Kim Han-gilKim Han-gil
Nine Empty Cells on the Table Tennis Analyst's DeskOn Tuesday night, a spreadsheet arrived in my inbox. Nine tabs. Tab one:...
When a Table Tennis Analysis File Contains Not a Single Data PointThree in the afternoon on a Tuesday, at a desk in Guangzhou, I open the resul...
The Gap After the Serve: The Crack in Chinese Table Tennis at ParisA friend in Prague messaged me on the night of 31 July 2026, right after Wang...
Three Chinese Players Left the WTT Ranking: Where the Point System BreaksAt the Paris 2026 Olympics, Wang Chuqin entered the round of 32 in men's...
WTT Points and the Gap at Deciding SetsOn the electronic board of a WTT arena there is a line few people notice: the...
Table Tennis Transfer Season: Amid the Storm of Rumors, Real People Remain the AnchorOn the old table by the window of a small club in Nha Trang lies a wooden...
Table Tennis: Reading the Match Through the Gap Between Two PeopleOn the night of November 22, 2026, in Fukuoka, I turned off the picture and...
The First Three Beats on the Table: The Generational Gap in China's Men's TeamThe first three seconds of a table tennis point do not lie. The serve, the...
World Table Tennis After Paris 2026: Data Piles Up, but Matches Are Still Decided in Seconds No One RecordsI opened the technical analysis file for a table tennis match at an Olympic...
China and the Rest of World Table Tennis: Reading the Gap Through DataIn the final of a WTT Champions event, seventh game, the score 10-10. The...
Alexis Lebrun Defends Two European Crowns in Ljubljana: The New Burden of the HuntedIn 2026, in Linz, nobody was waiting for Alexis Lebrun. He entered the Europe...
The Hidden Race Behind the World Table Tennis Rankings: When the 52-Week Clock Decides a Player's FateThere is a number few people notice on the world table tennis rankings. Every...
World Table Tennis Power Map 2026: Measuring the China-vs-Rest Gap in Rally DataINTRODUCTION The ninth point, the seventh game, a team quarterfinal on a majo...
The Nine Layers of Professional Table Tennis Analysis: The Discipline of Data and the Trap of Hasty ConclusionsIn the last three matches of a WTT Champions stop, the rally win rate of a...
Elite Table Tennis: Nine Layers of Data and the Line Between Analysis and SpeculationIn my office in Shenzhen, my screen displays a completely blank analysis shee...
52 Weeks and an Empty Column: Table Tennis Analysis Begins With the CalendarOn my computer screen, at two in the morning, there is a document divided int...
Table Tennis in the WTT Era: The Rolling 52-Week Ranking and the Gaps Nobody CountsTable Tennis in the WTT Era: The Rolling 52-Week Ranking and the Gaps Nobody...
Vietnamese Table Tennis and the 40-Millimetre Line: The Fight to Reclaim SpacePhu Tho Arena, a May afternoon. I was sitting in the seventh row, with the ro...
The first three shots of a table tennis rally, and the blind spot the WTT rankings never light upThe sidespin serve leaves the hand at about two hand-spans of height, lands i...
World Hopes Week in Sheffield: The U12 Generation and England's Three-Year PuzzleSheffield is about to receive 40 children who carry no world ranking. Twenty...
World Hopes Week and the equation of 40 children: what my spreadsheet cannot measureI was sitting in a café on Lach Tray Street in Hai Phong, staring at a number...
WTT Ranking Points and Germany's 90-Day ProblemOn 3 August 2026, at 21:40 Munich time, I opened the latest WTT ranking expor...
Nine Data Layers of Table Tennis: An Open Audit of a Misread SportIn October 2026, in Kuala Lumpur, the International Table Tennis Federation...
Nine Sedimentary Layers of Table Tennis: Decoding Talent from Technique to Industry EcosystemThere are evenings in the press room in Chengdu, after a tournament closes,...
World Youth Table Tennis: An Excavation Beneath the Dust of the RankingsIn November 2026, inside a small arena in southern Sweden, I sat through four...
The Empty Analysis File: When Table Tennis Data Has No SubjectThe analysis file opened blank on the meeting-room screen in Guangzhou. Nine...
Nine Dimensions of Professional Table Tennis AnalysisOn a certain evening in the arena, while most of the crowd rose to their feet...
