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Groth is too good for anyone to shephered Calderano into the final. And Walther from Germany seems to have taken a quantum leap in form. This is overall a great tournament.

There is some truth to this but it is a bit overstated.

You guys are funny. A couple are members of the current junior national team prepping for the WJTTC event in South Africa. They didn't even play in the Under 21 event and most if not all of them lost to top 50 players on the fast track. China will be fine.

Isn't the potential ML-FZD match (really the Bayi-Shandong Weiqao match) this weekend?

Don't spend forever trying to get a leopard to change his spots. There is some degree of delusion tied to greatness, though such delusion without any achievement is quackery. Very thin line. In Archo's case, the line is not that thin, but I find that the delusional people really enjoy it -...

Thanks. It's really in this case driven by the need to modify behavior. It is extremely hard to modify behavior that has been engrained over a lifetime of TT, talk less of a couple of years. Look at my attempts to fix my elbow position which were helpful but largely unsuccessful. So I am...

The best way to do this is to go back to your basic backspin serve and work on the timing of your toss and your backswing. Toss the ball up and let it come on the way down before swinging into it. To make your brain see that this is possible, just toss the ball up and leave the racket there...

There is still room to go with practice, but I think you can see that your serve control has improved significantly. I saw one serve with extreme break and I saw the last one which was short topspin that your opponent popped up into your smash. With penhold, it is much easier to hide the wrist...

"Rocket" serve practice.

You played well, Boogar. But you need to bend your knees and loop and stop pushing those long balls, especially on your backhand.

The last two points were crazy! Damn lefty loop around the net...

Reverse serve.

League was tough yesterday - lost to the 10 and under US girls champ in 5 in my first match. Went up 2-0 but the serves stopped working and she consistently served fast deep serves to my middle (I have to work on that as I serve them to the corners). Then I lost to Big M as I shall call him...

Tricks aren't everything. The top penholders today dominate with one or the other, usually RPB. But JEff's explanation is the key. I don't know any player who does both who I fear for that reason.

It's interesting that people can beat him by lobbing and your conclusion is that tactics matter, even though you can't lob.

Why do you think traditional penhold has no crossover point? Because you haven't found it yet? Every grip has a transition point. You just have to find it and it isn't the same for every player.

Why is his punch so scary? Isn't it just another ball for you to loop? Why do you backhand loop into his punch? Can you place it short with heavy spin so he has to reach over the table to play it? Or can you back him up with depth? Or can you place it to his penholder elbow? Shot quality...

Assuming that you are 1500 with the ability to break 2000: A lot of tactical stuff assumes equal ball quality. But I will tell you that some returns and serves and blocks that I thought were good at 1500 are the same things I totally destroy at my current level. Once you learn good ways of...

Given that your backhand opener was your best shot in January 2016, I find this post mildly perplexing. IT would really help to see footage but giving you the benefit of the doubt... You need to sometimes recover after the serve into a two winged looping/backhand opening position. You may...

I like her playing style a lot. Very well rounded and much more versatile than most of the women. Zhu Yuling is not that different either.