Kim Han-gilKim Han-gil
A Nine-Section Report With Zero Lines of DataLast week a nine-section file landed on my desk. Full headings. Full tables....
The Fourth Touch: Where Korean Table Tennis Wins and Where It LosesFebruary 2026, BEXCO, Busan. I sat in the eleventh row from the table edge,...
The Invisible Gap: A Tactical Autopsy of the Paris 2026 Olympic Men's Singles Table Tennis FinalOn August 4, 2026, at the Paris Sud Arena, the third ball of Fan Zhendong's...
Jorgic survives seven-game thriller in Ljubljana: when the scoreline hides the match's real mechanismGame six. Score 2-3. Darko Jorgic stood behind the table, and the ball skidde...
Paris 2026: China Swept All Five Table Tennis Events, but Moregard Rewrote the Tactical QuestionIn the fourth game of the Paris 2026 Olympic men's singles final, Truls...
Jorgic Survives Seven Games in Ljubljana: The Two-Tier Architecture of a Tournament ReportThe eleventh ball of the deciding game left the table with an awkward sidespi...
The Gap After the Loop: The Table Tennis Data Map the Camera ForgetsAt the men's singles final of Paris 2026, I sat two meters from the screen, a...
The World No. 1 at Paris 2026 and the Limits of the WTT RankingOn July 30, 2026, at the South Paris Arena, Wang Chuqin — the player then...
Jorgic survives dramatic seven-game battle as leading contenders advance in LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia – The opening night in Ljubljana witnessed one of the mos...
Protected Points and a Ledger of Debt: How the WTT System Is Redrawing the Table Tennis Map of China and the RestProtected points are two words no spectator wants to hear, yet they decide th...
After Paris 2026: South Korea's Young Table Tennis Talent and the Chinese SystemOn July 30, 2026, at the South Paris Arena, Shin Yubin — a young woman born o...
Alexis Lebrun Returns to Ljubljana: Two Crowns and the Burden of the HuntedIn October 2026, in Linz, Austria, a 21-year-old French player entered the...
The Geometry of the Third Ball: The Spatial Map Vietnamese Table Tennis Has Not Finished ReadingAt the men's singles final of the Paris 2026 Olympics, I stopped at one rally...
When Table Tennis Data Falls Silent: Lessons From an Empty AnalysisWhen Table Tennis Data Falls Silent Late at night in Shenzhen, I opened a tab...
After the 5/5 Sweep at Paris 2026: The World Table Tennis Power Map Enters a Compression CycleOn the scoreboard of South Paris Arena 4, the summer of 2026 closed with a...
Nine Layers of Data Behind a Single Table Tennis ServeA 10-10 scoreline in the deciding game of a WTT Champions event. The crowd...
World Table Tennis: The Numbers Show China's Gap to the Rest Is NarrowingSet four, score 8-8. Wang Chuqin stepped up for the decisive serve. I was...
Men's Table Tennis After Paris 2026: A Power Map Redrawn by DataOn the evening of August 4, 2026, at South Paris Arena, I sat in the press...
The 40+ Ball and the Repetition Race: Why the World Still Hasn't Caught ChinaMorning in Longgang, Shenzhen. The clock in the training hall reads 6:40, and...
Table Tennis and the Data Gap: The Trap of Reading 'No Risk' as 'Safe'Houston, November 2026. A 19-year-old Swedish player named Truls Moregard...
World Hopes Week 2026: 40 Children, Zero Ranking Points, and a Dataset Nobody Bothers to BuildSheffield, a week in 2026. On the World Table Tennis calendar, this event...
World Hopes Week 2026: A Strategic Springboard for England Youth Table TennisLast summer, I sat in the stands of a youth tournament in Seoul, logging ever...
A Table Tennis Season With No Off-Season: The Signals Beneath the World RankingIn the summer of 2026, I sat in my Beijing apartment, rewinding a recording...
An Empty Dossier in Chengdu: The Discipline of Verification When the Analysis Contains No Data At AllAn Empty Dossier in Chengdu: The Discipline of Verification When the Analysis...
Table Tennis After Paris 2026: China's Five Golds and the Narrowing GapOn August 4, 2026, in Paris, Fan Zhendong defeated Truls Moregard in the men'...
The Blank Page Beside the Table: When the Data Never ArrivesThree in the morning in Shenzhen. On my desk there are seven video files, an...
Pro Table Tennis and the Data Void: WTT Publishes Points, Withholds the RallyIn August 2026, in the press tribune of the Paris South Arena, I opened the...
The WTT Points Race and the Blind Spot of Vietnamese Table TennisThe WTT Points Race and the Blind Spot of Vietnamese Table Tennis On an...
