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No one doubts that. But not as a Frontline player. Ask all the girls that used pips.

You have to have a minimum commitment of 6 shots to win the point when playing with slow spin - anything less is a lucky point and you will take it, but be willing to grind. Be willing to back up and reloop if they are mostly blocking. Learn to add sidespin to make the blocks harder. I...

Good luck with that, especially on the CNT.

Placement is always important as is service when playing opponents where nothing seems to be working. You need to find out what happens when you make them move and create new angles by putting the ball to the short forehand or the wide backhand. Means work for you as well as for them, but at...

Play against him more and more, the problem is universal. The biggest thing is that the tactics he uses against you will tend to work against him. The most common area of weakness is the very wide forehand of both players, lefties are just more adept at finding it because they play many more...

Youth and the defender's curse. The game is too fast now for you to be floating balls to your opponent and hope they miss.

FZD is hard to beat, headband or no headband.

A lot of table tennis is invisible (mental) so while you see the players hitting the ball, you don't see their anticipation and preparation as much. The anticipation and preparation is the biggest thing that distinguishes the levels of well trained players and is why it is very hard to...

The CNT is so efficient that people underestimate how good the people who even threaten them are.

I'll have what she's having...

The point is true for Franziska as well. The Chinese are usually confident that if they get the short push in, they get the first attack. Xu Xin was surprised that Franziska could re-drop the short push. And of course, his over the table openers are legendary. One of my high level coach...

. She tightened up over the last few points, don't think stability had as much to do with it as that the risks she took didn't pan out. The only point I really faulted her for in that stretch was not pivoting on the Wang Yidi long serve, but that might just have been that she misjudged the length.

Many people who play with dark side rubbers don't have training partners. I was lucky to start my TT in Philadelphia area which had a lot of pips players and coach who despite not being a pips player had a lot of experience playing against them and could use them in training. So I learned that...

The mysterious lady who just doesn't seem to show up where you expect her to show up lol.

Many athletes are playing with help, as you get older, it is often less effective. At a certain point, retirement beckons. The good days become fewer, but what ThePongCommenter is focusing on is the good days.

It can be called a focus on outliers for sure, but the question becomes who else has those outliers? When only one or two players have beaten the super Chinese, it is no longer juat a trivial fact. Lee Sang Su is also a WTTC bronze medalist (2017) so it isn't like he never won anything in his...

I think it is quite obvious that Xiang Peng had backhand issues and needed to work on his backhand play. This tournament is encouraging in that regard. He beat players that would previously have eaten hin alive in backhand to. Backhand matchups. We just have to see whether it lasts.

Can't rule it out for sure: peak LSS was at 2017 WTTC and he has always been streaky.

This can be true but is not necessarily true. Can heavy slow spin cause timing issues for some opponents? Especially if the ball is short and has to be taken over the table? The problem is that it is difficult to produce this ball consistently. Timo used to be able to do it with the older...