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My theory is that he is tanking the doubles matches so that he can be the singles hero and get the ratings points.

You probably don't play at a high enough level to value the benefits of being low in TT. If comfort was what the top players were looking for, looping and bending their knees and practicing drills all day long is the last thing they would be doing, trust me. Starting lower than you are going...

It also helps you get into the habit of moving at the start of the point. You have more inertia to overcome from a still position.

Why a solution? Why not simply a concession to how many countries budget for the Olympics? The biggest stage for TT right now is the Olympics. IT is also true for gymnastics and a host of other events. If you want only teams to play that is fine. If you do not want to make any concessions...

The argument is silly. Remove the word "only", and the silliness of the argument reveals itself.

Sure, because you are always thinking about China. All the American sports you listed are team sports where there is only one country per sport (by the way, they would all love to be in the Olympics). In just about every individual sport out there, there is a limit of some kind on individual...

Whatever event you create, you have to limit the number of national entries into it. If creating more events allows for that sure. But it solved the problem in 2012 for Ovtcharov and in 2016 for Mizutani. Anyone who is pretending it did not solve the problem is just trying to be blind. The...

Which is why other countries like Germany have thin room for error. The people who do Olympic budgeting don't look at those details. They just say that there is no medal so they cut the budget. I remember them refusing to send Germans in tennis because they didn't expect medals.

I wish more people appreciated this when saying things like there should be 3 Chinese in the Olympics singles.

That was one of the best points I had ever seen. Watching it live, I had nothing but respect for both players.

He got a game. I missed the time so I got late to the match but that was all I wanted to see.

I have little doubt in my mind that if you replaced Ma Long with Xu Xin and Zhang Jike with Fan Zhendong, the results would have been the same other than that I can't tell you who will win the final.

Whenever you tell me what you are smoking, I will try it out too.

Jeoung Youngsik, Aruna, Mizutani and Ma Long. Hoping Xu Xin can do it next time.

Terrible mistake on the part of ZJK.

ML beat Zhang Jike almost as badly as he beat Aruna. CCY beat Aruna really badly earlier this year, so this is not about CCY playing someone he did not know. Even as people prepare for Aruna (and they did), the truth is that Aruna needs to play more top level players to get used to that speed...

Your post is funny to me. It is almost like you are writing about another sport. There is no really rallying in modern table tennis. Everyone is playing for 3rd ball or 5th ball attack. The average length of points during most TT matches is 3-4 shots. The point is whether a player is...

By the way, for people who do not know, CCY had beaten Aruna 4-0 the first time they played. The beating was so bad that Aruna told Bobrow that he felt like CCY just didn't let him play his game.

You have to start disguising these videos soon or the youtube filters will catch your videos and suspend you for violation. Put a border around the video or open a fresh account and put some . I love your work so don't take this the wrong way.

I think my careless statements make it unclear what I am saying. Ma Long will beat Aruna 40 times out of 40. But Aruna was playing at a level where it is reasonable to expect that he could have given someone like Dima or Freitas or Samsonov an interesting match. If you read my first post on...