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I agree think it's a bit too early for Miwa - it's like feeding sheep to wolves. Miu Hirano definitely had a better chance against both Sun Yingsha and Chen Meng imo. Even if Wang Manyu was playing it would be the same conclusion. I think they wanted to give CNT a surprise to mess up their...

I mean that the reason why this way of chiquita/loop structure (both strokes being quite similar) is better is due to the defence against fast long serves, because the preparation movement is almost the same which means that you won't get caught by deceptive serve length changes. Against high...

Agree - Hirano is the only one with a win against Sun Yingsha and she wasn't given the opportunity to repeat her feat. Miwa is definitely better suited to be the 3rd player not the 1st.

Tbh Chen Meng just won by serving and receiving better, and all the mind games about the serve placement were just excellent. Miwa had the skills but was tricked left right and centre by Chen Meng's tricky serving. Feels bad man - I think Miwa has all the advanced skills but she really needs...

Yep some of these fast rallies are super exciting and fun to practice. But tbh it's really quite tiring to push my speed limits like that. My practice partner counters and changes directions at crazy speeds so every microsecond savings in stroke efficiency is important. I'm not sure whether it...

There were so many rule changes that were super anti CNT so I don't buy the "CNT having unfair advantages" here. For eg hidden serve ban and pips aspect ratio limit which were directly targeting one of the most successful players (LGL). Or the move to only allow 2 players in Olympic singles and...

Asthma patients are everywhere in the Olympics too... and even tennis (even the greats like Serena Williams are granted a significant amount of therapeutic use exemptions (aka legalised doping) as the organisations are controlled by US and European friendly organisations lol.

Wow what did I miss, how did Felix beat LYJ 3-0?!

LYJ proven himself by winning Frankfurt against 2 very hot top CNT players (Wang Chuqin and Ma Long) imo. I think the threat level against CNT between Harimoto and LYJ are about equal at this point in time...

I don't think anyone on the French team will go past Lin Yun Ju given how hot he is at the moment. So the question is if Kao or Chuang can get the remaining point, which with their fighting spirit I tend to believe that they can upset the French team. Chuang really pulled out a superhuman...

Did a lot of multiball training with close table BH loop + my new close table FH loop that I would classify as more like a close table counterloop which I view as the most advanced continuation to defend against a switch to my FH. I'm getting the hang of it now - basically with footwork there is...

That is Harimoto's specialty, the oppressive close to table BH and he thrives in this. Imo Harimoto's FH showed a lot of improvement here, his FH was able to keep up with his BH in terms of speed and continuity. Unfortunately for him, Wang Chuqin doesn't play that game with him. It's all...

There's 2 main ways to push against sidespin, with the spin (spin continuation) and against the spin. So for eg if an opponent serves pendulum sidebackspin to my BH, the rotation (from my perspective) is clockwise. If my bat (again from my perspective) goes from right to left, it produces...

Yeah this is one of the most annoying shots I face now.... and it's always to the short FH where I can't chiquita it strongly The problem is that I have to be prepared for the long fast return too. On my good days I can just lunge forward and do whatever I want with the short ball (flick, redrop...

So there's a shot that is kinda disgusting to deal with which I haven't had too many solutions against. Usually, a TT adage is that after you go deep long, the returned ball will have to be long too. So on long serves or even a fast long push/flick, that's what I would expect. But recently...

Lol Dan just needed to loop on his BH and not push all those balls and he would be winning this easy peasy. Dan was just trying to create content imo

For me its actually the opposite - BH is the more versatile shot because it can deal with attacking both short and long balls, and because the preparation movement is smaller you can take balls earlier. I had to work very, very hard (and am still doing that) to make my FH movement as fast and...

It's no shame to use pimples and looking at your strokes and how you prefer to play, SP FH + LP BH seems like the deadliest combo. In fact the Indian women team plays almost like you lol. I reckon you would play at least 3 levels higher if you switched, you're not exactly maximising the benefits...

Yes, but the reason why you can't do it is because you don't do the weight transfer + body rotation as the key mechanism of the serve. Its not about moving legs manually - everything is part of that same movement. Getting back to ready position is all about riding that rotational momentum from...

Gozo, if you like to FH smash, the best rubber is something like Rakza PO or Victas Spectol type of short pips. There are OK inverted rubbers for smashing but none of them even come close to the level of short pips when it comes to smashing. You can see how effective they are in the recent...