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Dude that's pretty much all the possibilities lol

Maybe this is good for marketing the event to gamblers? Lol...you never know what WTT is up to!

Short push is about technique really - once you know how to do it you can short push with anything you want. The biggest problem is actually judgment of the spin and placement of the serve, and good servers will make your life hell trying to do it. Good receivers watch the ball trajectory to...

I always activate the sponge regardless. Thin brush chiquitas are way too error prone for me...

Yes, serve and receive is the no.1 most important issue in table tennis. This is exactly why Wang Chuqin is so dominant now even though he is way less solid at the rally compared to Fan Zhendong or even Ma Long tbh. I tend to use a lot of receive methods which are more error tolerant (for eg...

Not just that but also arguably the best FH loopkill... tbh he really got bullied by short sidetopspin serves later on which are the best serves for LP to push short with...

Yeah my regular practice partner is the very strong LP/inverted penholder - pretty much not even the coaches who coach can beat him. I played with a slightly weaker LP/inverted penholder than him and almost lost even... I can only win when my serve receive is really on point. It's not like I...

Yeah I think I'm a bit burnt out and need to rediscover the joy of playing... the best shot I played yesterday was a 2 bounce get off a net clip shot (almost a roller which would make it the level of Fan Zhendong's shot against Simon Gauzy). Otherwise most shots are like deja vu... I feel like...

Haven't played in a while and I feel like I deteriorated quite a bit lol. I'm just using all sorts of variation and tricks to win, but am just not consistent enough in terms of getting the last 20% in - it's like death by a thousand cuts, a mistake here, a mistake there, and I'm falling victim...

It's funny if they use world ranking - that thing is an unstable positive feedback loop. The more a player is sent into international competitions- the higher the world rank. Now these rules state that the higher the ranking, the more a player will be sent to international competitions? What...

Head heavy blades destroy my wrist and forearm lol, just because I do a lot of chiquita and aggressive spinny BHs. Also I get a lot less spin from the cybershape than the viscaria because it's not so streamlined, I get less racket head acceleration and speed from the cybershape, with the same...

He is one of the greatest tennis players, of course he knows a thing or two about spin and its effects 🤣 I can see him adjusting to different spins and placements already. but another thing is that his racket appears to be quite spin insensitive which always helps.

Mental strength matters but only when the skills are good. You can have all the mental strength in the world, but if you don't have the skills, you're still a nobody.... Same with Lin Gaoyuan - a lot of ppl criticise his mentality but really it's his stroke structure that lets him down at...

Nah, it's nothing to do with mental strength, its just that his short game and service skills aren't up there yet. WCQ as a shakehander has way more advanced serve/receive compared to Xue Fei.... who gains almost no easy 3rd balls from his serve/receive and has to work hard for every point...

Aura doesn't matter if you don't have the skills to win games....and win games Lin Shidong does! All of the past CNT top players have shown huge promise at a young age, taking down the scalps of many top players though not necessarily winning tournaments. They all also show significant...

You don't need body language or energy or whatever other stuff to win, you just need to win lol, and Lin Shidong definitely has that special sauce. Imo a lot of ppl said the same thing about Ma Long (shy, introverted personality), and he ended up surpassing ZJK. Winning is winning...

Imo it's clearly Lin Shidong. Guy has the speed and explosiveness to match, just needs more experience. Xiang Peng is not up to Lin Shidong standards as his BH game (extremely crucial for the modern game) is simply inferior to Lin Shidong and even worse than many of the Japanese pros. I think...

T05 is way worse than D05 in serve return - everyone talks about looping or blocking but really - serve return is the stuff that wins matches.

Yes you still can, and it can be highly effective still - you can see for eg Ni Xia Lian, Indian women's team, Kyoka Idesewa, etc... On the men's side unfortunately there's only Luka who has imo a suboptimal game, but imo it's because no one has produced the ideal player (twiddling inverted+LP...

Contrary to popular opinion here, you can attack with LP, and actively do a lot of things, change up the spin and placement. There's no need to play defence with LPs, and in fact I view pure LP defence as more of an inferior and boring playstyle. For eg Deng Yaping one of the greatest of all...