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Ever since Xi Jinping (a football/soccer lover) assumed power in late 2012, to be specific. I remember there was a thread over at Chinese forum Table Tennis Homeland back around that time that table tennis was dropped from the top 10 in investment. Overall, the quality of life for the majority...

8 seeds for a main draw of 32. In that case, SXY (final), QTY/HZJ (SF at the earliest), KNY/Yokoi/WXT/Sato (QF at the earliest). There are also SXN, Ojio, Akae who are good at playing choppers. Will see how many booby traps Idesawa can remove... Also chopper Chang Li Sian of MAS... Seeds...

Booster is essentially plasticizer, most commonly based on paraffin oil. Butterfly tried whatever oil they could get their hands on during the development of Tenergy, including edible oil.

A quick look into what little history of you on TTD confirms your first post in this thread applies to yourself.

WTT Series (GS, CF, CS, SCT and CT) and Feeder Series (FEE) are separate. The top-ranked players should play WTT Series only. WTTC and World Cup were supposed to be killed off, with the WTTTC left behind (potentially). China said no without actually saying it and reinstated World Cup and...

You're so new (and young in the world of politics). Mizutani and Boll openly contested the ITTF for turning a blind eye to rampant boosting. Mizutani protested by boycotting ITTF events and posted his own "findings" on his blog (see 2012/11/22 below). Both were losing left and right for...

That's where Sharara instilled so much hate. His response was that there was never a "VOC ban" but rather a "VOC limit". Same with booster, no "booster ban" but rather "no post-factory boosting". Yet with the 40+ ball, Sharara actually used "a worldwide ban of celluloid" as the pretext...

To understand the whole reason behind the hate, you gotta know the history behind it. Otherwise, it's just pure speculation.

You could dig deeper than that. In the old days, ITTF events had more seeds (1/4 (32) to 1/2 (64) for main draw of WTTC) and separation by association. Those two factors created an "almost impenetrable barrier" that made it much harder to break through by pure luck of the draw. WTT events...

For a start, Harimoto was not convinced by Moregard in the Butterfly interview after Paris 2024, that he was inconsistent and his WTT results do reflect that. Besides the draw, Moregard is lucky Europe Smash 2025 was held in Sweden and China was not there in full force (and those present there...

He was lucky to have met WCQ early, as Persson said in the TTDCast WCQ would've won if they met in the later round, not unlike Harimoto meeting Togami early at WTTC 2025. Another 2 factors are that WCQ had his racket broken and it's said his shoulder was acting up after XD F and MS R64...

A good starting point if you really want to post your naive worldview on this. See Adham Sharara's personal stance for yourself. Many comments were moderated so you won't get the full picture but it was nasty back then. Sharara was more concerned about the politically-correct image of table...

That's an issue of training philosophy. Like the Henan province head coach Wang Chao pointed out in a Stiga VTT video from 2023, the new generation of CNT players is behind on serve-n-attack and tends to play safe. This final also shows Gauzy did very well but came up short.

MS F LSD (1) 3-4 Moregard (6) (-8, 8, -10, -8, 4, 11, -9) G1 75, 811. 1 point only for LSD after missing that popup. Both were tense. G3 84, 89, 99, 910, 1010, 1012. Similar to G1. Moregard started to feel pressure after LSD got used to his pace and serve-n-attack. His winning percentage...

You must be young to have missed the good old times when Adham Sharara joined the forums, namely MyTT and OOAK, and answered various questions and got drawn into the ensuing debates. Some folks got into the philosophical aspect of life and what it meant to be an abiding citizen in a civil...

Moregard looks ahead to the final against LSD. 莫雷加德展望决赛对阵林诗栋…… https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV19keLzBE3K https://www.miguvideo.com/p/detail/957542532

Hmm, at this point, regardless of dominance or not, I found myself more interested in PPA Tour Asia Hong Kong Open 2025 than Europe Smash 2025 yesterday (WCT/Baldwin reaching the MD final was good enough) that I decided to go visit the brand-new Kai Tak Sports Park to see what it's really all...

WTT is getting praised? (Tony must be fuming) Hate to say it, but Germany and Japan have unfortunately chosen to be on the wrong side of history again.

Even as impressive as FZD, he stumbled in a few relatively big matches early on, e.g. Chen Feng and Li Hu of Singapore in MT of Asian Games 2014 when FZD was just 17 years and 8 months old, and ZJK and ML were there...

Because many people hate Sharara for putting table tennis in this situation in the push for sustainability, which ironically, was led by the hypocritical Western world (14% of world population taking 50% quota of future carbon emissions (1 ton of C = 3.67 tons of CO2) while conveniently ignoring...