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It's called a headband :-)

I find Harimoto obscenely irritating to watch for exactly this reason. Hopefully he will grow out of it. I feel as though he will follow the road Fukuhara went down and be superceded by some Chinese players in a few years time as they study his game and learn how to beat it...

Wow...was it close?

Didn't that happen quite recently and you lost? :P

Who did FZD lost to today? Losses in 3 consecutive rounds for him now....

Also, for those who think the sport is now 'better' or blanket state that the level of play of today's top players is higher, look at highlight clips like this: This match is from 1999 and easily has just as many exceptional rallies as any match you could find nowadays. And it's before most...

It can also be frustrating for pips users to lose to players who are lower skill level but know to do nothing with the ball and put everything to the pips over and over again and so can beat you by doing that (it is surprisingly difficult to play around if you cannot punish these shots very...

Watching clips off Joo from around 2003 makes me wonder whether, had he won that final against Schlager, he would have won more competitions. I just feel like whilst he is an amazing player, he has suffered from a lack of wins in international competition and perhaps having the booster of being...

Hi, There isn't a very large trend, but historically Chinese defenders have shifted to playing with short pimples rather than long pimples (Wang Xi & Hou Yingchao are good examples. as well as Wu Yang and Fan Ying on the women's side). This is because short pimples allow for a lot of variation...

FZD posts a loss for the second round in a row! Wow!

I'm going to go with 3 :-)

My main gripe is the difference between all the brands, as you say. May I ask what the changes to aspect ratio/pips density were and what this meant for top level play? I didn't know those were rules changes so would like to know more :D

The issue with higher net for defenders is that because backspin forces the ball to sit up once it hits the table the ball will be easier for top players to hit due to it having to be hit higher over the net. It won't make much difference at lower levels but at high levels it could be the...

As a defensive player, being incapable of punishing poor shots is one of my major failings, so I can confirm there is a lot of truth to this!

Can't beat Jike when he doesn't turn up! :cool: I'm hoping Ma Long comes away with this one - will be interesting to see how hard the Chinese go at it when they play each other given that to them this event doesn't seem to be that important...

Just change the angle so its less top down and so you can see the vertical height of the ball more. Then if top down is required at any point, switch back to it mid point, but don't have it as the default. If ITTV didn't use Flash Player, you'd be able to watch it via browsers on devices that...

Frictionless long pimps were exactly as they sound - long pimple rubber with no grip whatsoever. This meant the ball 'slides' down the pimples and the effect you got was greater...they weren't very popular at a top level because they were very easy to play against if you knew what you were doing...

From the ITTF AGM minutes this year: 'Proposed by Swiss Table TennisTest on Height of the NetTable tennis is a very attractive and spectacular sport as soon as there arerallies. Unfortunately, too many rallies are finished within the first 3 strokes.To reach the fixed target to become top 5...

I've not seen this specific thread come up before (I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong), but I thought it would bring up an interesting discussion: Of all the rule changes made to table tennis over the last 20 years or so, which changes would you keep, which ones would you reverse...

All I was saying was that it's a bit off to say Kreanga's forehand isn't that good when he has found success in such a large tournament. It may not be the best forehand - far from it - but it's certainly not a weak stroke, as he's demonstrated in the past. I never said he had the best backhand...