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How old is he? Amazing that he could quit and come back.

And what makes you think I didn't? I know your boy since he came to the US Open in 2014. He has improved his attacking a lot - he always had great blocking game. And Steffen Mengel's kicking of the table at the end should be legendary - he actually moved the table with that kick.

Fan is playing people. Read the headlines!

Quadri Aruna!

Lol.. promoting your countryman with stealth... he played well.

You should either PM Suga D to speak honestly about the offer or just say that you accept or decline it without much comment. You are too new to table tennis to be acting like offers to get more experience with things should be turned down. I played with a year old sheet of Tenergy for most...

Archo, Higher level is acquired over a lot of matches. A specific match up or a specific problem with a specific strategy or shot or serve is about the player. For example, I am relatively weak against slow heavy topspin. I am also relatively weak at returning and reading heavy spin. That...

It's fine by me too. Level of play matters when making these statements. Is it possible to play at a high level using this cheaper stuff? Sure. But does the higher level of play do things to this cheaper stuff that most people who play at that level will find value in the more expensive...

The real problem is that you haven't used the rubbers yet and are speaking about them. I actually think you are right, and that Tenergy can reward lots of suboptimal technique when looping but you can't defend that position when you haven't used the rubbers before. Most of the players writing...

You obviously haven't read enough of his stuff to ignore him.

Here is Larry Hodges on the topic of serving combinations: http://www.tabletenniscoaching.com/node/2028

Sometimes, an opponent cannot return a serve. Some people fail to see that and want to be versatile. If an opponent can't return a serve, use it until they start returning it. If they do, they will usually be giving you something you can exploit if you have a serving combo designed take...

Light backspin and topspin will be attacked with the same motion by better players with high levels of success because most players will overpower such spins. The one thing that helps if you serve light spin is keeping the ball very low but that then means you have to be ready to rally...

OSPH said it best - both are important, though either in isolation can be effective at lower levels, the first requiring strong rally game and the second requiring an extremely good third ball game. The higher the level of opponent though, the higher the level of spin they can control and...

A lot of stuff also depends on the heaviness of the backspin and how similar the serves look. DerEchte has a really nasty combination of similar looking serves that are all heavier than they seem to be. I still can't read his topspin serve for the life of me and you can see it in my matches...

It really depends on the opponent's ability to read and adapt. What I will say is that backspin and no spin variations are just fundamentally hard to read unless you see the contact and take a good look at the ball. At the lower levels, if you have a decent backspin serve, most people will at...

I agree with Baal's conclusion but he is ignoring a lot of important and relevant evidence on the way to it. I also think that people who believe the final was fixed can reasonably believe it without incident, even if they are wrong. Was this match fixed?

Spinny serves are very good and important, but strategy and deception are even more important. What you use the spinny serve, especially if short, to do is to establish a few things. For example, in a match I didn't record today, I established my heavy backspin serve to the backhand. Then...

I could have told you that Boogar. USATT 2000+ is easily in your future if you stick with it. You just need to continue to get the right instruction.

Baal, you mean that there is no good reason for people to believe that the CNT fixes matches? Interesting...