecutive sets is not easy. I think Timo has a level and quality of serve return that Harimoto has not see yet. You could see that Harimoto lost his confidence and regressed to his old flat forehand in some critical moments when Boll pinned him in the middle...

Bobrow said Han Ying's husband.

They are best friends and came up through CNT B team together. Their matches are usually like that.

That would be very unfortunate but I don't think in terms of the people that the players deal with on a daily basis that they felt they had a real choice. It would be very sad if this resulted in something more than straightforward bans and LGL diplomacy.

Lots of players using the HL5, including the Japanese. I wonder how I could have had one and traded it, LOL. The Carbonados in the 0 and 200 range are pretty popular. Looks like Stiga did something useful. Stiga is mostly dead to me.

I think it just says a lot about the team and how well bonded they are. This is psychology 101, you can't go up against people who are used to fighting outsiders together and not get a bonded opposition. There is also likely an element of unfairness that is emboldening the players and the hope...

It's in the Saive podcast, so any hearsay is from the horse's mouth. Saive is comfortably up 3-1 on Chen Qi. Unfortunately, LGL, who had just finished coaching another match, shows up to coach his guy. The match changes momentum and Saive loses 3-4.

Come on, unless Ma Long broke his back, you think he will withdraw from a match against a foreigner on home soil? I wasn't hundred per cent sure either when I Said "mass protest", but it was a reasonable conclusion. Of course, if Fan had played, I would be apologizing for being a rumor monger now.

Come on, I started it, no need to apologize.