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I'm not exactly sure why - it would honestly take him less than a year to really train up thick legs if he so wanted to... just squat and deadlift heavy consistently + eat enough protein. Not that difficult.... he looks like he can't even squat 50kg at the moment....

It's because his legs failed him at the 5th set... it was clear that his legs got a lot slower and less explosive after a few brilliant topspins to lead 4-1 in the 5th set and then losing 7 straight points after that. You could see that he was starting to make topspins with his arm and there are...

Anyone that battled their way to the CNT are not snowflakes...

Lol it's not just boosting but also illegally treated pips + illegal serves that are never called!

LYJ - for all his amazing skills is just not physically strong enough. Does he even squat and deadlift in the gym?! Against most players that skill superiority is sufficient especially on the BH, but against very solid players like LJK you really need that extra oomph in shot quality and...

Felix lost really bad in the serve/receive battle - it almost seemed like WCQ was the penholder - aggressively controlling short and loopkilling all the long balls. Shakehand is naturally better at the rally and BH so in order to win, the penholder has to compensate by being better at the...

It'll basically be Sun Yingsha + Wang Manyu in the Olympic singles imo. There's no one else better than them at the moment.

Having a coach is much better, but beware of bad coaches. I saw a coach over here who pretty much plays with arm only and his students all spent years and still remain at a very low level because they do not know how to use the body. None of his students can beat me despite probably spending...

It's not over the table though it is close - I viewed many slowmos. The main thing he does is that the ball passes behind his ear instead of in front of his eyes on the way down. This makes a lot of the path hidden (illegally), and then you get a tiny glimpse of the ball when it gets contacted...

Yes, that works too. In fact if you use really old worn sheets of rubber they can behave like anti lol... If you're not looping with massive topspin with a strong BH, the modern tensors are indeed a liability imo.

A lot of pros like Harimoto and even the Lebruns use it quite well too (Pechpong did share this some time ago). After a deep push usually your training is to immediately drop back to get enough space and time to deal with the incoming loop. But if it suddenly gets re-pushed short to your FH...

There's actually a high level technique where you can re-push short off a long push. The ball is usually a bit higher but because you're so out of position it's not easy to get into position to flick kill it. My practice partner uses this a lot (re-push short to my short FH) when he doesnt think...

Can only agree with 2,4. Especially 4 - the spinny loop actually has the highest spin forgiveness where you can still land the shot even if you misread the spin. So it is always better to loop unless you're so badly out of position that you're forced to push. As I am a chiquita player I actually...

This is true, but Ma Long didn't have much of a chiquita and still did very well. Chiquita is not always the answer to everything although it is indeed a game changing stroke for BH dominant players.

Most probably it's because there's a lot of illegal hidden no toss serves where he plays....

Played again after almost a week. My ball feeling pretty much went down the drain especially serve/receive but somehow still played well. I figured out a way to really punish fast quality pendulum serves down the line to my wide FH even when I'm completely caught off guard. Previously I can only...

Yes exactly - the availability issue has to get fixed first and some manufacturer needs to take a risk and spearlaunch it (similar to what Stiga did with the Cybershape).

Yes it is strange but this is how the rules are written. Unfortunately almost none of the umpires actually enforce the rule.

WCQ doesn't have a big head lol, if anything Liang Jingkun is the one with a big head... and he's not hiding the serve remotely close to WCQ levels. So the issue is that, he deliberately throws the ball in a way that it goes behind his head which is in fact a lot harder to do. I tried doing...

Pity Fan Zhendong who plays way too fair :(