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LJK lost more points in that period. The ranking algorithm is a sliding window function, summarizing the best results (max 8, iirc) in 12 months. That means ranking points change as time progresses.

Aren’t quite a few french pros using relatively moderate all-wood blades - Gauzy, Lebesson, Mattenet? And what about Samsonov?

The mailing had a convincing answer. They mean to reach out to a different audience, beyond the usual crowd.

Noooooo! That will seriously degrade the Z fibers!

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Train with a coach. Grip, basic stroke and stance, grip, reset to neutral, basic stroke, all that. Then again, have fun first and foremost. Improving may enhance the fun greatly, but there’s a threshold there and the danger would be to discipline the joy away.

Yes, in my experience. I'd say, no.

There’s the exit angle, the exit velocity, and the rotation (and the related coriolis force bending the curve), and there are the air and table friction coefficients and the table rebound factor. What else is there? Rotation has to do with perpendicular force applied, transferred to a...

The Gewo Hype and Xiom Vega comparitive trajectory charts look contradictory. The Gewo charts show flatter curves for harder sponges (mostly, that is). The Xiom charts shows wider curves for harder sponges. Are both valid, and is this a different topsheet working very differently?

Yes, and 5 Seconds of Summer is the GOAT of popular music. Unless you’re willing to really let that “of all time” sink in. How can you even make such a claim, disregarding not only Barna, Bergman, Cai, Guo etc. but also dismissing all future players offhand? The GOAT game is a semantically...

Yes, and 5 Seconds of Summer is the GOAT of popular music. Unless you’re willing to really let that “of all time” sink in. How can you even make such a claim, disregarding not only Barna, Bergman, Cai, Guo etc. but also dismissing all future players offhand? The GOAT game is a semantically...

Didn’t WMY and SYS retire in shame?

Relatable, yes. Entertaining, yes. Informative, yes, certainly when Dan's doing them with a pro showing off extreme skills to highlight some or other rubber feat (Can Accuzu doing the short off-the-bounce chop/push, Timo Boll showing topspin variation and power). Comparable, less so. The...

I want ur friendships, then! :cool:

How did you manage that?

There is that frame, yes, that looks down on "experts" (snort!) learning things from "books" (double snort). The fact that this frame exists does not mean you (we the people, in fact) should embrace it, quite the contrary. We should not let the framers hijack these terms, and dismiss any form...

As a mathematician, rubbers aren’ t the first things springing to mind; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_product is.

Yes, I have quite a few nice tensor products on offer. :-)

Exactly. Some players I practice with have suffered oxygen deficiency at birth, with brain development issues as a consequence. In play they’re doing ok, but left-right coordination is hampered. Serve toss is an issue, the best they can manage is serving out of hand. Others have suffered polio...

Deng Yaping is a forceful argument indeed! This I did not know. Tnx, NL!