battle of the sexes

-To spin the ball heavily takes power. Women generally don't have the upper body strength of their male counterparts. thus men are better at "explosive power" due to their more developed upper bodies;

-female players tend to have better reflexes and stroke recuperation / rhythm than their male counterparts but men have faster hands / stroke;

-men tend to play with greater power due to testosterone and their “superior” physique;

-the small difference in the way female and male brains work. there are differences in spatial temporal awareness (females have one side of the brain relatively more developed and males the other when compared to each other);

-difference in motor skills can be observed in the wing dominance of most female players in both tennis and table tennis. women's tennis is backhand dominant because they are more comfortable using two hands, but even the vast majority of female table tennis players are backhand dominant. Even supposed forehand dominant female players still have awkward, stiff motions;

-female players lack impulse ( mass x speed);

-disadvantage concerning the female body, with its smaller moment of inertia (of arms), on the other hand this offers a much better base for shorter moves that are closer to their body, this is why they usually stay close to table and block/counter bh until one of they makes mistake. Furthermore males (generally) having greater power than females, they can also reach peak power quicker (partly to do with ability to generate greater torque I think) and in addition tend to have longer levers. So males have an inbuilt advantage of greater peak power, the ability to generate peak power more quickly and a longer lever system allowing for more speed;

-Small playing area in tt favours 'reaction talents' and make them more important in tt than "running-jumping" talents compared with lawn tennis for example. Thus the top tt women have a good chance against those male pros who have slower reactions;

-Top male table tennis players are more powerful than top female table tennis players because of gender differences in physiology;