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No, Sofia led 3-2 in the match deciding set of the final and came within a rack of winning the title without needing a shootout. It was...

Winning in a shootout over Sofia Mast in the final is a cakewalk? He had to work his butt off to win the junior event!

Mizerak used to say of young world-beaters that "they were too young to know about pressure." That always cracked me up! I was present...

This makes me think you haven't played SJM. kollegedave

Mast won the Junior National Qualifier at my room about four years ago. Her instructor is from the Paso Robles area where she lives. It...

Problem is, who knows what is the right way

Really an interesting topic. When can you tell? How do you tell? They say that a couple of coaches called John McEnroe a future major...

I posted a couple of YT videos here of Chezka practicing Rotation and outrunning the ghost more than a decade ago. IIRC, she was just 12...

Chezka is probably the most natural runner of the table in the history of the women's game. Her almost instantaneous pattern...

The Jackson Five hated their father. But without him they wouldn't have amounted to much........

I doubt her mechanics and execution are gonna fall in a ditch. As far as "conceptualization, knowledge, and practice," she's sixteen...

Some of you are being a little harsh on a 16 year old girl who's prefrontal cortex has not even fully developed yet. Obviously she...

Not every kid - never mind the parents - wants to follow a normal path. Many sports greats have gone to unusual lengths in childhood to...

Excellent post! This is a very difficult subject. I would say that some get near the top without super-elite conceptualization skills...

Agreed 100%, but it's fair to compare her to other teenaged phenoms in women's pool, who were winning big titles as kids. Siming Chen...