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The article is kinda weird. Harimoto beat Zhou Yu who is also CNT. There is no winning formula, the key is what a player is able to execute given their skills and Harimoto's limited experience.

Amelie Solja may be there, she just wouldn't be seeded. And if she isn't at all, then Austria has more than 2 players better than her (Polcanova is definitely #1 but not sure whether #2 would be Liu Jia or Hamamoto). Polcanova and Petrissa can beat Szocs, I have no doubt in my mind about that.

China may have agreed to pull 5 players just to make the event more diverse and because of the national championships. Which 5 is open. I would have thought the 5 going would be DN, LSW, CM, WMY and ZYL because those are the players with a legit chance of playing in the Olympics.

Actually, in various ways, we do. No need to make it sound like we don't hear from the players themselves how much they practice dealing with her with the pips practice partners and how the pips players have gotten more prominence because of Ito's rise. Dealing with a threat successfully is...

First of all, people don't often define what they mean by hard or soft rubber. The original article was from a Japanese magazine and I am not sure they even defined hard or soft sponge or rubber. For example, is soft mostly about the sponge or the topsheet? Soft sponge is very different from...

I guess that closes the discussion of who are the candidates for men's singles on the men's side. Who did the CNT send on the women's side? That also says a lot.

No I haven't tried the P1. C1 is slower, lighter and easier to spin with than G1. Otherwise it is the same topsheet, just a softer sponge.

The other thing is that soft sponge is not the same as soft topsheet and hard sponge is not the same as hard topsheet. T05 has a hard topsheet. That is why it arcs thr ball so much. T80 is softer and T64 is softer still in terms of topsheet. T05FX has had topsheet with soft sponge. Fastarc G1...

Here is a Larry Hodges article that is at least partly related. https://butterflyonline.com/tip-week-serve-forehand-loop/

This is the first of a 3 or 4 video series that discusses the subject a little. https://youtu.be/NQpv4iDsYyk

Play handicap with a much better player and try to be consistent and see what happens. Your training hours will never match theirs, so you need to hit winners or fool them enough times to win the match. Yoass didn't rush that much he took the risk that was required to beat the player. Looking...

Probably a year thing. Ratings are usually valid for a year.

Yeah, the handicap was a clue, and I think with the handicap you played perfectly. Your win looks exactly like mine when I play handicap.

Didn't look bad to me. You have a very physical stroke with good quality. The main thing is that you like to smash, but I guess that dates you more than being a flaw since you land a fair amount of them even though you also miss a fair amount of them. We never got a chance to see whether...

I think the missing part of your analysis is what happens when Ding Ning is allowed to optimally prepare for a single event. She is going to the Olympics. She has done this twice already and knows what it takes. They will internally prepare her for Ito and defence. Nothing she can't handle...

It seems I could be wrong. I just re-read the document and saw line 3.1 (substitutions). But someone has to explain how it might work. If it does work the way I don't think it does, then they may allow Ito to replace anyone Japan removes because her ranking is high enough. But I don't think...

1) His overall technique is excellent. 2) He is more powerful than most players on any given day. 3) His consistency vs. foreign opposition. Yes, Ovtcharov, Harimoto and Calderano have beaten him once, but who else really? 4) The example of ML and the fact that ML is the only one that Fan...

https://ittf.cdnomega.com/eu/2019/02/MWC_WWC_QUAL_SYSTEM.pdf

The next player in the Continental cups takes over. Unless ITTF nominates a replacement in the wild card spot, there is no replacement mechanism in the sense that the spot belongs to Japan (it doesn't).

No. There is a whole selection process described in their qualification document based on placement in continental cups and ranking. You can't get in without playing the continental cup. Usually when China replaces, it is because they are pulling out either the World Champ or the top...