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I think an Ovtcharov-Tokic game was 32-34 or something like that. I know someone who played 32-30. None of this in doubles though.

I haven't played league in over a month but I figured that if I Want to play the PA states, now is as good a time as ever, more so since I played a tournament on Saturday last week. I was going to play last Tuesday, but we were snowed out. I got there for my matches about 20 minutes late, and...

If you record your serves from the POV of the receiver, which is important to do, the key is to look for the heaviest deceptive motion you can disguise and sell as things other than heavy underspin. For each individual, with their wrist speed and flexibility, that may vary. Practicing...

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He wasn't using Hurricane then... :D

Again, the question remains the same - you think he wasn't doing extensive work to fix his backhand before the equipment change? This is what people who are taking your position are continuing to ignore.

Please fix!

You made it sound like people who actually believed that Ma Long's backhand improved after changing rubber, including Ma Long himself, were simply buying into a commercial pitch. It's almost like you were willing to ignore that Ma Long had been working on his backhand for years. So I believe...

Why did Dima try to change from a perfectly working T05 to an H3 on the forehand?

Which did you do, bribe Austin or kidnap his dog? Well played.:p

And you think that before that, he didn't know his weakness was his backhand and he was drinking lemonade in the shade? His backhand was a good backhand. He had short stroke issues so he needed to make it better for close to the table rallying (Timo Boll still has similar issues). I initially...

I wish there was a thumbs down button for the last post. It's the kind of thing you write when you aren't even trying to understand what someone is saying and you just want to argue for argument's sake. Rainneverever's point is simple - there is no need to make special excuses for Zhang...

So you think he didn't practice his backhand before then? Really? I take him at his word that making his backhand rubber more like his forehand rubber did wonders for him.

So if the CNT coaches had been more competent earlier in Ma Long's career, he would have switched to Hurricane on BH and been a two time grand slam champion! :p

What he meant is that ZJK did not play well enough, bottom line, and that he was giving his usual effort, stop the excuses. You are attributing it to mental game, he is saying that Ma Long needs no such excuses. People keep on reading it as if he is saying ZJK's technique and strategy are not...

They always have - the Nexy balls have always been slightly harder and better, but not so much more than the best Yinhe or XSF balls. The DHS D40+ balls are uniformly excellently.

Road kill for a 2600+ player.

Most amazing two winged looping machine before the evolution of the modern Chinese.

Someone just took Larry Hodges's blogpost and turned it into a video.

Wang Hao had one of the best backhands in the world. You needed a really good backhand with good backhand footwork and transition to withstand him, which is why only ZJK could do it reliably.