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A couple of things from someone who used all wood blades for a *very long* time. 1) Carbon, even when arylate dampened, is just a different animal from wood in how it plays when it is outerforce. It is consistently rebounding and usually you need to dampen it with some stickiness to start with...

I largely agree with the caveat that star power is hard to get from younger players even when the quality is there. Pitchford is 31. He is still the #1 player in England and one of the most dangerous players in the world - he is playing laegely because his national team teammate (McBeath)...

Should Butterfly go back to the lab?

ビートダウン Bītodaun

I will leave people to assess your insight from what you have posted and whether world ranking is the best way to measure whether Quadri and Dima and CCY were still playing high level TT into their 30s. But anyone claiming that random top 200 players can beat 2700+ players is not worth...

Oh I am so sorry. You want to list the 3 best leagues in the world as the only high level leagues, go ahead. In the real world, most people know that if Liam Pitchford, Emmanuel Lebesson and Benedikt Olah and such 2700+ players are playing in your league, you have a good league as these...

You really should do some investigation before making such statements. I remember someone making a similarly degrading statement about Kou Lei saying there was no way he could be rated above Enzo Angles, even though Enzo had lost 0-3 lead to Kou at a US tournament and also lost 0-3 to Kou...

In the US, one can play these players in Open round robins on rare occasions if they are not seeded out so while the question isn't typical, it isn't as radical as you might think for a player who is active on the US table tennis scene. I have played Wang Zhen at Cary Cup for example. I have...

Nah. He is Bill Murray's twin brother.

I can imagine them studying WCQ game plan for ideas. I also think having coaches favors Sora.

He did his job. Kenji Matsudaira will be encouraged to do his lol.

No, who kept remembering, you? Is anyone other than you bringing up Kato in context of Hayata's current success?

Yeah but did Ito beat all her major opponents 4-0? My memory is not always the best about these things... That said, Ito is still a top Japanese player. Let's show some patience with Hayata and not rush to end her career and trust every pessimistic thing she says about her condition which she...

Haters gonna hate...

Nah. The tombstone is important to their agenda. They don't realize everything is day to day.

How do they say "beatdown" in Japanese?

I hope all the people digging Hayata's tombstone can at least see that a lot of patience is warranted.

Still hating I see.

Not always politically correct to say this but if she intends to start a family, this is probably the latest reasonable age unless she is very wealthy.

Well, she gets a real test in semis - it is really funny to me at least how they put semis and finals on the same day and have only one day of quarters - now I think about it, it is probably to have decent value for visiting spectators in terms of number of matches.