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It's as written in my last post. You have to figure out the specifics yourself. The folks at my club discussed how Waldner overcame LGL during one dinner in the early 2010s, over a decade after the fact, and that was the conclusion. See the videos. Waldner still missed quite a bit and didn't...

There was a Div B player at my club that I liked to play because he hid his serves, mostly pure backspin and no-spin, which were easy to tell from the bounce even without seeing the contact. There was a visitor that had a really good completely open pendulum serve that was a mix of side-topspin...

I'm held up by other stuff and haven't followed the event as closely. As I posted, Uda had a leg cramp during the T.League playoff final and many of the JNT players came right off the league playoff. I made it clear in the thread for WTT CS Chennai 2025 that many of them were excused. Togami...

HYZ's ranking is still too low to qualify for CS. True to LGL's comment, CNT is giving everyone roughly equal opportunities in the first year. https://www.ittf.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025_14_SEN_MS.html No of events in 2025 including WTT CS Incheon: WR23 XP - 4 WTT WR29 CYY - 5 WTT, 1...

R32 Franziska 3-2 Togami (5, 4, -7, -10, 5) LEH 2-3 Samara (7, -5, -6, 6, -7) KOR was lucky to not meet ROU at Paris 2024.

If anything, Harimoto is the sturdiest after Hirano. In terms of physical gift, Harimoto is in line with Nagasaki and Kihara. It will be harder than Ito had it at Tokyo 2020, like how Paris 2024 was harder for Hayata and Hirano, but at the age of 20, LA 2028 is actually the best time for...

Forget the contact. Just push long with your own force (get good contact) by borrowing the incoming sidespin, disregarding the topspin or backspin element. When faced with that, the most important thing is not to hesitate and just "touch" the ball. That's how Waldner and Persson checkmated...

That is a weird metric to use to gauge the 2 pairs. As much as I don't regard Matsushima highly, his pairing with Harimoto has reached the XD F at SGP GS 2025 (put up a fight against LSS/KM) and beat 2 CNT pairs to win WTT SCT Doha 2025 (Huang Youzheng/Shi Xunyao and Chen Yuanyu/Chen Yi). Both...

The Yahoo Japan comments on Hochi's report of Sato, Hashimoto and Shibata are essentially my sentiment from late 2022 that they (along with Kato) are the 2nd most unfortunate. 卓球・佐藤瞳、橋本帆乃香、芝田沙季がミキハウス退社　２８年ロス五輪代表目指し、環境を変えて挑戦へ...

Definitely. Boll losing to Waldner at Athens 2004 was one of his biggest falls. Losing to RSM at WTTC 2007 was another. Compared to WTTC 2005 bronze medalist Maze (took down Wang Hao and Hao Shuai) who was also born in 1981, Boll has only taken down Chen Qi at WTTC 2011 (and ultimately won...

An interesting finding in a biomechanical study of MLin and WH is that the kinetic chain principle is not always followed, at least for FH loop against backspin ball. https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/topics/forehand-loop-against-underspin-technique.24739/post-335791...

"Power from ground" could be a translation of the Chinese phrase 力從地起/literally "force from the ground up", borrowed from martial arts.

Denso Polaris is a JTTL team. Sato and Shibata extending their contracts with Mallets (many coaches and players are also affiliated with Miki House) shows they have not severed their connection entirely, unlike Hashimoto. 橋本帆乃香がデンソーポラリスに加入＜2025年度日本卓球リーグ新加入選手・女子編＞...

TV Tokyo promo for WTTC 2025 starting... And who's JNT's First Lady? TV Tokyo: 【伊藤美誠】“東京五輪 金の怪物”｜卓球NIPPONを60秒で紹介｜世界卓球2025個人戦 5月17日（土）から連日放送 [url unfurl=false]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzDqe6DnzVU[/url]

Hashimoto didn't even finish top 16 at Zennihon Takkyu 2025 so she didn't even make the NT Reserve Players. Sasao made it probably for winning Zennihon Shakaijin Takkyu 2024. Takeya made it probably for winning Inter-High 2024 (It was back in last August and so should've made the previous list...

R32 F. Lebrun 2-3 LSS (5, -8, -6, 10, -9) Hopefully A. Lebrun has realized what he's done now. Not just MS, but also MD and probably MT are affected now. p.s. After winning WTT CS Montpellier 2024, Felix has lost to 5 lower-ranked non-CNT players: WTT CS Frankfurt 2024 - QF 1-3 Moregard WTT F...

Then Winter can really forget LA 2028 if HY could win the Europe Top 16 2025 upon her return. Polcanova: Europe Top 16 2025 was a blip caused by equipment...

HY got owned by Polcanova... Didn't expect that. p.s. HY 6 H2H 0 Polcanova before this, and Polcanova didn't win her 1st game until the 5th encounter, which was in 2020.

1. Cao ni ma 2. Frisbeeing the racket at a journalist/TV 3. Kicking at a TV while playing dumb 4. Smashing a plastic bottle ...

In Chinese, 拉球/literally "pull ball", or specifically, 拉弧圈/pull arc loop, is the term for the stroke. To help visualize the stroke, especially the weight transfer, think of the motion involved in pulling a heavy glass door open at a mall, especially those with 2 layers of doors (arctic entry)...