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I recently faced a challenging match scenario that I believe many of you might have encountered. I was playing against an objectifly weaker opponent and managed to dominate the first two sets, going 2-0 up. However, my opponent then switched to a high-risk, high-reward strategy, and...

There are a few things to consider. Don’t approach a chop as if you “must” win a point outright by attacking. More important is placement there’s no shame in pushing à heavy backspin Yes Chops are often heavy backspin, so depending on your level, you should only attempt to open up a chop...

Well there’s also a factor to consider, skill level does not equal rating level at all… When playing for something, even something as silly as rating points, stress and pressure take another dimension completely.

Butterfly released a series of blades carrying my name (minus 1 letter)

I feel the argument “if no one around you plays Chinese rubbers, no one can help you develop” holds some truth though. I very briefly tried Chinese rubbers but could not physically, and I experienced something along those lines. My teammates tried to advise me but their advice was way more...

I haven’t tried but it should be possible to use the robot with the remote control no?

It's called externalising. Since you need to be calm to play well, some or most people benefit from venting after going through emotions/stress. See it as a sort of reset after a point. The problem is when externalising becomes too present, or frustration turns sour.

You normally try to flick these types of serves. However variation is key.

2 very good tips right there. I’d add, try to not be tense

He played well in the French national championship. Got to the semifinal where he got overclassed by Felix

Anyway, if your shot selection is not good, the ball doesn’t matter. The only obvious importance of type of table and ball, in my opinion for amateurs up to intermediates, is when you try to serve short. Or more generally when you try to keep the game closed. It’s much harder on faster tables...

if I remember correctly he just decided to not play league games next season. It is very well possible that this decision liberated him from quite some pressure.

To me yes, feels similar in my hand

I play YSE coming down from a ma lin carbon, and I can confirm that to me they feel very similar in the hand. I think your analysis is spot on if sweet spot is what you’re searching for. Be sure to match the weight though my ma lin carbon is 93 grams and my YSE 82

Or the normal Carbon. I play my matches with the Sweden extra, and also have a ma lin carbon, I feel they are very close in how they feel in my hand.

I find playing pips players an excellent benchmark for my ability to control my equipment. If I overshoot a lot , means I need to slow down and if I can’t pass the net I need to increase the speed.

I’d say any return that doesn’t set up your opponents game is good to a short serve. I always start with a preferred return. Lowest percentage of direct mistakes. Then if they do attack my preferred return I try to augment the quality of that return. (Placement, height, deception) and add variety.

Forest Gump :)

it can happen that someone playing in the higher teams of our club requests playing on a specific table for the simple reason that he will play a match later the weekend on that same table

I know table tennis is a whole lot more frustrating than playing guitar hahahaha. You cannot really lose playing guitar.