I am just thinking, are you Japan hater or what? I am really tired reading how ishikawa or mizutani miserable are. Team competition is something different, you need the team spirit which is sometimes more important then level of players. Nobody doubts that england and china team spirit are ones...
I believe she learnt it from Kenta who is using this kind of serve for about 15 years. There are many short movies on YouTube showing young Kenta serving
Too late ? Depends where are you and what is your aim. Isikawa aim I think is to be best player besides chinese and now she is. Remember when few years ago she could not finish the match to lower ranked player and was crying all the time. Now she is very different very strong and somtimes...
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That is also interesting that japan sent Matsudaira who now is very predictable and is no threat for chinese or german players. I think Yoshimura, Ueda or even Masataka would make a difference. By the way Masataka has one of the best wining ratio in German League.
I wonder what happened to Tristan Flore, he had great matches against top player (3:4 against Ma Long) and now suddenly I do not see him playing.
Of course his main weapon was serves, even Ma Long could not keep them short but anyway I liked his style
Can anybody please explain what is all about? Previous world no 1 loosing to someones unknown who do not even play in china super league?
I see those players have great spin on the serves
It is really difficult to help because you are amateur and we can find hundreds of mistakes you do, but in my opinion you should concentrate more on the following points.
1. slower your setup if it is off, you should have maximum all+
2. never chop the long ball coming into your forehand
3...
Zjk had a long way and he can run to jump high, try to do it the same way as mattenet. I was training high jumps long ago and believe me that what mattenet did was much more difficult to do.
That is true. Maybe it is because it was second time in a row when he faces chinese top player just in second round. I remember he was fighting well at the Olympics with Ma Long.
Mizutani is trying hard although he is making some mistakes with his FH strokes. But Ma Long is just too good - serve, receive, backhand. I do not think anyone can stop Ma long wining german open.