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I thought calling fault was ridiculous. If you gave me 5 minutes, I could find 5 other people playing in the same tournament whose serves are illegal yet nothing is done about it. Umpires are picky about some players and let other players get away with highway robbery. This is one of the...

If I were your coach, I would work on your technique and not your fitness. Furthermore if you didn't play for six months, I would wonder how committed you are to going from whatever your level is to whatever level you want to go to. I would also comment that any time in the gym is wasted and...

Also the level in some of these Chinese events are insane. You would need to be in the upper upper tier of Euro players to go to these events and have a chance of winning. There are a lot of ex-CNT players and people who refused to join the CNT for whatever reason, who do well in these events...

You will not like this comment, but you just need to play A LOT MORE. If you play for hours and hours, you will eventually figure out ways for your body to apply power to the ball and your hand feeling and instinct will allow you to make the shot more often. However, that is not what you want...

I stand corrected. I have friends in mainland China making 150k a year playing locally and in the super league. In America coaching is the way to go for pure profit. Still the people I know making money in China are ridiculously good players. I know many "reasonably" good players making 6...

If your home organization/country doesn't foot the bill for WTT events, you better have a large fortune to finance yourself with the goal of ending up with a small fortune. The easiest way to earn a living from table tennis is through coaching unfortunately.

I tried to explain to you where the 2% number came from. If you want to be nit-picky, it is 2.5%. Let me try again. Suppose someone has a rating of 2200. He plays someone whose rating is 2400. Their rating difference is 200 points. The USATT has decided that if the lower rated player...

OMG I cannot believe people are still claiming a 2200 player has a 20% or 25% chance to win against a 2400 player. Have you ever seen a 2400 player play a 2200 player? It is usually a massacre. Forget that though. The rating system is designed to be stable in the sense that if an 2200 player...

One more extremely important thing: if you play someone who usually beats you, then try your best to keep the score close. If they get a lead they will relax and you are probably doomed. If you can keep things close, unless they are professional, their nerves will kick in and then you have a...

1) try to win 2) if you cannot win, try different things and see what works best. Probe for weak areas. 3) use the data you learn from #2, the next time you play them again

There is absolutely no way a 2200 player has a 20% chance of winning against a 2400 player. According to the USATT's own website, if the 2200 player wins, he gets 40 points. If the 2400 player wins he gets precisely 1 point. If both players level's stay static, one would expect that the 2400...

Cmon no way? WAY BRO! If you upset someone around 250 points higher than you, you get 50 points. If they beat you they get 1 point. They have to beat you 50 times in a row to get back those 50 points. So if everyone's level stays stable that means they can lose once for every 50 times they...

In the USATT system, a 250 points advantage means you should at least beat the other player 50 times in a row before they win once. Upsets are far less common the higher the rating as the playing is more stable. Would Ma Long or FZD beat the 2800 rated players 50 times in a row if they were...

You can watch the matches on the MaLong Fanmade channel. You can see the results here: https://tabletennis.media/tournaments/2025-chinese-super-league/

I think in their primes I would rank them: ML, ZJK, FZD and finally WCQ. WCQ is still young though and could keep improving and getting more steady.

When the ball was placed to your forehand with underspin you pushed down the line once and you looped down the line once and you won both of those points. Unfortunately when the ball came to your backhand, you hit the ball cross court where he was waiting for you. Go down the line more...

She can. She plays really well.

Fairies Wear Boots is a great Black Sabbath tune. Table tennis players do not wear boots when playing. You also look like you are wearing knee braces, so wearing boots while playing is doing even more damage to your knees as well. He served wide to your forehand and fast to your backhand...

One thing to take into consideration is that LGY had to play WCQ if he won. WCQ puts fans in the seats and I would not be surprised if LGY would be ordered to lose the match if they played. WCQ certainly is capable of beating LGY if they play for real and I am certainly capable of being wrong...

While I agree you should encourage all students to loop long serves, or even loop kill them, telling a 1900ish student to loop hard against half long serves is a horrifically bad idea. They probably cannot tell if the ball is half long or going to bounce a second time on the table. If you want...