Phil NevillePhil Neville
Nine Empty Cells on the Table Tennis Analyst's DeskOn Tuesday night, a spreadsheet arrived in my inbox. Nine tabs. Tab one:...
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...
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...
The Busan Sediment: Korean Youth Table Tennis and the Data No One MeasuresOn an October afternoon in a training hall deep in the Haeundae district of...
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...
The Empty Analysis Board: Why Table Tennis Analysts Must Learn to Say 'Not Enough Data'In Guangzhou, every morning I start work with the same gesture: I build an...
The Void in a Perfect Analysis: Table Tennis, Data, and the Trap of Automated PipelinesThere is a file I keep on my machine, not because it is good, but because it ...
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...
Ten Years of the Plastic Ball: Longer Rallies, Wider GapsTen Years of the Plastic Ball: Longer Rallies, Wider Gaps On 4 August 2026, i...
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...
Vietnamese Table Tennis Through the WTT Rankings: The Real Gap Is Not in the LoopOn the scoreboard of a WTT stop I followed closely all season, one column of...
US Open 2026: Swiatek beats Wang Xiyu 6-2, 6-3 – But hard courts remain an unanswered questionWatching from the stands of Louis Armstrong Stadium, where the evening breeze...
