ittf
Lessons From 4,812 Rows of Unusable Table Tennis Data4,812 rows. That is the size of the tracking file I built over two weeks of...
World Hopes Week 2026: 36 children, 26 nations and a roster with no ranking pointsIn 2026, in Bangkok, I stood about two metres from an 18-year-old Filipino 40...
When a Dossier Contains Only One Label: The Verification Principle in Table Tennis AnalysisThree in the morning in Seoul. I open a 2.4-megabyte file and find exactly on...
Vietnamese Table Tennis and Its Biggest Fear: An Analysis Built on NothingLast night I reopened a table tennis analysis that ran dozens of pages. In th...
Nine Dimensions of Table Tennis Analysis: The Discipline of Saying "Insufficient Data"Saigon, a Saturday evening in late April. Inside a table tennis club tucked...
A Deep Table Tennis Analysis Returns a Null Result: The Gap Sits in the Ingestion LayerA nine-page report sat on the screen at two in the morning. In every field...
The Empty Cell in the Table Tennis Spreadsheet: When a Report Is Perfectly Formatted and Says Nothing6:12 a.m., Munich, January. Outside the window it is still dark and the...
Four Millimetres on the Rubber, 52 Weeks on the Ranking: Where Modern Table Tennis Is Really DecidedBefore every match on the WTT circuit, a racket is placed on an inspection...
Nine Analytical Dimensions and One Empty Table: When Table Tennis Data Vanishes Before Anyone Reads ItThree in the morning, the second monitor still lit. On it, a table with nine...
An Empty Table Tennis Dossier and the Discipline of the WriterOn the third night, I opened the table tennis dossier that had been sitting o...
Nine Blank Cells: The Data Void Beneath Vietnamese Table TennisIn March, a four-page scouting dossier landed on my desk about a young...
When the Table Tennis Data Sheet Returns Zero: Lessons From a Source-Less FileA nine-dimension analysis sheet. Nine sections, running from technique and...
Vietnamese Table Tennis: The Points Race and the Players Left BehindThe national championship final ended in the seventh game, 11-9. The beaten...
Professional Table Tennis: The Nine Dimensions of Analysis and the Discipline of the Data AnalystOn my desk in Seoul, the data column I need most during an evening analysis...
World Hopes Week 2026 in Sheffield: The Sediment Layer Beneath the Name MoregardSheffield, Monday morning. Inside the Elite Training Centre (EIS) — the place...
Sheffield and Hopes Week 2026: The Geological Layer Beneath World Youth Table TennisA few days ago, I sat in a small cafe in Osaka, rereading a Table Tennis...
World Hopes Week 2026 Returns to Sheffield: The Real Test Comes After the WeekSheffield is quiet this season. No ranking table, no WTT points, no prize mon...
Sheffield Hosts the Table Tennis World Again: World Hopes Week 2026 and the Lesson Behind the Repeat Hosting BidI opened my screen early in the morning to a short notice from Table Tennis...
Table Tennis England Launches a Technical Officials Academy: Seven Regional Hubs and the Retention ProblemOn an afternoon at a youth qualifying event, table six stopped for nine...
When Broadcast Rights Become a Sedimentary Layer: ETTU and Dyn Chart a Course to 2028When Broadcast Rights Become a Sedimentary Layer: ETTU and Dyn Chart a Course...
40 Spots in Sheffield: How World Table Tennis Builds Its Talent Pipeline from Age TwelveA list of forty names. Twenty boys, twenty girls, all born in 2026 or later....
From the 38mm Ball to a Rolling 52-Week Ranking: Four Rule Changes That Repriced Table TennisOn October 1, 2026, the diameter of the elite competition ball rose from 38mm...
Table Tennis and the Trap of Unverified NumbersA late-October afternoon in Shenzhen, a young colleague slid an analysis draf...
The Empty Cell in the Analysis Grid: When Table Tennis Is Measured by SilenceThe screen in front of me was a table. Not a scoreboard, not a ranking list,...
Table Tennis and the Trap of Empty AnalysisThere is a moment I have witnessed again and again in more than thirty years...
World Table Tennis in the WTT Era: Points, Power and the Data VoidWorld Table Tennis in the WTT Era: Points, Power and the Data Void Hook: the...