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The lefty is a factor. When your forehand is always going naturally into the chop, you are making most of your loops in your preferred direction. There are left handers who do not play chop well, but note that this also helps Boll vs. choppers and Chen Qi too.

On the power thing, the element that Xu Xin has isn't so much the power, but that he can repeatedly sidespin into the chop. This is much harder to consistently get action on for the chopper. Finally, his defence is good enough to contain Joo when Joo switches. Even Ma Long acts surprised when Joo attacks. For Xu Xin, hee expects Joo to attack because Joo has no chance.

My guess is no. Beating chopper is not about power. It is about control and being able to set up the chopper, then power. Xu Xin has extremelu conaistent set up shot.

Edited by NextLevel - 10/06/2014 at 3:09pm

I like the jumping cat analogy!

But, think about this:

1. No other team compartmentalizes / robotisizes the kinds of strokes their players (right from when they're very young) may or may not use as much as the CNT does
2. While designing what strokes their players should use, the CNT coaching brass probably put effectiveness over elegance
3. The CNT head women's coach, in my opinion, had more elegant strokes than the CNT men's head coach

All's I'm sayin' is: give them the benefit of the doubt - they probably know what they're doing & we minions probably just don't know the 'Why'.

Edited by slevin - 10/06/2014 at 3:29pm

slevin wrote: All's I'm sayin' is: give them the benefit of the doubt - they probably know what they're doing & we minions probably just don't know the 'Why'.

Edited by assiduous - 10/06/2014 at 4:49pm

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If FZD had got that point who knows maybe he could have won the match. He would have won at 11-8 instead of getting to deuce. Maybe that would have boosted his confidence just enough to win the next game.

Have you seen Timo Boll not shake hands after the match? He's as good a sportsman as you will find. 

igorponger wrote: LET'S LIVE AND SEE... Just communicated with a celebrity boy, Kirill Tarasenko 16yo, participant for Kazakhstam Noc at the Asian Game table tennis events. He confirmed that the ball in use was CHAMPION celluloid Korea-made. The ball to be scarcely found someplace on Europa-America market, but on Asian region markets only. I admire very much to see if XU Xin is good enough to gain a golden glory with hard plastic DHS as much as he did with celluloid mild-soft meterial.    World Men's Cup oncoming next week will be an answer.

so,you means there still using 40 ball?not 40+ ball

nittakuball wrote: so,you means there still using 40 ball?not 40+ ball

Yes. XX will be remembered as the last winner of celluloid era.

Does table tennis umpire need to pass any stringent eye sight and hearing test? Most are not young by the look. With today's technology I do believe it is needed to maintain fair play without any human error intervention. An international level game's outcome should never be relying on one's integrity or words.

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Edited by janus700 - 10/08/2014 at 10:09am

Can't thank you enough janus700!

Any theory why Fan ZD performed so poor in this round?

skip3119 wrote: Machine_Head wrote: Can't thank you enough janus700! ======================== Me too.

The Observer wrote: Skip, I was talking about why Fan Zhendong lost to two lowly SIN players.

Edited by skip3119 - 10/08/2014 at 10:50pm

Ma long and ZJK are likely in the LGL's list for the next Olympic game. He would probably pick XX or FZD depending on their performance. XX and FZD are likely in the 2020 Olympic games. One of ML and ZJK might have retired at that time.