White wine is always nice with fish and I have also use for it in my cheese fondue of course. I just finished my chicken red Thai curry and had added a good glug of red Shiraz to it to enrich the bouquet. Local market could not supply the lychees, had to put in pineapple pieces.
Agree - when enforcement comes in other sports be it football VAR (far fewer dives - why should a game be decided by pure cheating?) illegal tackles to the head (ice hockey - remove the faulting player for a number of matches ergo problem becomes way smaller). Enforcement is not perfect but having faults decide games at the decisive points? You loose interest and audience.
I think we will find that there will be LESS faults in the long term if players get the message that they should be serving legally. Of course that requires a short term where refs enforce the rules and players get that message and adjust.
I think i said it before : If one is not prepared to police them , then don't make any rules.
I think anyone watching usually gets a fairly good explanation of things from the commentators. If you can see the power direction and spin in rallys then it's pretty easy to understand why someone will use service to restrict your opponent in that regard.
Thats too prescriptive imo. TT is an artful and creative game and to restrict this would be a mistake. Restricting it this way would also make it very 'samey' and even more boring.
Maybe. But average folk don't watch TT on TV. Only fans watch TT on TV, you have to look for it. Average folk get into TT through school or a club that has a table where they learn to appreciate it (or not) through playing. In my experience at least.
Absolutely agree on this. If you make rules but then don't instruct your game umpires to enforce them your rules become meaningless and take relevance only in forum discussions like this.
The net camera with AI tracking would be perfect.
yeah, pro level needs to step up with technology and not using 1900 method to umpire.
Strictly speaking, it has to be visible from the point of view of the net posts, not just from the middle line. So what is required is 4 cameras. 2 on each net post x 2 = 4 total. Whenever the cameras lose sight of the ball then it is an illegal serve.
i can easily toss the ball and use my tossing hand to intervene in the view of the player until last moment when the contact will make
That you are not allowed to hide the ball with your hand/arm/body is already in the rules. That you are not allowed to serve when standing next to the table is not included in the rules of the game.i can easily toss the ball and use my tossing hand to intervene in the view of the player until last moment when the contact will make
for example having my playing arm below that of tossing hand and only pulling back my tossing hand when the acceleration of my playing arm goes out.
We train backhand serves to make it pass on grey line too
Usually in serious sports, umpires at every level are trained, validated and reviewed. Most of the people who commented on this match on YouTube cannot see the consistency in the refs approach to both players serves. Of course, you are free to find the people who have claimed this umpire as a hero as you purport since you like making unsubstantiated claims on behalf of other people to make yourself feel good.The above video posted by the popular table tennis net personality EmRatThich captures a match in the latest Europe Championship between two female players. The refs for the match probably was a hero in the eyes of our some forum members. The first serve the Romania player did was immediately called fault. Then he faulted her many times until the poor girl (some forum members probably would call her a cheater) in tears. The scene reminded me the similar situation in a past Olympic women's single final between two Chinese players. The 'cheater' in tears then was the grand slam winner Ding Ning who retired a few years ago.
EmRatThich had some comments and view on the illegal serve issue in our sport and similar to mine.
Women and men are differently when dealing with being faulted repeatedly. Some women will be so desperate and heart broken that they are in tears. Men will show anger and frustration but never in tears (some little boys might be exceptions). What some men do in situations like that? They usually fight back. Chen Weixing, a hot temped chopper, once in US Open, was faulted multiple times in a match. He was so angry that he threw his racket on the table and eventually he quit the match, as if his way of saying to the ref: 'You faulted my serves, I faulted my match!'
