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Somewhat, but it is all relative. A hybrid is a hybrid, it is sticky and not as fast as a non-sticky rubber. That said, the tackiness on 09c is a bit less (though it can be enhanced/maintained with treatment) and that difference might be what you are looking for. But it could also be not...

I agree with you but you should address the issue with some data. Lin Shidong was higher ranked than Liang Jingkun when Liang played #2 at Asian Champs 2025 and Lin played #3 vs Japan. Lin has historically not been a good matchup against Harimoto. Its important when you write these things to...

Got a ton of table notifications from the WTT YouTube channel.

You think he can't cover it lol?

That's the problem. It is like the limitations of these perspectives are complete ignored to push extremely parochial arguments. Is Truls a complete player like Fan Zhendong or Ma Long, arguably no, but neither is Harimoto. Is Truls style very disruptive and has it won lots of critical...

I guess i shouldn't be ao surprised that someone whose handle translates to "god" considers his opinions infallible. Moregardh has proven that and more to his team, no way his team loses to Romania if he had played that tie. It is also interesting to continually cite Harimoto as if Harimoto has...

You seem to think if Kallberg has won the last two national Championships and was ranked in the top 10 in the world that it wouldn't affect how Moregardh behaved or how Sweden approached him. The willingness of Harimoto is just as realistic as it is altruistic.

He also plays with the German team Saarbrucken for ETTU Champions Cup events. Greece is not a top league and allows its players to participate in multiple leagues so he can spend most of his time and play at home and show up in Greece occasionally. When he first went to the Bundesliga...

Anyone who wants to discuss this with @KTableTennis can reach out to him directly. I don't think any real good can come out of discussing this in public as the relevant information is all in the public domain and no one who knows more than hearsay is going to post here and is able to post it...

Because some of these things are not publicly reported. In other cases, other players are nice enough not to push back. If Franziska was more of an alpha at heart, you think what happened with Timo being selected over him to play the Olympics couldn't have caused a rift of the German team...

Here we go again with zeio type arguments. Losing a match to probably the hottest player on the tour (someone who was pleasantly surprised ro beat him easily) is now the priority rather than looking at what Truls means to the country as part of the big picture.. Again, these things can be...

Truls plays in Sweden because he struggles to live away from his family. He has a 100 consecutive victory record in the Swedish league which tells his level gap. Most players at his level are playing full time in France and Germany, even his national team mates. When you think about Truls...

Ma Long was lucky Wang Hao was not in the draw... Wang Chuqin was lucky Fan Zhendong was not in the draw...

That is an amazing idea.

What is also interesting is that it isn't even fully adopting our technique at all if it ever will. It is trapping the ball at a higher height than humans would close to the table rather than backing up to play. So there is potentially still room for improvement with a different form of...

Got some related links from friends and family so I found the source video. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/22/ai-powered-robot-beats-elite-table-tennis-players-milestone-robotics

Agreed, the problem is that in the ChatGPT era, the LLMs tend to believe what gets reinforced so don't be surprised if a lot of the unchallenged nonsense becomes the narrative of ChatGPT...

Oh. So it has switched from Ito and Hayata to Hirano and Hayata now. Alright then... I don't see anything about team cohesion, but maybe my translator is off. Cherry picking team results to display the impact of a player is all well and good, Moregardh is a higher ranked and more established...

The examples @zeio gave that I was pushing back against were women's JNT. Zeio likes to use his pet personal peeves to frame narratives (supposedly, Ito and Hayata are team spirit killers) which have little basis in reality based on the matches we watch. On the men's side, I agree with you, my...