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I wrote about my views on the FZD move here but TLDR I think it's great for the global development of the sport, on many levels– the revenue he will generate would be great for the Bundesliga, and will trickle down Germany's club ecosystem, it will give his international teammates and opponents...

Probably because Kawakami won the u19 world youth championships

I suspect that they will try to freeze FZD out as long as he is not playing WTT tournaments, but it might well reach a point where they will have no choice if results are extremely bad....

Sharing as this doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet in this forum–the five guys picked are Wang Chuqin, Lin Shidong, Liang Jingkun, Zhou Qihao, Wen Ruibo https://pingarena.com/article/article_1772551506571 https://www.news.cn/sports/20260228/6e6f02ccc3ee44d48b26d86943e919be/c.html...

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Both LYJ and WCQ rely on the serve-receive-third ball attack phase to set up their tactics, WCQ has that monstrous forehand, while LYJ relies on his backhand flick and his backhand. But WCQ is very comfortable on his backhand as well, and so on backhand-backhand rallies WCQ fares okay plus he...

I think I vaguely recall seeing referees overturn decisions after the players agreed that the point was awarded wrongly on edge balls and things like that, but I can't remember specific examples.

Of course its not that simple, but that's why its an interesting thought experiment!

Imagine you are a pro table tennis player. In a high stakes game would you give your your opponent a free point if the referee gave the opponent a red card that you think is unfair? It happened in the Singapore Smash match between Izaac Quek/Koen Pang vs Horacio Cifuentes and Santiago Lorenzo...

Awesome, look forward to it!

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Apologies! For some reason the link is broken, but will send it over once its fixed 😅 EDIT: link fixed! https://pingarena.com/article/article_1770966878502

Obviously the release is targeted at recreational players, but I've always wondered why table tennis equipment brands don't do more cross-over collabs like basketball sneaker brands do, like Nike with SpongeBob, and the Spacejam LeBron's. I do remember Butterfly had a crossover with the minions...