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I think ML scarred FZD so much that no one can really appreciate FZD the way I think he should be appreciated. Harimoto, I put an asterisk next to because by 18-19, it was clear that his technical and ball reading forehand issues were making him susceptible to lower rated losses. But FZD was a...

Fan Zhendong.

So based on her current form, would you still have tried to get her not to take the injection at the Olympics?

I suspect if you presented video, you would find that Amayzde was right and you were wrong (the short balls would be high and attackable, or would actually be long balls that you read as short balls because of inexperience).

He wasn't lucky, he is almost the most physically talented player in the world and extremely creative. Probably the only player in Europe with a legitimate chance of beating Chinese players consistently at his best because his ball quality and defense need to be respected. If he learns how to...

It's like the fact that Chen Xingtong showed up as a last minute replacement for Wang Manyu and therefore didn't go through serious training has no impact on your assessment. In any case, I would have been surprised if we didn't get the obligatory Hirano puff piece.

Something about the environment or the ball is really rewarding spinny play.

Looks like Hayata is trying to make zeio miserable. The Chinese had better right the ship or zeio's infamous Tieba users might all have a heart attack.

This is an old recommendation that unfortunately the ittf has shown no interest in.

Looking at He Zhuojia's draw, she barely survives Sreeja Akula at deuce in the 5th, then she blanks Harimoto and Shin. Makes you wonder...

There is always time to prepare the major team better.

Usually the advice to be ready for the long serve is to have a defense against a fast long serve, not to prepare for a slow long serve. If it is shortish looking, really short serves are usually slower so there is time to get into the table and play a decent return though you are right that...

A short serve that is tight (low to the net) and hard to attack is an extremely hard thing to do consistently without world class training and even with such training, the variations in playing environment can upset the players. In fact, way way too often at our amateur levels, too many players...

From someone who was trying to make fun of me for claiming that Xue Fei was a clone for the RPB penholders that China faced (Felix and Qiu) or that Qian Tianyi could clone Hayata, your first statement sounds a lot like a measured reversal of opinion, even if we are not on the same page. I'll...

WTT strikes again. Spanish players were really nice.

He played like Felix completely by accident. Absolutely nothing to do with clone practice for Felix and Dang, absolutely nothing.

Different players are speaking about different things specific to different situations. No point combining all the videos to create a new confusion. How the wrist moves is also not necessarily how the body or arm is moving at the same time. The main point the coach in the video was...

He is playing the only European who i think can win a world championship in singles so IMHO, he did extremely well.

When you develop the hand speed and can judge the ball after a lot of practice, it becomes far less risky than you think, even when your paddle hits the table.

It assumes some things that it doesn't make explicit about thr way you approach the ball. But the main point is not to spin upwards, but to spin forwards. The other subtle point that is easy to miss is that a windshield wiper goes up and down and forms a mound/mountain.