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Yes. I am not sure he ever quite had it - he is really a great front runner, but the real issue is how he faces adversity. If you watch the LJK match, he was up 7-1 in the first game and lost that 10-12. After that, he lost the next game, and suddenly, both LGL and QZJ had to coach him.

If you really believe that, you really need to see how the Chinese cheer their players on tour. Just not as many.

Some people use Tenergy for years before replacing it - just keep it clean. No rush. The loops look good. Yes, Tenergy kinda loops for you, but that is the whole point isn't it? And you still have to loop to let it loop for you, so don't take too much from yourself. There are lots of ways...

" Congrats. I think I remember this guy, he may be the one that I said has no backhand and that I felt that if you "transitioned him (one ball to the forehand, one ball to the backhand or vice versa since he liked to pivot) he would fall apart. I know that superstition too, and I try to tell...

They are both good blades. The pricing difference is really Butterfly pricing and reputation IMO. Which blade you prefer is a personal thing. I know players who are better than I am who use blades cheaper than mine. You may agree with Butterfly estimation, you may not.

If you like messing around with blades, it is cheaper than buying and messing round with cars, But if you want to improve your game, the question is why? If you answer the question of why, then you can see whether there is any point or not.

This is an interview with Weikert from around the same time that Boll made his 80% of players are cheaters comment. http://www.mytischtennis.de/public/Buntes/7939/weikert---bdquo-die-wm-ist-unzureichend-organisiert-ldquo?seite=1 It shows what I mean when I say that Shahara and Weikert come...

I wish you had a Lexus SUV you didn't like to sell, I would buy it.

And to add insult to injury (or as they say in my country, to rub in salt into the injury), they put Mizutani in the first match to close the deal...

"Clench" your toes might be more precise.

Steve Dainton is from Australasia I believe and is one of the marketing gurus behind TTEX. You can't deny his genius and since he is a legend in the field, surely you should be excited about it. I think we do have decent reasons to expect things to get better under Weikert. He can't...

Okay. Let me put it another way. Nothing you said isn't in the public domain. Most of us would not divulge information that isn't in the public domain. As Baal pointed out, it is usually people who do not understand how vote buying works who parade the addition of more member countries as...

Someone found this old match of mine... thought some of you might find it interesting in case you assume I was a looping junior. I am going back to the knee braces again - I wish I was as physically well as I was back then - I thought it was bad back then but I didn't really know how bad it...

That's quite unlikely but in any case, your view is noted.

It is very important to be able to tell when your serve is not good enough. That lets you prepare in advance for the appropriate response. Usually, it is easy to be ready for the low level responses but you always need to have an idea of how well your serve is truly limiting the opponent's...

Duplicates is not the same thing as doubles. It is unlikely that Boll and Dima can be on the same draw since they are seeded 6 and 8 I believe.

Many of you have probably seen this video or a similar video before about serve placement - I actually first learned this from Brian Pace and it applies to all shots, but most easily to serve and serve return. When you understand how ball placement limits the opponent's options, you develop a...

This is funny, I bought this one on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-7100-Petr-Korbel-FL-Blade/dp/B000AS886A It was actually $50 with free shipping and took a month to arrive and weighed 98g. I thought the price maybe had an impact on the quality and ordered from our local...

You can't contain people with serves if you play them all the time, eventually they figure out what you do, so you have to keep innovating or else you will lose your serve edge. To me, if you can limit the return of the opponent and get somethimg predictably attackable because of the quality of...

Ideally, you do them unconsciously with your training. Or most ideally, you select a strategy before the point starts as a general guide, but just subconsciously adapt to whatever the opponent throws at you. It's not as easy as it sounds, and its why the people who start young and put in lots...