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While the toss is high and the serve was more passable at one time, the ball crosses from one half of the court into the other before being contacted, giving a sideways impact that helps the amount of spin generated since the racket is coming into the ball. Umpires have faulted him for it...

He made a lot of changes using his backhand a lot more on serve and serve return and even using it on rallies where he has practiced using forehands. You need to realize that after two games certain patterns have formed and Lin got comfortable but Dima started violating them. The games were...

I don't agree. My experience in table tennis say that a best of 7 allows your opponent to make adjustments and read your game better so what worked earlier might not work later. But thanks for your interesting perspective.

He didn't choke. He got beaten by an illegal tomahawk serve.

Since Niwa won every game he won by a 2 point margin and Dima won every game by more than That, the scores don't agree with You, even if your eye test may be right ( and I don't think it is). I felt thst Dima got unlucky on too many deuce points.

That was what I meant. Great match.

Timo!!

This is becoming embarrassing - Fan using the Infinite Viscaria is not Fan using DHS FB....

Pretty much sums it up, yes.

He is, but no point calling him out. Harimoto and Niwa won a lot of games at deuce. Dima has only played one bad game the whole tournament, his game 6 vs Harimoto. But he has pretty much dominated both matches despite the deceptive score lines. I hope he just gets luckier in those margins if...

Current rankings... 1. JeffM 2. Confiscate 3. ttmonster 3.5 Boogar 4. OSP (no match, but at least practiced in the club) 5. MichalZ (not a club match but a match) 6. suds79 (entry posted a month ago)

From what I hear, during match broadcasts on CCTV, the commentators criticize the forehand techniques of Boll and Mizutani often enough.

Good Technique is also the cause of injuries so it is good that your coach is giving you safe technique. Safe technique is not necessarily the same thing as good technique depending on the individual. Jimmy Connors doesn't play table tennis. In fact, you hear some people mocking good players...

Your likes against mine, buddy!

No, great technique doesn't get bad press. The points made by "opponents" of good technique just reminds you that perfect technique may not be that much better than good technique in its output, and that other things likely play a larger role in world class success than technique despite the...

Timo Boll and Dima are the best players in Europe. Do they have the best technique in Europe? Mizutani is the best player in Japan. Does he have the best technique in Japan? Good technique has to check the boxes. But what makes great players great is rarely about their checking the boxes ...

People just have fewer doubts and arguments about what they are used to. Everyone knows that in every sport, #1 in the world is not always the same as the best player in the world. But getting to #1 ranking is usually an achievement to celebrate regardless. When Timo Boll was #1 in the world...

I fully empathize with Tom in more ways than he will ever know. The best part of many of these youtube posts is getting to see the commenters play if they ever let you see them. It makes you take them less seriously in general.

He beat Koki Niwa yesterday/today. Case closed.

My arguments are not serious arguments, my arguments are because you are acting like anyone saying something about Ma Long is the devil. Take a chill pill. Dima hadn't beating Fan Zhendong before they played last month, so whose fault is it that Dima hasn't played Ma Long this year? Before Ma...