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Yep, real balls are unpredictable and can be slow/fast and placed awkwardly, so in general less is more in terms of arm movement and the faster you can get to your backswing position the more time you have to observe the ball and your opponent. It actually applies to all strokes (BH,FH...

Anyone knows how did Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu get put into the same half?!

The unfortunate thing for both of them is that the winner will in all likelihood face Ma Long who's in tremendous form now. But even reaching the semis is a very good accomplishment.

It'll probably be whoever gets the 1st attack in more because both their 1st attacks are killer. Wouldn't be surprised if it's very close this time - Quadri is moving very well this tournament.

I've always wondered, does Hugo hit harder on the FH or does Aruna hit harder? It'll be interesting to have some numbers from a Hawkeye system. I'm pretty sure these 2 guys are close to the top in terms of power levels.

Wow Aruna playing like peak Ryu Seung Min now (y) come on!

Lin Gaoyuan survived a choke scare in the 5th game where he nearly allowed the comeback...

Fan Zhendong is not in great form recently, at least not compared to ML, like what you said he might even lose to LJK first or even someone else...

Low trajectory no spin serves can be quite killer because it's hard to produce a nasty receive off them - because of the lack of spin to borrow on the pushes. With sidespin serves one can go against the spin or with the spin, and you can easily vary between producing sidetop or sideunder for the...

I somehow think that pure underspin/no spin serves (no sidespin) suits your game more as it simplifies the spin on the receive. It seems that the sidespin hurts you more than it helps you especially in the hands of a skilled receiver. Attacking with your strong FH loop off a no spin serve seems...

There's only 1 player that can threaten Ma Long these days imo and it's Wang Chuqin...

Nah, in the end the shot quality from WCQ and SYS proved to be too much...

I'm watching it, the Koreans have a real chance here.

Is it just me or Qian Tianyi has way too slender legs for someone on the CNT? How did she get away from weight training of the legs compared to her peers.... All of the other top CNT players be it men or women all have incredibly strong lower body strength. Heck even Lin Gaoyuan is sporting...

It's very hard to remain unbeaten in this best of 5 format - there's simply not enough games to adjust to new surprising stuff especially when you haven't seen it before for eg a weird af serve which you can't read.

You can't improve if all you're doing is trying to extract errors from your opponents - the good players always adjust and eventually they stop missing and then the other person will be in trouble. So you should play against the 1700s the same way you play the 2100s - looping and attacking...

I think you would benefit a lot practising like this for the BH. Especially in game situations you need to learn how to loop with a 10% stroke similar to this, and then you can put in a lot of power once you have an opportunity.

You can do a lot of shadow training in front of a mirror to fix a lot of these issues - it's how I fix strokes most of the time. Tbh the hip usage and weight transfer is also absent in the BH robot training, and the elbow issue is also present during the FH robot training - you have quite good...

Agreed, I'll be really surprised if Lin Shidong beats Ma Long.... Harimoto probably has more of a chance beating Ma Long than Lin Shidong.

With FH and BH loops - FH is significantly better than BH because you use weight transfer well so your feet automatically wants to find a good position, whereas with BH that action is largely missing especially the hip rotation and weight transfer, and the use of the centre of gravity to control...