@Zwetschg'nmanschgerl:
Thank you. From the lack of response to my question I assumed I am not allowed to ask questions but that I should just answer them.
Yes, I agree with you that the new rules were noy implemented in the best possible way. But we are doing our best now to correct that. However, I would like to remind everyone that the VOC-glue ban is not new. We already banned 4 solvents (Tueolene, Hexane, etc.) in 1994 (14 years ago), and already then the ITTF announced that this was just a first step and that when it would be possible to test and detect ALL solvents a total ban would be introduced. In 2004 Japan proposed the total ban with the implementation date of 2006. This was postponed twice to 2007 and 2008. So in fact everyone had a 4-year advance notice. But you are right, perhaps a better way to implement the rule could have been possible.
(1) The lack of examination (testing) at the local and regional level is no different than any previous ITTF rule. You could be using illegal glue (containing Hexane, etc.) before and no one would know. Racket testing from 1994 to 2008 was done mainly at National and International levels. If your racket covering was or is too thick who is checking? The 4mm rule is in existence for more than 20 years. At the local and regional level you have to use the "honour" system the best you can, just like in all other sports. In tennis you do not have a "line electronic machine" to decide if the ball is in or out, players just use the honour system (and many times fight about it, I know).
(2) Regarding 11-points, yes you are right its a matter of opinion and some may not like it. But now that we have it for several years I hear mainly positive reactions, especially from TV networks, the media (journalists) and spectators, and "most" players. Now I know that you don't like it.
The higher net idea is not my own. We have been told that perhaps the Swiss TT Association will propose a higher net. Also the Chairman of the Athletes Commission of the ITTF, Zoran Primorac, much favours the higher net. In his opinion we should keep the boosters and tuners to provide as close as possible the feeling of the so-called speed-glue, and make the net higher instead. But as always, I never react positively or negatively to any idea. After all the idea of playing Tennis on a dining room table with cigar boxes and champagne corks must have seemed crazy at the time, but today it's our sport. So, I prefer to listen to all ideas and then follow a process: make some experiments, many trials, many aalysis and then judge if it is good for TT or not. And at the end the decision is made by the national associations member of the ITTF, we have 205. So if they think an idea is good for TT and they vote for it, then OK, why not. But usually this process can take many years (40mm ball - 5 years, 11 points - 3 years, Service rule - many many years). So don't change your net yet.
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