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comparing TT with Tennis is silly.
Tennis didn't get a bigger ball. Tennis players didn't need to change training routine.
Back to TT, as this is the core here and for you all to realise what happened.
When the 40+ ball came to be, injury already started. And due to that physical training has increase few folds compared to before.
Players also (other than Japanese - whom are mostly younger than your world wide crowd) started to take part in less world tours.
In the same time - more and more club tournaments surfaced around the world. The Chinese didn't take part in too many of these, but your other top players sure did - T2, Indian Super league etc etc.
Overall the past 3 years saw more TT in the top players body - tournament/training etc then ITTF started to complain and we know the effect.
As I posted before - Cheng I Ching is still so young and forever in treatment. But she didn't miss any scheduled tournament.
Most of the time, she is playing with the aid of a medical staff (sponsored by the government to travel with her).
Table Tennis is not like your tennis. Tennis you do good in 1 year = the career earnings of your Top TT athlete - or maybe of the entire top 20's career added together
TT players does train more for lesser $
Its not comparable....
The rule changes all makes the "better player" weaker, thus they must work harder and harder than before.
Yes, Ma Long and ZJK has been playing for 25 years and they body are broken now.
But at the same stage Ma Lin (top footwork guy compared to the past 3 generation of CNT players), WLQ, WH retired with not much injury.
Now your ML, ZJK, TB, Dima all carrying injuries.
It is a fact that many national coaches agree the new ball is causing Injuries - I have spoken to a few personally over the past 2 years
During Portugal's Open, I think I saw about 4 or 5 players retired or injured.... I think that might be a record
Tennis didn't get a bigger ball. Tennis players didn't need to change training routine.
Back to TT, as this is the core here and for you all to realise what happened.
When the 40+ ball came to be, injury already started. And due to that physical training has increase few folds compared to before.
Players also (other than Japanese - whom are mostly younger than your world wide crowd) started to take part in less world tours.
In the same time - more and more club tournaments surfaced around the world. The Chinese didn't take part in too many of these, but your other top players sure did - T2, Indian Super league etc etc.
Overall the past 3 years saw more TT in the top players body - tournament/training etc then ITTF started to complain and we know the effect.
As I posted before - Cheng I Ching is still so young and forever in treatment. But she didn't miss any scheduled tournament.
Most of the time, she is playing with the aid of a medical staff (sponsored by the government to travel with her).
Table Tennis is not like your tennis. Tennis you do good in 1 year = the career earnings of your Top TT athlete - or maybe of the entire top 20's career added together
TT players does train more for lesser $
Its not comparable....
The rule changes all makes the "better player" weaker, thus they must work harder and harder than before.
Yes, Ma Long and ZJK has been playing for 25 years and they body are broken now.
But at the same stage Ma Lin (top footwork guy compared to the past 3 generation of CNT players), WLQ, WH retired with not much injury.
Now your ML, ZJK, TB, Dima all carrying injuries.
It is a fact that many national coaches agree the new ball is causing Injuries - I have spoken to a few personally over the past 2 years
During Portugal's Open, I think I saw about 4 or 5 players retired or injured.... I think that might be a record
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