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Generating heavy spin is relative to one's level, you get better at it with better timing, physics and technique and by having more power to throw into the ball's rotation. So the key is more practice at taking your loop quality to the limits by looping to pips, for example. In general the...

Yeah, but Indian billionaires aren't funding TT everywhere :P.

We patiently await the Youtube appearances of @Shine.

The ball and equipment were different back then as well. It was much harder to push heavy spin short but short pushes were also more devastating. I think it is easy to underestimate how much influence the ball and the equipment has had on the game.

Pitchford and Lebrun at the moment live...

I tend to play with 09c more like H3 than I do with Tenergy 05, the tack makes the rubber more forgiving to racket angles than 05. This is true for me vs Tenergy 05 Hard as well.

Can you give an example of a match he suggested was fixed?

So you believe the team when it says it has explicitly stopped this practice (barring the Olympics), and determine that anyone who still believes in the existence of such practices is ideologically driven to hate the team?

So you are saying that China never had a policy that players would not be allowed to play in subsequent events after playing badly in a prior event? And that Tony is making this up completely?

That will be tough, Japan seems allergic to those ladies no matter how well they play.

ESN to ESN... nothing to see here....

I'll bring in some old school rallies eventually, but still sticking with the modern players for a bit - here is a great Jun Mizutani compilation, but I link within it to my favorite Mizutani point of all time:

One of the first points to show the aggressive rally potential of the plastic ball:

Beware of spreading rumors, @Shine will disapprove, even though policies like these were once commonly expressed by the CNT.

Thanks. Is that arbitrary or something inherent in the rubber production process?

They should just bring back the rubber.

Definitely interested, this is q classic blade that in a better world should still be made.

My theory is that the original target was Hugo Calderano. Though I dont think it was effective in that match.

Any chance of Boll for MLTT? He fits the washed up prescription that many here tout...

Since Doubles is now an Olympic event and Teams is no longer one, it makes common sense. Probably accelerated by Odo-Yoko not winning the WTTC.