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Developing a player appropriately is very different from repeating or parroting broad table tennis wisdoms. Many people can't tell the difference and it isn't their fault. I remember the father of the top Australian junior who lives in US, he once told me that the reason why he could get his...

Why not? You can always change, but the role of equipment can be overstated if you have good guidance/coaching, which is the most important thing. If you want to minimize the changes, then under good guidance, start with what you intend to use long term. or something close to it. This is more...

If you live in the NE USA around NJ, PA or MD along I95 or the California areas, you can find a tournament almost every week if you really want to play. Focusing on rating is really a losing game, though I get why we all do it. Other than maybe for kids who get ranking, what a rating really...

The thing about practice that many people get wrong (and I am not saying this applies to anyone on this thread) is that there is nothing wrong with making errors in practice - it is a adaptive process. So while the shot is fine, one could argue that there is more upper arm engaged than ideal...

Someone asked on YouTube why FZD was called "Little Fatty" and it made me think of Wang Tao, who was my late coach's favorite player because he was a short and stocky guy. Here is a match vs Persson. Persson I love watching because his technique makes more sense to me than most modern players...

The stroke is fine, in reality no one plays one good stroke, most people have a variety of techniques they adapt to balls and this shot is not out of place. I tell people all the time the secret to a high level backhand is getting more and more used to the wrist pointing towards your target at...

The highlight videos are out. Maybe you have regional viewing issues but they have been out for a while.

They gave him an award of sorts for winning 3 in a row and he made a speech in Chinese and repeated it in English. The team doesn't need him as much anymore so whether he is retiring or not, it probably isn't worth it to suffer like this to keep his level.

Lionheart!

Fan's defensive skills are crazy - that 2-1, 9-9 point, that was a loose serve and Wang thought he could win it on the return. Crazy that Fan won that point. Losing game 4 is crushing in this kind of war of attrition. The problem is that Wang is not used to fighting like this, but Fan is used...

I want Wang to win, but I think FZD just has a higher level of maturation. All the years of suffering against Ma Long have given him perspective against other opponents. WCQ might need another year or two of same.

Sun Yingsha wins a match where both players were obviously fighting through nerves. Congrats to Sun, and who would have predicted that the pair of Zhu Yuling and Chen Meng would only finish their careers with runner-up titles at the WTTC when they were clearly the future in 2015? Though by...

It felt like a mercy game to be honest.

WH was unlucky to have Zhang Jike lol.

ML could not maintain. I can't see where he will find a stable edge here. This might be 0‐4.

Fan Zhendong is so respected that no one is talking up Wang's triple crown chances which were just as real as Sun Yingsha's.

That was how it was in Houston as well, though to be fair, a lot of players did travel in from all over the country to watch, including myself.

The best match of the event!

Again???

8‐5 to 8‐11. Hope died there.