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Very well put. Thanks to the development of table tennis rubbers designed to end a point as quickly as possible, and speed glues then boosting oils enabling players to do just that, table tennis has become a chess match consisting of a pawn to king 4 opening then and too often, so it would appear to the spectator, a checkmate. Points too seldom blossom, but are cut down before they've a chance to flower.
This does not make, in my humble opinion as someone who has played competitive table tennis for 45 years, for a particularly attractive or interesting or even strategic sport, unless you're idea of an attractive and strategic sport might be something along the line of a basketball slam dunk contest.
Moreover, the interplay of attacking and defensive techniques, long gone from top level international play, has left table tennis badly unbalanced, to the detriment of the possibilities implicit in the sport, the virtual disappearance of all-round play, and the potential for appreciation as to how table tennis might (once again) be played by anyone caring to watch its best players play.
In summary, table tennis has become, and presently is, a two-tiered sport, one tier for professional and competitive players who fancy that the game belongs to them, and the other for "hobbyists", "recreation players", call them what you will. And the gulf between them is wide, and cannot begin to be bridged unless a reason can be given for noncompetitive players to learn to play competitive table tennis as they might like to (how?) and appreciate professional table tennis played more as sport and less as an attempt to play Chopin's Minute Waltz in forty-five seconds.
I can't understand your last sentence. The part: " appreciate professional table tennis played more as sport and less as an attempt to play Chopin's Minute Waltz in forty-five seconds. "
I believe running, swimming, etc. IS like playing Chopin's Minute Waltz in forty-five seconds, but they're still sports (and I don't like watching them).