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Kareem is that comedy actor, right, costarring with Leslie Nielsen?

I hope LGL doesn't end up.

Yes... Popularity seems very, very regional indeed. The US in particular has a bunch of oddball branches of sport taking the spotlights; in the rest of the world other strange hobbies take the cake, such as football ("soccer", "foot", "futebol", ...), cricket, tennis, volleyball, iceskating...

Still doesn't ring a bell. Googled it, still no bell. Then again, I remember having to look up Brian Boitano as well, back in the days of Bigger, Longer and Uncut.

When did this happen? I see Fan Zhendong, Xu Xin sitting there also, which for some or other reasons makes me suspect this happened prior to the China Open. Right?

Hm. Never heard of her.

These things happen, and there's a correllation there. Especially the short night, in my experience. I get the same; many people accuse me of having a superhero alter ego, the superhero in question being Too Much Coffee Man. THIS IS NOT TRUE! I'm Too Much Espresso Guy, secretly.

Wow. That hurt. Do you really think TT is boring? You're just floating it here, pretty much as it's a given commonly accepted. Making that remark a loaded one. Since I'm weird, when I think I detect such a presumption in a remark my devious mind always runs the (loaded) question "are you...

Two words for ya: Tomokazu Harimoto. :-) Of course, that's a simplification. There's no such thing as the best table tennis style. Not all players are equally skilled in every aspect. Technical development, game experience and the changes that come with age also matter a lot. Tactics are...

I thought Quadri Aruna was named Quadri Aruna, but in this list it's Aruna Quadri?

Speed requires highly developed feeling and stable technique. Barring that, a high level of inconsistency is prone to occur. Speed without feeling/technique == lack of control with a very narrow margin of error. Typical symptoms: many unforced errors, including easy ones.

Welcome, WorkerBee who's been playing ten years before me, I tip my hat to thee. Let's celebrate the budding promises birthday indeed. I have a fine vintage Armagnac to raise later today.

BOOM! I think that question's spot on.

There is such a thing as silent diplomacy, where issues are discussed and stances perhaps softened quietly, without (too much) loss of face — or, rather, too much public loss of face. When things go public, stances harden. It is hard to seek a soft solution once every aberration from the hard...

It already did. LGL was quietly taken behind the barn, suddenly, and even if nothing else had happened afterwards this deprivement by itself is a negative impulse.

While I fully share that grim view, there's this little spark of hope (against better judgement, maybe) that insists the power grab isn't entirely a done deal yet, and that the extraordinary superstar status of the players and coaches involved might just make a little difference in this day and...

Thanks ajtatosmano2, and OSPH for your kind compliments. While I may play like a giant squid, the analysis might still help. * I experimented with timing, starting out taking the ball rather late. Intentional, but it is an area I'm sometimes a slacker in; more forward is better, this is...

Hate to spoil the party, but you might want to read up a bit on the concept of repressive tolerance. :-(

I hope to see DOUBLES and if so swear I will stay up LATE to see Jun Mizutani/Joo Saehyuk play Vladimir Samsonov/Tomokazu Harimoto. Well, a man can dream, can't he?

My very first blade (Stiga Offensive Stellan Bengtsson) was a damaged secondhand. A sideways hit had dented it, and a few mm of top ply had come loose. I took it to the shop ("Posno Sport", for those in the know) where the friendly people told me they would patch it up by removing splinters...