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Just get a box of balls and a ball picker - saves you a lot of time.

That is true that you can hide the racket until just before contact. But hiding the ball makes it such that it is a lot more difficult to track the ball movement as you do lose some useful visual information.

After the recent World Cup - the short answer is no one lol.

No, it was a tactical error. Lin was just doing all unforced errors on trying too fast flat loopkill type shots and not putting enough spin in his shots and Ma Long was just goading him into making more of those. And finally LGY started doubting his strokes, started thin brushing and didn't even...

Yes, those BH serves were a trap. They look so simple - even I was reading the spin on them easily. But they are all placed in hard to attack trajectories and placements. LGY tried to directly chiquita kill those "disrespectful simple serves" and ended up making 1001 mistakes on them because he...

LGY played stupid during the 4th set and after that. It was pretty simple, do a slow spinny chiquita and then play the rallies out, put more spin to ensure consistency. No way Ma Long is stronger in the topspin rally - there was no reason to attempt so many of those loopkills which were only...

This is why this Olympic system of only having 2 singles players from each association is stupid af. Only in TT you have multiple top 10 players not allowed to participate in the Olympics simply due to association limits. Just let 5 players go FFS!

FZD is the 2x reigning WTTC champion and 4x World Cup winner - he will for sure go. WCQ's place is a lot shakier considering that he has 0 major championships under his belt. As seen in today's match between Ma Long and WCQ - big tournaments are different, because players often come in prepared...

If they did that they would have no one to play lol, all of the CNT players had some losses to foreign associations...

Tbh I always felt that WCQ always relied on his hidden serves and once someone really deciphers them, he is nowhere as strong as Ma Long, Zhang Jike or Fan Zhendong in terms of technical ability. He also tends to hit very flat trajectories which are always a liability in big matches. All the...

lol Ma Long is back! WCQ shows his weakness when the opponent doesn't give him easy 3rd balls from his serves and when he can't outright chiquita to get an opportunity ball on the receive.

Ma long finally not serving all those chiquita fodder (aka his normal FH pendulums). Once he drags WCQ out of his comfort zone - WCQ is not all that strong in the rally and overall positioning game.

WMY's opening loops has too much spin quality in them - this is WMY's game and she will overwhelm Miwa's defences if allowed to do so. WMY has a weakness against fast balls to her middle-FH where due to her very wide stance she can't get her body out of the way fast enough for a strong pivot FH...

insane point by Wang Manyu at 8-9 in the sixth and then a few really good hook serves to seal the match which completely fooled Miwa. Miwa really needs to improve her serve reading skills to match her other skills. It's a lot of all these subtle changes in spin which she is not completely...

The down-the-line BH technique is too OP in the women's game. It's as if Tomokazu Harimoto went to play in the women's league.

sometimes she doesn't adjust to spin variations very well, but when she plays her game it's almost a bit OP in the women's game because of how high quality her spin and power is.

Miwa might still win this - she is looking quite good. Such high quality spin and I like her new high toss FH pendulum serve! The short push is also looking really good in terms of technique. A lot of improvement indeed in such a short period, wow... Edit: she indeed won 1 game. 3 more to go. I...

But with a 8-1 lead, even with a 40% accuracy FH loopkill down the line he would have won...

Very weird match. I watched the 5th set and FZD appeared to be cruising with a 8-1 lead and somehow made like 1001 errors with his FH to then lose the set. This is not typical FZD and it seemed like he didn't even want to play on?! The FH loops he made were weak af and placed directly to Lin...

Hard disagree - no one makes it to world top 20 without being extremely good in some areas with their own special weapons.