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Well, my idol said she had to raise her ranking to "get seed" for the Olympics. Well, not like she stands a chance even if she's top 4. https://www.sponichi.co.jp/sports/news/2020/02/11/kiji/20200211s00026000519000c.html...

In China, it's often said playing choppers is a good way to judge how solid your overall game is. It's often narrowed down to the FH, since no one in Asia would use the BH to this extent. Even though Eastern Europe has had a tradition of producing players with exceptional BH, a player who...

Funny descriptions for Jorgic's matches against Wang Yang and Pucar. Instead of FH, he prefers to play choppers with BH — BH little monster, Darko Jorgic from Slovenia. The previous one to rip chops like that was the one who defeated Liu Guoliang back then, Karakasevic. Really fierce. A...

In terms of single-shot quality, Jorgic is definitely up there. Despite the extreme orientation of his game, his short game is actually decent, unlike Kreanga and Ovtcharov. You can tell he's not just brute force from his touch on the short FH. Right now, he has the same problem as with...

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?22664-2020-World-Team-Table-Tennis-Championships&p=302586&viewfull=1#post302586

https://www.tabletennisdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?22753-German-Open-2020&p=304327&viewfull=1#post304327

Watching Jorgic play Wang Yang and Pesotska against Han Ying at the same time reminds me why I should never give up watching European table tennis. They have such funky styles.

Well, Abe stresses that the Games will proceed as planned despite serious concerns. https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3049311/japans-olympic-chief-seriously-worried-about

p.s. Updated the highlighting to be consistent with ITTF where the most recent event takes precedence.

Fun Fact: If CM gets picked for singles, she'll create history for being the first Olympian and gold medal contender from CNT with NO national title, NO continental title, and NO world title... True to her nickname - Ms Open.

The propositions were passed at the BoD meeting during the WTTC 2019. They're through. They're in the handbook. Since Proposition 19 will take effect in Tokyo 2020, Propositions 16 and 21 will also be applied...

CNT got their continental quota at the ATTC last year and the deadline for that is May 15, so roughly 3 months left to decide if they'll be able to raise LSW's and DN's ranking by July, which will be used for seeding.

T.League reports that Hayata has visited the hospital for a diagnosis after returning from German Open and it's intercostal muscle strain. https://tleague.jp/team/nissay-redelf/news/article/3682/

The ITTF is very poor in keeping the fans in the loop. Not like they care anyway...

I wish the ITTF would do it the old way, where they publish the excel file in which they keep a column of "last updated". The new way sucks royally. It's hard to keep track of changes as they replace them completely instead of leaving them there but grayed/crossed out. ---------- Anyway...

The eggheads say that the peak will come this April or May.

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What would happen to rule 4.5.2.3. in that case? What's the point of passing the proposition just to backtrack later?

In the 2011 Yasaka Catalog, there's this passage for the Pryde series. Difference in performance due to rubber hardness The softer the rubber, the higher the acceleration when hitting lightly, but the lower the power limit. Conversely, the harder the rubber, the higher the acceleration when...