Why did Liu Guoliang win everything while Matt Falck & Mima Ito are failing ?
Posted: September 21st, 2025, 3:56 pm
Do you think it is because Liu Guoliang twiddled more ?
Do you think , Mima Ito & Matt Falck become like Johnny Huang on steroids and still win everything by twiddling .
In Mima Ito’s case her big problem , as Deng Yaping pointed out, could be her using wide pips on backhand ?
Would she be better off at least using some sort of medium pips >
This may also be an unfair comparison because , given that Liu Guoliang was a HPG player , had almost twice more control compared to European grip players like Mima Ito & Matt Falck.
It even made wonder if someone like Zoran Kalinic would have been better if he had pioneered the HPG and used wide pips & inverted instead of just only inverted rubber. Kalinic was difficult to play against even with just inverted because of his amazing touch and table control . Ther may be few others both shakehand & penhold.
One that comes to mind is Wang Tao. I do not know what wide pips Wang Tao use but frictionless pips like Butterfly Resilon were approved during his time.
Of course I am only talking about pro players here and of course wide pips definitely not a backhand rubber for amateur players most especially choppers At least unless you twiddle a lot.
Then again it also makes me wonder why no top anti backhand player twiddles a lot and use the anti on forehand and fake loop (if they use spinny inverted on forehand)
Of course it would be interesting also to see Ayhika Mukherjee fake loop with anti on forehand or see Sutirtha Mukherjee real loop using here backhand spinny inverted rubber on her forehand (Sutirtha may have some powerful loops , if I can guess watching some Nigerian women players with similar build)
Do you think , Mima Ito & Matt Falck become like Johnny Huang on steroids and still win everything by twiddling .
In Mima Ito’s case her big problem , as Deng Yaping pointed out, could be her using wide pips on backhand ?
Would she be better off at least using some sort of medium pips >
This may also be an unfair comparison because , given that Liu Guoliang was a HPG player , had almost twice more control compared to European grip players like Mima Ito & Matt Falck.
It even made wonder if someone like Zoran Kalinic would have been better if he had pioneered the HPG and used wide pips & inverted instead of just only inverted rubber. Kalinic was difficult to play against even with just inverted because of his amazing touch and table control . Ther may be few others both shakehand & penhold.
One that comes to mind is Wang Tao. I do not know what wide pips Wang Tao use but frictionless pips like Butterfly Resilon were approved during his time.
Of course I am only talking about pro players here and of course wide pips definitely not a backhand rubber for amateur players most especially choppers At least unless you twiddle a lot.
Then again it also makes me wonder why no top anti backhand player twiddles a lot and use the anti on forehand and fake loop (if they use spinny inverted on forehand)
Of course it would be interesting also to see Ayhika Mukherjee fake loop with anti on forehand or see Sutirtha Mukherjee real loop using here backhand spinny inverted rubber on her forehand (Sutirtha may have some powerful loops , if I can guess watching some Nigerian women players with similar build)