Well said Tony , Table tennis is a fantastic sport and its more fantastic with chinese to be honest , They are the best like it or not , also Japan is improving everyday but has a very long way to be china in tt . But Now really people dont care about countries , we say Wow FZD vs Ma long what a game it will be , we never think about china vs china , If some one dont enjoy this game or as it was told china vs china so You really dont like Table tennis , cause you cant find a better final than china vs china . Fortunately china has started spreading table tennis love in every country . Im one of the people who got attracted to table tennis by watching Zhang jike and Wang hao rallies ...
Yeah
I think we need to be grateful that China is the nominating country at the moment,
As due to the huge population level as well as the wiliness of CTTA to "share", table tennis in the world has benefited from such race's love of table tennis. I'm not sure in TT history if Sweden, or Japan, or the earlier dominating countries did so much for other countries than China did
Yes, some parts it goes both ways, ie a "drop out" training partner has no future in TT in China, but can earn a good living as a coach in other countries
I still remember Saive's coach that stayed with Saive and treated him like his son and mentored him to become world champion. Saive even said without his coach, he wouldn't of gotten that far.
From what I see from USA (especially this thread is almost dedicated to USA juniors at WJC), all those are beneficiaries from Chinese coaches or sparring partners.
I have 1st hand info from TT bodies where China ambassadors are offering TT support to said nation
such nation didn't get any other support from any other country......
One can easily see the brighter side of this all China issue.
The one who wants to be sour, can just turn off the TV when its China vs China lol, you and me can enjoy it