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Nice change of topic, but your refusal to acknowledge the main point is not doing you any favors. If you acknowledge that most countries would consider autocratically denying their top player a chance to play for history in order to develop the team to be an issue, then there is nothing to...

Let's remember, the stakes conversation was about Togami, not WCT, and about using that as an explanation for Togami's form losing to Matsushima just after Togami had beaten WCT. As for the Ma Long issue, regardless of explanation, the main point is that the loss cost him nothing of...

How many countries will leave the reigning World (2 time defending,3 time consecutive) and Olympic Champion at home just so that the Olympic silver medallist can win his first World Championship? There are enough examples and issues that anyone who just wants to make this not about differences...

The main point being made here is that China has invested in TT (from an financial and human resources perspective) to a point that many countries can only dream. The idea that what the Chinese do in developing "clones" is similar to what Lin Yun Ju can do by hiring a chopper to train against...

It depends - let's remember that in China, there were years where this lady with short/medium pips on backhand and electric forehand would win the internal trials - Mu Zi - and she wouldn't be able to qualify to play. Eventually, they did let her play WTTC in 2017, but it is no urban legend...

Why is the Korean wearing a white T shirt in doubles? What am I missing?

Everything is fair for sure. Sora's style is inherently volatile because it is very touch/feeling based, I don't think the score changes are about attitude as much as they are about the limitations of his style, limitations that may evolve with age as well.

Yes, his primary and sometimes exclusive serve is the reverse pendulum. Similar to Kou Lei, though Kou Lei serves a bit more backhand.

WCT is one of the most underrated players in the world. Ma Jinbao is really good, but Wong Chun Ting can literally beat any player in the world when his game is on.

Nah, Xu Yingbin is playing French League and learning a lot, and in the end, these are just practice matches for WCQ.

I find these things amazing, I don't know how other people consider such things normal. Or can talk about his attitude or such stuff.

You are not imagining things, the blade is much faster than the review presents.

John S is an expert on equipment and what pros use, and when you ask him which pros he gets this information from and which pros he knows personally, he never answers.

To support your point, there are lots of matches in TT where a player gets injured and can no longer move and then his blocking game throws of his opponent more than the previous rally game. We have the famous Ding Ning incident vs LSW, we have Samsonov vs Dima at the Olympics, and I remember...

It's ignorance of the history of the sport that leads someone to think that what Wang Chuqin and Ma Long are doing is inherently more athletic than high level hardbat. Modern TT taxes some things more than hardbat does, but hard bat usually leads to far longer and taxing rallies and that by...

In reality, pickleball is actually more athletic than table tennis, other than with respect to certain aspects of speed. The spin dimension that makes table tennis interesting is what really differentiates it from pickleball and that is hardly athletic in nature.

My opinion for what its worth is that if someone wants an athletic endeavor, they should go play tennis. Or even hardbat. If you are playing modern table tennis, you are not playing it for athleticism per se, you are playing it because you enjoy the spin dimension. And pips introduce a...

You can watch the match and read his interviews, he discusses the need to lose weight as he realizes that he doesn't need as much bulk to play good table tennis and watching Lin reinforced that.

The night is darkest before the dawn. Didn't Lin Yun Ju fall put of the top 10?