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Again, I get that these are pressing political issues that impact the lives of people. I am old and wise enough to know that these things can be related to any and every topic of national and international interest so in the end, there is no point discussing them outside of their direct impact...

He might just be a good player. That said, Tenergy 19 was designed to make mid-distance Euro style looping great again. Whether it succeeds at any level, people can judge that.

That's not the impression I get reading this article at all. What I get is that there are diplomatic issues tied to recent statements by the Japanese PM regarding China and Taiwan. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-18/japan-moves-to-calm-tensions-with-china-over-taiwan-comments/106020928...

Looks like Kallberg is going to be the villain of the Sweden Hong Kong match and T Harimoto won't matter for the Japan Germany match. Japan Korea will probably be when the event begins. I was surprised that China Korea was so boring...

No disagreement - it's a matter of what this becomes in practice and to what degree this is inherent to the event as opposed to something that can be more easily addressed either in another thread or on another kind of forum. But that bridge will be crossed when if/when it is reached.

Is Harimoto just terrible against top players who use RPB?

Someone may have answered this elsewhere but why is Lam Siu Hang playing these singles and not Chan Baldwin?

Miwa limits Annett's lightning in a bottle performance to the Olympics and bagels her in Chengdu.

It's good to know that there is an alternative context for understanding all this that makes it possibly more palatable. That said, since the focus will largely be on this event, I suspect this discussion might have to take place elsewhere if it gets too long. It is interesting that Chinese...

I don't remember Zhu Chengzhu ever being particularly good vs chop. What changed?

Looks like Germany willplay Kaufmann against Harimoto and to that end, put Mittelham and Duda in the XD. Will be interesting to see whether that yields fruit on the whole. I wonder whether they will test Winter in XD at some point...

Ladies and Gentlemen, as much as we try to be laissez faire, please if someone posts something blatantly undesirable to the forum just report it rather than creating a trail of posts that will need to be deleted eventually. I have deleted posts related to wishing death to those who erroneously...

Umpire messing up the score a few times in Croatia - France. What's the cause???

Charlotte Lutz beats Lea Rakovic 3-0. I guess France was saving her for Croatia while Croatia tired its players out in Round 1...

Gauzy does a behind the back at 0-1, 9-6 that has Arapovic looking lost lol....

If someone had told me that Yang Haeun still had a WTT title in her, I would have called them a liar lol. Congrats to her. https://www.worldtabletennis.com/description?artId=5671

64 is pretty decent on forehand, it is a style choice, people who are used to arcing low balls with thick brush with confidence will not be huge fans of 64 vs something like 09c or Zyre or 05 because arc and spin matter when you are trying to thread the needle under precise...

Dignics broadly is not as jumpy as Tenergy and Tenergy 19 was designed to not be as jumpy as T05 (I have two sheets of T19, just haven't played with them, I have tested a Teammates blade, he said he was happy to switch from 05 to 19 on forehand because he could play flat more). The thing is...

Those are all good rubbers, probably the most all round is Dignics 80, but Dignics 64 and Tenergy 19 are pretty spinny and good as well. They are much faster and broadly produce more spin than the Vega Pro/Hexer/Rakza 7 generation though I have a soft spot for Hexer,C-1 and Rakza 7, but they...

Definitely not good if true. Dangerous especially if the inciter is capable of executing on it ore getting others to. Hopefully, there are steps take to address it.