Is the OOAK poster Cobalt's hate worse than the robotNazi hatefest ? Re: Doubles anyone?

[Lowri]

on Saturday April 2026, 23:58
Personally I'd be happy if all doubles were scrapped forever.

I never thought I would see a more irrational hate in my lifetime than robotNazi hatefest againt pips

Did you have some sort of life altering incident in doubles or something? LOL

[Eesha Sharvari]

At the highest levels of the sport , I have seen some amazing doubles matches
If ITTF wants to promote the sport, they not only need just more men's and women's doubles but mixed doubles as well

[YUJA6]

It may be different in other countries where table tennis is more popular
But in places like USA , doubles is one of the best ways to ease players into the sport by reducing the intimidation level.
When I was involved in running clubs, the higher rated players helped out by playing doubles during regular club sessions.
Each team had a high level player and newbie.
This was not just only a way of teaching doubles rules and tactics.
More importantly it is an indirect way of coaching the newbies themselves.
But I know many players who hate doubles like Cobalt
There are also clubs / centers where doubles are not played at all.
As soon as a newbie walks in there is high pressure sales tactics to sell paid one on one coaching & $500 dumb rackets

[Rofeal]

But there are obviously lots of doubles haters at pro level too.
Doubles in WTTTC used to be always 3 by 3 singles . Best 5 out of 9
I am not sure if it was anything else long before that
Then in 1991 they had team ties of only 5 matches 4 singles and one doubles with I think each player limited to max 2 matches
Then they switched back to all singles either in 1993 or 1995

In doubles may give some chance for anyone to upset China especially in women
But I don't see ITTF ever bringing back doubles in team event
Though team event since it is a team effort & it makes sense to include at least one doubles or two with a best of 7 (5 singles+ 2 doubles) at least for semi-finals & finals...at least for more drama if anything else since doubles is more unpredictable.