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  1. 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships

    Hung has stopped playing to study to become a doctor or lawyer the last time I heard. Liu Gaoyang went to study in the US in 2019. https://www.sohu.com/a/331033678_120044304 https://weibo.com/3659684175/HAgU0BDT6
  2. 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships

    加山 兵伍(KAYAMA Hyogo), AKA 華兵(Hua Bing) and the name for his club in Japan, 華兵卓球場. He's a former CNT player. Played penhold short-pips. Against Koji Matsushita at the All-Japan 2002: According to this blog post, Kayama stopped Uda from winning in all 3 categories at the All-Japan 2013...
  3. 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships

    A blade yet-to-be-revealed by Nittaku, likely. BTW, how time flies (11/14/2014 at 2:10am). :)
  4. Return of International TT Matches

    無限接近0? ITTF World Series all the way! https://www.mytischtennis.de/public/international/14961/ittf-protest--das-sagen-weikert--geiger--boll-und-ovtcharov/ Not all top players could understand the decision of the ITTF to move the World Cup for women and men and the Grand Finals to China. In...
  5. Are ZLC blades even popular?

    Some trivial facts. Zxion is not Zylon. Commercially available since 2010, Zxion is an original synthetic fiber produced by KB Seiren, a Japanese joint venture of Kanebo and Seiren. Kanebo almost folded up and was bought out by Seiren in 2005. Zxion is actually closer to Arylate(Vectran) as...
  6. 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships

    The game ended so quickly. Harimoto won by using his BH only. I think he played 2 FHs the whole game. Harimoto: A total waste of time! SSJ god vs SSJ blue Stage 1 1 Harimoto won. 3 Uda lost. 5 Niwa won. 7 Rematch of MS SF at All-Japan 2020. Harimoto won again. 9 Morizono lost. 2 Hayata...
  7. Dwell Time .....

    FFS, stop complicating things. That's like saying "ratio of tangential COR to normal COR" is different from "throw angle". Dwell time = contact time/duration. Look up studies and research papers on tennis. The terms are interchangeable. For a decade, every such topic gets turned into a...
  8. Dwell Time .....

    I love how the OP is active but has never replied. But thanks to frankie, I've stumbled upon some interesting studies with results that are consistent with my own observations.
  9. Return of International TT Matches

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/others/sharath-sathiyan-named-among-reserves-for-world-cup/articleshow/78045378.cms
  10. Are ZLC blades even popular?

    ALC has been king in China for nearly a decade. Cash grab Viscaria Golden says it all. ZJK winning the Grand Slam with the Viscaria in the shortest amount of time infected players, men and women, around the world to EJ. Before all that craze, TBS and TB ALC, especially the former, were...
  11. 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G45itIpIg8k https://sports.yahoo.co.jp/video/player/3212817 @0:50 Hayata: There will be a match against the men's team. I want to see how far I could push them. If possible, I want to take them on with my FH. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqMKh5BJcv8 @1:20...
  12. Return of International TT Matches

    On the way to Weihai already? ZYL out of the hospital? Too much of a coincidence? https://weibo.com/6865474126/JjGdhgwe1?from=page_1005056865474126_profile&wvr=6&mod=weibotime
  13. Return of International TT Matches

    https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?23698-Tokyo-2020-2020-7-24-8-9&p=318101&viewfull=1#post318101 https://www.ittf.com/2020/09/11/welcome-wtt-macau/
  14. Return of International TT Matches

    https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3100838/hong-kongs-wong-chun-ting-and-doo-hoi-kem-compete-revamped-world
  15. 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships

    https://www.daily.co.jp/general/2020/09/10/0013682014.shtml In mixed doubles, men and women may play together, but men and women do not play in a singles format. Even more, it seems to be a valuable opportunity for the top players of the Japanese national team to play against each other, but...
  16. Return of International TT Matches

    14-day quarantine is standard procedure now. The fact is there was next to no flight between China and Europe/US a few months back. https://www.dailysabah.com/business/transportation/1st-post-coronavirus-lockdown-flight-departs-europe-for-china...
  17. Return of International TT Matches

    https://hochi.news/articles/20200910-OHT1T50158.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2a254d7c2615772111201827fe72a0effeeca18f The table tennis world, where tournaments were canceled due to the corona disaster, has started to move. The ITTF announced on...
  18. Return of International TT Matches

    https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/tischtennis-olympia-boll-corona-china-1.5024700 When the Olympic Games were postponed to next year in March, Timo Boll was a little relieved. He's still one of the best German table tennis players, but he's also 39 years old; a lost sports year like 2020 is...
  19. Return of International TT Matches

    Other topasses follow his example. Gotta love Google Translate. https://www.dw.com/de/timo-boll-und-sein-china/a-6648361-0 Has China become a second home for you? Or just a nice location to earn good money? Asks "fantuanjun_TIM". If you've been to China as often as I have, then China has...
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