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For me a professional in something is someone who can make a living solely off of themselves, sponsorships and stuff count but off of your own career is the major guideline

The rate of input to output that you receive is not great and fair in my opinion.

Not really because there is levels to football. You can make it professional playing in national League which is the 5th league of England whereas in table tennis, your either the best or no one at all

I said earlier that professional in this context means active player that makes a living from themselves. Coaches and event managers etc don’t count. Also another thing is that the competition is almost the same as things like football. You got to take into account that this is the 1st or 2nd...

1000 players who make a living solely off of themselves in table tennis

In general, making a living out of table tennis would be what I categorise as professional . Also you can’t say given the amount of players because it’s the 5th most played sport in the world. Yes you could be national champion in somewhere like San Marino and be the best player there. You...

I watched a documentary insight into Crystal Palace’s academy and apparently only 0.2% of academy footballers make it to professional. That’s crazy low. 1 in 500 to be exact but with the amount of academy players there are, that equates to a lot of pros. Table tennis just isn’t the same...

You really still do at professional level

I know people who are race car drivers and have gone pro, there are a multitude of ways into professional motorsports like f1, f2, 3-4, rally etc. The list could go on forever. Maybe 100 differnt events each with 20 drivers means 2000 professional places in motorsports. And I bet they get payed...

I agree to a level because sprinters are incredible, it’s a sport that takes lots of dedication and hard work and you can still be limited by genetics no matter the work load. In terms of hardest to become no1 in the world or greatest of all time then it’s probably in my top 5 with pole vault...

Hard to say, because all the best CNT players put all their money from comps back into the federation therefore players like ma long and fzd may not be millionaires or definitely not during their careers. Most of the presumed millionaires of tt definitely made the majority of their money from...

Crazy!!!

I mentioned already that football has around 200,000 professional players whereas table tennis has less than 1,000. In terms of statistics, it’s much harder to be a professional table tennis player

As table tennis players, we’ve probably all wanted to be professional at some stage in our careers or imagine how it would be. We may of also thought the goal of being pro was achievable. It comes at no surprise though that it is almost impossible to achieve, no matter the ambition, the effort...

I’m not sure about that, any racket sport where serves win matches similar to tennis aren’t great to watch. As soon as someone develops an incredible serve that either isn’t returnable or pops up a 3rd ball, then it’s suddenly not a spectators sport. I understand that Felix and stuff are similar...

It’s not that I don’t like it, I just don’t see why the US can be more like the UK in terms of having a scorer every match. Makes matches feel more official. Less pressure on the impending nature of the score and its formal. Makes no sense imo but there’s many things to give credit to US...

Another thing to talk about when you don’t have an umpire is whether it plays on your mind or not. In my opinion, I struggle in a local league match when a place doesn’t have a scoreboard and someone just calls the score because I’m always thinking about whether they said the right thing or not...

Yes i totally agree as someone who also plays many local league matches in England. I’m a junior so I they aren’t my favorite thing in the world as sometimes in winter, I end up playing 2 a week plus 10+ hours coaching but progression and playing new players is important. Anyway, I feel like...

Also many people just get taught how to umpire and it’s passed on, everyone knows it’s necessary and so you can’t complain by doing it. Respect is a big thing in Europe around tt therefore everyone does what they are told and tries to make the game as fun and fair as possible. I love this side...

I have lots of videos where this happens but due to my age, it’s probs not responsible, I’ll try my best to find this in a local league match from someone else but there’s few people in England who actually record