She has her Olympic medals and has gone as far as her style can take her IMHO. She is still losing mostly to very top players so the level is about the same. Qian Tianyi when she was younger was the same level as Sun Yingsha, but since CNT isn't confident about either her or Kuai Man, but they need good lefties, they are investing time in them.
No, she trains in Germany 99% of her time. She does play for a Japanese team though from time to time.
the problem is that she loses to other players than Chinese players.
why is he an asshole but not his opponent? In tennis you must play to the server's pace, I dunno why it's not like that in table tennis, makes more sense than waiting for the receiver
He should just do his normal serve pace and check if his opponemt is ready. If his opponent is consistently not ready then he should complain to the umpire. Umpire may ask opponemt to play faster
too busy to learn, too difficult to learn, too much work after all that training, not confident enough to speak in front of a lot of people, don’t need to, won’t have to, doesn’t want to, being told not to, are encouraged but hate to do…
I think that's because a lot of players of other disciplines go West to train, while for TT many players go East to train.just was curious... watching others disciplines and seeing that in general there is such willingness to communicate a bit in English.
Ok, so there is no specific reason.... thanks!
Yokoi has a very nasty backhand topspin and it will be a while before we know here true level.
Chinese is by far the most spoken language in the world, so the Chinese may ask you the same question – why don't you communicate in Chinese? The answer you give will be the same as their answer.
Where is miwa in this event? Any reason she’s not playing as was really looking forward to seeing how she would have done.
i agree, she's still young and talented, everything is still possible. Ito has always said she wants to be creative and innovative to surprise her opponents. Which she does, but errors are too high because she hasn't time to perfect enough those new tactics/ shots. Maybe she will do some compromises / change her approach ?
