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Call me crazy, it won't be the first time and definitely not the last, but I think the CNT women's team viewed their match against the USA men's team in the spirit of friendship and not trying to be embarrassing. I also seem to remember Xu Xin being involved in a doubles match against team USA...

One of my friends was on the CNT and ranked in the top 5 in the world. She said the men could give the top women around 7 points in a game to 21 and still win without taking it too seriously. Another friend was on the Army Team in China and said Liu GuoLiang could beat the entire women's team...

Believe it or not, some people on a province team or even the CNT B team have to pay to be on the team. They don't make any money. If they do well in tournaments or get tournament appearance fees, but usually the better players take up a lot of the potential payout.

I guess this is a lesson to coaches all around the world: do not upset Harimoto or show disrespect either purposefully or inadvertently. He played out of his mind in the finals.

I find it funny that Bobrow implied something to the effect that Kanak took 17 months off or however long his suspension was. Certainly he wasn't allowed to play in any competitions but obviously he was still training 8 hours a day. With that being said, Kanak keeps improving and playing...

Well according to him, yes. Try not to show it or do anything silly, but it is ok to be really annoyed after playing poorly.

One of my professional player friends once said that if you aren't extremely mad after every practice and each loss, then you have given up the fight to try to improve. Also: some serves work great against one player and are useless against others. This even happens at the pro level. If...

I think Kallberg recently got married.

The legendary hard hitting table tennis star Heavyspin went from 2100ish to 2400ish by switching to a heavy bat. Maybe he will comment on this thread about how it helped him improve.

Do not go abroad unless your parents go with you. I will not go into why but the adults on the forum can guess why. Some clubs in Germany are bad news. Some places in China are bad news. I don't mean bad training either. Once you are 15, send me a DM and I can suggest some places but...

What level of professional? And from what country? Many top 10 players from various countries don't make any money outside of coaching locally. If they want to play internationally, it is like setting money on fire. Even if they want to play in their own country, it is like setting money on...

Why don't manufacturers just release these super versions of the rubber for sale? They probably cost a lot more to produce and have much higher quality control. Also for some teams the rubbers are finely tuned directly for the individual athlete. But if you want to believe the top...

The service rules need to be completely rethought and rewritten. For example the ball has to be visible to the receiver from the start of the toss until the contact of the ball with the racket. I always ask "What if the receiver turns his back to the table to stands to the extreme side of the...

Yes the rubbers are very different. I once got some H3 "national" from someone associated with the CNT and it was much better than what is normally available.

I thought calling fault was ridiculous. If you gave me 5 minutes, I could find 5 other people playing in the same tournament whose serves are illegal yet nothing is done about it. Umpires are picky about some players and let other players get away with highway robbery. This is one of the...

If I were your coach, I would work on your technique and not your fitness. Furthermore if you didn't play for six months, I would wonder how committed you are to going from whatever your level is to whatever level you want to go to. I would also comment that any time in the gym is wasted and...

Also the level in some of these Chinese events are insane. You would need to be in the upper upper tier of Euro players to go to these events and have a chance of winning. There are a lot of ex-CNT players and people who refused to join the CNT for whatever reason, who do well in these events...

You will not like this comment, but you just need to play A LOT MORE. If you play for hours and hours, you will eventually figure out ways for your body to apply power to the ball and your hand feeling and instinct will allow you to make the shot more often. However, that is not what you want...

I stand corrected. I have friends in mainland China making 150k a year playing locally and in the super league. In America coaching is the way to go for pure profit. Still the people I know making money in China are ridiculously good players. I know many "reasonably" good players making 6...

If your home organization/country doesn't foot the bill for WTT events, you better have a large fortune to finance yourself with the goal of ending up with a small fortune. The easiest way to earn a living from table tennis is through coaching unfortunately.