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Anyway, if your shot selection is not good, the ball doesn’t matter. The only obvious importance of type of table and ball, in my opinion for amateurs up to intermediates, is when you try to serve short. Or more generally when you try to keep the game closed. It’s much harder on faster tables...

if I remember correctly he just decided to not play league games next season. It is very well possible that this decision liberated him from quite some pressure.

To me yes, feels similar in my hand

I play YSE coming down from a ma lin carbon, and I can confirm that to me they feel very similar in the hand. I think your analysis is spot on if sweet spot is what you’re searching for. Be sure to match the weight though my ma lin carbon is 93 grams and my YSE 82

Or the normal Carbon. I play my matches with the Sweden extra, and also have a ma lin carbon, I feel they are very close in how they feel in my hand.

I find playing pips players an excellent benchmark for my ability to control my equipment. If I overshoot a lot , means I need to slow down and if I can’t pass the net I need to increase the speed.

I’d say any return that doesn’t set up your opponents game is good to a short serve. I always start with a preferred return. Lowest percentage of direct mistakes. Then if they do attack my preferred return I try to augment the quality of that return. (Placement, height, deception) and add variety.

Forest Gump :)

it can happen that someone playing in the higher teams of our club requests playing on a specific table for the simple reason that he will play a match later the weekend on that same table

I know table tennis is a whole lot more frustrating than playing guitar hahahaha. You cannot really lose playing guitar.

Shot selection on serve receive

You need to take into consideration the time for development and promotion this imposes on the player. He or his management might simply not want it.

Backhand, pivot, forehand. Repeat

Normally you should focus on legs and core strength. Check out peak performance table tennis for the best exercises for these groups of muscles. The rest is conditioning, have your training partner actively coach you. Just a “stay low” whenever you missed a shot because you came up.

I find that playing against long pips is an excellent benchmark for new equipment in relation to your own skill level. With all the rhythm changes and awkward placements. For me it just sounds like you were playing with a paddle you could more easily control. Also probably you gave a lot less...

Yes, to me the answer is training. And applying your training in matches.

The exact reason why the number one deserves to be there

I adapt my strategies to how I feel and to my opponent of course. Try to forget the score

I feel that on the wtt list the person coming in first at the end of the year deserves it. You need to win to gain points. More impressive so if it’s Wang since he got almost no points from the olympics or the Asian championships. Best player of the year for me is Fan no doubt. Lin will have...

There was no round of 32 this time so perfect tournament for him