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Your anticipation of sitting balls, especially when returned on your serve, and your getting into position to kill them or place them to wide angles/into the elbow is slow. You probably also need to develop a kill shot for some of those balls. If you improve that, you can shorten a few points...

Yoshimura just won the 2026 Feeder in Instanbul.

The criteria I heard/read is that anything not filled by trials, top 3 ranked players and national champion is then filled by coaches(Strengthening Committee) selection. Since Miwa, Ito, Hayata, Mende filled top 3 + Trials, whatever is left is coaches(Strengthening Committee) selection...

Ito just took the spot that she was qualified for by World Ranking so only one of Nagasaki or Hashimoto could make the team. Would be interesting to know what determined the choice between Hashimoto and Nagasaki.

This is interesting because I thought for some reason that the Asian Table Tennis Champs had the same qualifier as the 2026 London WTTTC. Since Hina is playing, not sure it is smart for Odo not to play, but that said, if they are to stay consistent, it is very hard to find Japanese players with...

Flavien Coton, meet gravity...

Liu Jialiang is underrated everywhere lol.... SPOILER: He has the result to prove it as well lol...

Be conscious of your foot positioning when you train and when you play. Many players train forehand and backhand out of very different stances even when they are not very athletic, and don't remember that they are transitioning from one to the other when playing forehand vs backhand or...

The funny thing is that i play with players with the playing level you would think would make them appreciate the importance of standard warm up but they are older than i am so I don't bring it up so I don't want to be rude. They just smash my topspins and loop the ball all over the place. No...

I remember someone using this as an example of blades of pros not being used or sold to the public - soon this will be no longer:

I am familar with all those names. Bence beat Seyfried and yes, all those guys are better than Szantozi. Hopefully it pays off in a few years so it isn't all wasted!

I am seeing Bence Majoros playing Joe Seyfried now in Pro B final. I remember only Csabas and Szudi played with a junior (Szantozi). I am sure Bence could have helped the team tremendously.

The team dynamics between the men's teams and the women's teams are very different and I think the Group stage for 1A explains a lot. Japan could field the benched players on the women's team and still win the silver, even with risk. Doing that on the men's team given no real preliminary...

In China, the coaches have all achieved at least as much as the players, but in Japan, the players tend to have achieved more than the coaches. I feel as if unless they get a Chinese coach or Mizutani tries to get behind the bench, there is no serious solution. Even watching the JNT women get...

So we can discuss this forever without agreeing: there are two ways to get on the team, the first is to have ranking and results that merit automatic placement and the second is to win internal trials. Liang got his place as a result of the former despite injury and because the coaches trusted...

Japan lost despite having ABC - I guess ABC is both a curse and a blessing, a blessing if your A player wins and a curse if he doesn't.

Usually, you are not supposed to pass the baton, you are supposed to have the baton taken from you. Don't you see that none of the players you listed could win internal trials and get to the bench vs players Wang Hao ultimately had no confidence fielding?

France is still extremely interesting. Felix, Flavien, and any of Alexis, Gauzy, Poret, and even beyond that a few others make for extremely tantalizing possibilities. China usually makes their talent mature into superheroes, but they don't have anyone in the pipeline that is clearly at the...

Yes, but not the way you are thinking about. You can actually maintain your level watching good table tennis without playing it as often and get worse hitting the ball with challenging yourself.

In my experience, the most consistent players generate the most spin and in doing so often master how to manipulate and vary it in a variety of ways and under different circumstances. You may have a different experience and that is entirely fine.