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Not as simple as switching which side you play to since many lefties have solid backhands as well - it's more about the direction and spin (i.e. their backhands naturally breaking a bit more towards your forehand direction and their forehand breaking more into your backhand direction). It simply...

Sponsored pros get custom hardness and weights, not just the center sheets. So it's a different batch. They also get the stuff pre-release. Zyre 03 is being tested pretty widely now.

Good read. Thanks.

Haven't sent you a PM in months, ever since you PM'd me asking for advice on the FZD ALC and other blades. Nice try.

There is a thread on the home page about this.

Good to know that Timo Boll and Xu Xin are of the same opinion - maybe they need to hop on TTD to realize how clueless they are on this matter.

Interesting tidbit. What's your take on his skills and tactics?

Yep. I have friends who played Franziska and while obviously lower level than the top Chinese, they said he just takes away so many possibilities in the game right off the bat.

Do you know what he did or didn't do to try to cure his injury and be at 100% for the XP match? I'm sure athletes all around the world would be thrilled if all injuries had immediate solutions before match time lol.

[1:05] Timo Boll: "[Lee Sangsu] is one of the most dangerous players on the tour". From 2021, within the 6-year Sims/NetProphet-confirmed period of decline. Too bad Timo didn't get the memo that LSS was past his peak so clearly he couldn't possibly pose any danger anymore in any given match.

It's all relative obviously. Who has a 30% win rate against top Chinese players?

Xu Xin underperformed that match because I said so. No other wins against top Chinese players, in their prime or not, for Gauzy. It's okay though, he was up 1-0 and had game points a few times, actually winning the match doesn't matter! Look, I can do this too!

I'm not entirely sure where we disagree either at this point but you say that he has been on the slide for the last 6 years and in the last 6 years he has beaten a prime FZD and Ma Long, and LGY multiple times who has been a CNT first team mainstay for the last decade or so whether you consider...

I was mistaken - Shinozuka ended up completing the comeback down 0-2 a few weeks ago in Chongqing.

Franziska and Harimoto were the only two that immediately came to mind as having a comparable list of top player wins.

Players who make WR1 as the definition of "tier 1" is a pretty narrow definition of a tier but to each their own. Accepting that definition though, how many non-Chinese have beaten ML twice (and almost a third), FZD, XX twice, and ZJK, all of whom were WR1 players?

Yes my post was referring to him historically but he has clearly a lot of game left in his tank recently. He beat Fan Zhendong just about a year and a half ago. In the last year he's beaten Shinozuka, Franziska, Yuan Licen, Huang Youzheng, Xiang Peng, Kallberg, Ma Long, and LGY twice. Not top...

Who are some of them that say this?

He's beaten Ma Long twice as well as pushed him to the brink at 2021 Tokyo, Zhang Jike, prime FZD once, Xu Xin twice, and maybe others. What are you unsure about?

Even in LGYs prime, Lee Sangsu was never going to be an easy match nor a guaranteed win. LSS is one of the few from the recent generations who has always been a threat to the top Chinese when he's having his day