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Spin and more spin.
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Two interesting/fun facts about Richard Dewitt: .There have also been a hundred TT forum debates over the black shirt guy's rubbers being more than a little wore out, which is said to make it much easier for him to play with next to zero spin. I have played vs him twice in official tourneys (lost 1-3 both times) and confirm his rubbers are not ridiculous wore out to anti levels... they are worn uniformly... and not very worn. Why do players lose vs him? Answer is, he knows how to play TT very well, it is not his equipment.
1) I think it was in the early 1990s, but it may have been in the late 1980s, when Sweden was really #1 or #2 in the world, Richard spend a year or so, training in Sweden. Back then he was a two winged looper. .
2) One time I watched Richard play a series of games vs a 2500 level woman (I will leave the name out because it does not matter). They started with the 2500 level player spotting Rich something like 5 points and the deal was, every time Rich won, the spot would get lowered by a point and every time the 2500 level player won, the spot would go up a point. I think the 2500 level player won one game somewhere in there. But by the time they got to no points spotted, Rich had gotten so far inside this woman's head that she could not beat him without the spot.
That happened at a club in Manhattan that no longer exists. .
One more detail on what Der_Echte was talking about about how Rich creates dead balls so easily with Classic Offensive rubbers (Mark V).....Rich has amazing touch. Amazing.
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