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Bullseye. The concept of purely grazing the rubber is a useful misconception - how would you project the ball forward if you didn't have impact with the wood, even when serving? You just experiment with degrees and get to a point of acceptance. But getting too theoretical will not do anything...

Just look at the difference in mastery of the rally between Dima and Boll. The old school players know how to move choppers around. The new school just try to kill the ball as often as possible. The Chinese just make everything blurry.

I may be wrong but I will always trust Timo vs. chop. He just plays fundamentally well.

Let's assume you are right - where did you get the concept of overloading the topsheet from? I have only read that precise phrase on one website and I have never seen a very good player discuss it. In any case, please take your stuff elsewhere. Chit chat is for chit chat, not for Archo's new...

No one uses pure power - it's just a myth. But the best guy against chop by a mile is Xu Xin. I think LGL didn't want to bore Chinese viewers with Joo vs XX and he wanted to challenge Ma Long and ZJK with the first two matches. They both delivered in the end.

He should be using Bluefire M1 Turbo but he is stubborn and loves Tenergy. Dima's forehand acceleration is tremendous. There aren't many people in China if any with more powerful forehands. BTW, I am being silly here.

Two smart returns to the forehand. Dima realized that the forehand is less dangerous from the forehand side. Dima does it. Lee Sang Su feels encouraged...

Dima can do it too - he just doesn't have the right equipment and he hasn't practiced with Joo as much or read him as well. The new ball has also reduced some of Dima's leverage.

Part of the problem, Archo, is that you read a lot and you try to sound like a good player. You need to realize that good players rarely if ever speak about these things. If someone is supposedly overloading the rubber, their stroke is wrong. It's that simple. It's why I laugh when people...

Joo has switched to No-spin and Dima is not reading it.

None of it is going to be insightful to a high level player. It's just whether it is technically correct and conveys the right sense of wonder about what is going on. And I think they have done a good job of that in what I am seeing if it is the same guys that NBC is using.

Of course, in this match. It is the 4th or 5th match I am talking about. JSH can't play doubles so you know that Dima is going to play Lee Sang Su and Timo will play JSH if it gets to that.

The commentary was actually pretty good compared to some of the other stuff we have gotten all week - they at least conveyed the right level of ignorance and amazement about many things and I appreciated that - other commentators are just lost. Only Ian Marshall knows anything about TT. Steger...

No, he wants to guarantee that Timo will play Joo.

It's hard to address any of this without videotape.

Ding Ning lost a match to Mima Ito and Liu Shiwen lost to Doi Hoi Kem. This is clearly evidence they both suck.

It's really whip mechanics and some long limbs. I can't overemphasize how much you can get out of whip mechanics if you focus on them. Right now, I need to build in some better recovery as well.

I don't know if she was technically superior - she was the most powerful female player. The edge that gave her showed in a lot of situations. But I think Chen Meng, if she gets her head together, can rival that. Solja possibly can if she lose some weight to improve her mobility.

Whenever you want it to be complete. Not everyone boosts the same way or enjoys the same level of boosting. You just do it and see if you like how the paddle plays.

It was probably 75% your pace with 25% my pace and timing. Hitting the ball hard is really overrated at the lower levels. All you need is someone with good touch and movement to bring the ball back. Being able to place the ball is much more important, though as the levels of athleticism get...