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http://www.jtta.or.jp/Portals/0/images/player/ranking/ITTF_World%20Ranking_2018.pdf

They want to go to a tennis system where you have to play on the tour to get ranking points. The consequences will be interesting. Very different from the current system where you have a rating which goes up and down with match play but stays the same if you don't play tournaments.

This is an interesting set of statements, since 1) fandom is not only about winning per se 2) ML does have crazy fans, and had them despite not having won any majors even 7 years ago 3) Both ML and WH are legends. 4) WH lost to a foreigner in the finals, which explains the likely exaggerated...

BTW, I have beaten many players who are faster, train more and are healthier than I am. I sometimes beat them simply because I have better serves, other times because I read spin better. Table tennis is more complicated than you are pointing out, though I know many people that like to make...

IMO, serving long on match point should generally be avoided. But I an understand the seduction but as you face better players, they show you why pretty quickly.

But I thought you said Waldner was the GOAT. You didn't speak about eras or split players into eras. Or are you now saying that Waldner was the greatest of his era?

I don't know why one should get hyped about a serve when you have no clue what the receiver is seeing.

Then Viktor Barna is the greatest player of all time because he has more titles. End of discussion.

This is all your opinion. It's like the people who say that Bill Russell is the greatest ever because he has 11 NBA championships. Times have changed and if you want to use criteria from the stone age to evaluate the current landscape, sure. Many people considered Ma Long the best player in...

I think an Ovtcharov-Tokic game was 32-34 or something like that. I know someone who played 32-30. None of this in doubles though.

I haven't played league in over a month but I figured that if I Want to play the PA states, now is as good a time as ever, more so since I played a tournament on Saturday last week. I was going to play last Tuesday, but we were snowed out. I got there for my matches about 20 minutes late, and...

If you record your serves from the POV of the receiver, which is important to do, the key is to look for the heaviest deceptive motion you can disguise and sell as things other than heavy underspin. For each individual, with their wrist speed and flexibility, that may vary. Practicing...

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He wasn't using Hurricane then... :D

Again, the question remains the same - you think he wasn't doing extensive work to fix his backhand before the equipment change? This is what people who are taking your position are continuing to ignore.

Please fix!

You made it sound like people who actually believed that Ma Long's backhand improved after changing rubber, including Ma Long himself, were simply buying into a commercial pitch. It's almost like you were willing to ignore that Ma Long had been working on his backhand for years. So I believe...

Why did Dima try to change from a perfectly working T05 to an H3 on the forehand?

Which did you do, bribe Austin or kidnap his dog? Well played.:p

And you think that before that, he didn't know his weakness was his backhand and he was drinking lemonade in the shade? His backhand was a good backhand. He had short stroke issues so he needed to make it better for close to the table rallying (Timo Boll still has similar issues). I initially...