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Yes, just make a fuss if it is not allowed etc... would have been worth a try. You would never win by playing nice all the time. Sometimes you gotta be nasty lol

He should have challenged unless he was out of challenges....

Miwa came so close! What a shame about the missed FH at 10:10 in the 7th but she really brought some heavy artillery with her and played an amazing match. Especially the chiquita play was seriously dangerous and reminds me of the ZJK playstyle. Wang Manyu really had to go insane defence mode to...

Great match from Sabine to win against Lee Eun Hye - she looks like she is a lot more comfortable chopblocking with the anti now repeatedly and not just pivoting blindly. Anders Lind challenged the serve for hiding with head - pot calling the kettle black?

What a big FH Sora has! When his FH is on he is a bit unstoppable. Sora's FH is on Wang Chuqin level of threat especially on that 3rd ball, it just looks nasty af to defend. Xiang Peng made the mistake of pushing long too much to him - should have stuck to more short pushes (but that is easier...

If they use rubbers with terrible spin production, they basically can't produce quality backspin pushes. So you don't need to respect the backspin as much as you would against spinny rubber players. Why not just do drive loops (going forward) instead of taking the ball late and slow looping it...

It is all about serve and receive lol. First thing is knowing how to loop the super wide FH corner serve and be able to come back to rally even if it gets blocked to the BH, if you can't do that the opponent can simply serve pendulum wide to your FH and then redirect to your deep BH and you are...

Nah if I go penhold I will go in Felix Lebrun style ie full RPB and penhold. I suspect with penhold RPB it just doesn't work well with middle balls, you just have to use FH like a true penholder. But this is something weird to adjust to

Buy some anti for BH (max spin reversal) and a super slow tacky rubber on FH (max spin). Nasty af setup in the right hands.

Yes - i discussed this before here but this is one of the strongest amateur styles (LP/inverted twiddling Cpen) imo (which I've seen can even take down some pros). I know their weaknesses now but it is always easier said than done to exploit it.

i have no idea what happened - he was missing everything and couldn't make a high quality loop to save his life, not from the BH or from the FH - I think he wasn't brushing the ball sufficiently at all. Weird af imo. Tbh Xiang Peng didn't even do anything particularly impressive this match, he...

I actually tried penhold a bit yesterday lol. RPB and FH all have more naturally open angles compared to shakehand so that was definitely something to adjust to. I kept overshooting the table. But the spin quality is comparable to what I get with shakehand. Penhold is a backspin killer -...

Usually he misses a lot of his big FHs and BHs and loses. This tournament they were pretty much all landing...

Lee Sang Su omfg he is playing like an absolute beast now. Big FH and big BH. Guy be like "go big or go home". He is so fit physically that it seems like he is still 20+ lol.

The thing about this is that with penhold there is no positioning weakness, you can literally cover the whole table with LP easily. Whereas with shakehand BH LP this is impossible, there are still ways to force him to defend on the non LP side which is usually the big weakness, and defending on...

Slow tacky rubber is really amazing in the hands of a good blocker, I would definitely recommend it to older players who don't want to switch to pips.

Practiced quite a bit of FH loop today against the nightmare blocker in the club (he blocks using tacky rubber randomly with no spin, sidetopspin and even sideunderspin which makes the 2nd loop really difficult). Because he uses slow af tacky rubber, he can even randomly block short which is...

Yeah, double inverted won't do it at this age, you will just get bullied. Gotta go for LP or Anti lol

My BH really improved heaps after learning Ti Long's 2 finger lever arm for brushing. This allowed me to create huge spin at will even when I'm out of position. And I can switch this on and off at will so it became a real weapon for me. So opponents can face a flat shot, then suddenly heavy...

LYJ is finally taking the ball earlier on his FH and more willing to be more aggressive on his FH and also taking better timings. Previously his FH somehow is always late (probably due to his extreme BH stance) so it was a huge weakness if the opponent repeatedly targets his FH with pressure. He...