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Iamsan, not to be rude but it is pretty much a non-starter to ask serious questions about technique without posting video. If the best player in your club who I assume is at a decent level (2100+ or has coached at that level) is teaching you something then listen to him. Nothing in TT is...

Yes. That combined with the WJTTC results are a loud warning to the Chinese women. And we still haven't seen what Miwa Harimoto can do yet. Generations matter and it isn't clear they have a 15 year old on the level of Kihara (depending on how you evaluate Kuai Man), though the pips come with...

It's the Olympics!

They need to present the trophies and let's get on to what will likely be a disappointing main course. Father Time may have finally intervened in the ML-FZD battle.

This is not my experience at all. Hazin is not a player on the level.of Liu when you compare men and women. Hazin is not top 100 as a man and Liu is likely top 50 or better as a woman. The rating levels matter. But other than maybe when chopping with pips (in which case there is weaker...

Of course Niwa was lucky. But Mizutani never played a schedule that showed desperation.

Physical strength. Chen Meng is the strongest of the women players, Wang Manyu #2. That can change with age but Wang Manyu is used to overpowering players. It just doesn't work against Chen. Chen is a modest disappointment relative to physical talent level but she still has 4 years to fix...

Sour grapes. Koki Niwa had to beat the same Hugo Calderano that Muzutani couldn't beat as part of his effort.

I like a coach like that. He is just trying to relieve his players of useless pressure. That said he must not have heard that doubting your powers puts your powers in doubt.

Not quite. You can reorient your body you make contact in a way that makes the toss in front of your body or besides your body but has you rotating into the ball. It is just harder to do for a pendulum serve unless you are doing something like Samsonov and people don't want to do it. Most...

Body rotation or hiding the serve? Body rotation is a huge part of getting spin on anything. One of the reasons the tomahawk and punch serves are so heavy is that they usually involve significant body rotation.

I have always felt you went too far embedding. Just posting the links is sufficient.

Maybe but not always. And the rule that enables those offenders is the one being violated. The Samsonov pendulum shows you can change your orientation if you really want to. But if people do not want to serve beside or in front of their bodies, you can't eliminate hidden serves.

She lost to Jeremy Hazin of Canada recently. The level.of the player matters and men are stronger then women. Women can compete sate in some cases with close to the table blocking and hitting but the strength and speed disparity can show up.

They have the same coach and try to do the same things. Wang Manyu just does them with more power.

There was a serve Ma Long did in the 6th game with a short Toss with the ball in full view throughout the serve. My point is that the players are aware of this issue. No one just wants to change. We just accept it as a matter of course.

I didn't count the crowd as a matchup. The disparity in crowd support was ridiculous.

The problem is that everyone plays injured. I mean, ZJK when he tried to make his comeback was injured and he still got to a World Tour finals in Japan (and lost deuce in the 7th to Harimoto). Boll is almost always injured - it is a running joke amongst some people that what would Boll be if...

Calling this one for Liang. Ma doesn't seem to have any consistent advantages in the matchups.

This plastic ball makes the step around forehand look stupid when you don't recover.