Phil NevillePhil Neville
Table TennisThe WTT 52-Week Race: How the Ranking Table Writes the Script Before the Ball BouncesThere are weeks when a player arrives at a tournament as the third seed, wins...
Table TennisBehind the 11-9: The Nine Geological Layers of a Table Tennis MatchThe third ball of the fourth set dropped just past the edge of the table, and...
Table TennisNine Empty Cells on the Table Tennis Data SheetEleven at night in Beijing, the screen in my office showed a spreadsheet with...
Table TennisTwenty-Seven Empty Cells on a Table Tennis Data Sheet: Why I Refused to Fill Them With GuessesMy tracking sheet has 41 columns. On Tuesday night, at 1:47 in the morning, I...
Table TennisSeeds Beneath the Snow of Points: Youth Table Tennis in the WTT EraSeeds Beneath the Snow of Points In November, at a training hall on the...
Table TennisWorld Table Tennis After the Paris Golden Sweep: China's Throne and the Invisible KnotsIn December 2026, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng — the men's and women's singles...
Table TennisWhen a Table Tennis Data Sheet Comes Back Empty: The Discipline of the AnalystThree in the morning in Beijing, I reopened the extraction sheet of a table...
VolleyballAuditing Vietnamese Volleyball Data: The Silent Scoreboard On CourtDuring the semifinal of the 2026 National Women's Volleyball Championship,...
GolfVietnamese Golf Is Missing the Data RevolutionRound 3 of the 2026 VGA Tour at Vinpearl Nha Trang. The home golfer stood ove...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: The Japan Conundrum for India's Men's Badminton TeamOn September 20, 2026, as the Indian medal tally report from the first day of...
International FootballThe Dark Zone of Football Data: A Lesson from La CommanderieOn my computer screen at the La Commanderie training centre in October 2026,...
ChessThe Clock Is the Coach: Reading Vietnamese Chess Through Three Measures of TimeThe Clock Is the Coach: Reading Vietnamese Chess Through Three Measures of Ti...
Table TennisTable Tennis England Hosts Online Session on 29 September 2026 Over DBS Rule Changes for Adults Working With ChildrenOn 1 September 2026, at a table tennis hall in England, a volunteer stood...
SwimmingThe Data Silence After Paris 2026 and How Swimming Fills It With StoryThe clock on the office wall in Beijing reads 2:07 a.m. On screen is a...
International FootballManchester United: A Leaked Shortlist Before the Press Conference, and the £30m Bill Blocking Unai Emery11:40 pm, Barcelona time. I read the message from a contact on the Manchester...
International FootballAston Villa 3-1 Coventry: Tammy Abraham's Double and the Transfer Map Behind a Fourth-Round TicketIbrahim Mbaye's corner came in from the left, curling into the space between...
VolleyballLong An 0-3 Binh Chung Thong Tin: A Scoreline That Hides a Two-Point Match and a Thin Opposite SlotThe scoreboard at Vinh Long provincial gymnasium read 3-0 on the night of 24...
International FootballGalatasaray vs Fenerbahçe: Osimhen Carries the Hype, but This Derby Is Scored From Many DirectionsAt 21:30 tonight, RAMS Park. In the black notebook I have carried for five...
Table TennisWhen the Table Tennis Analysis Sheet Comes Back Zero: The Discipline Behind the ChartAt 2:47 in the morning, the second analysis sheet of the major-event cycle...
Domestic FootballU23 Uzbekistan 2-0 U23 Kuwait: U23 Vietnam's Narrow Door and What the Standings Still HideMinute 48, on a pitch in Nagoya, Fayzullaev Ruziboy picked up a second yellow...
Table TennisBehind the 11-9: The Nine Geological Layers of a Table Tennis MatchThe third ball of the fourth set dropped just past the edge of the table, and...
Table TennisNine Empty Cells on the Table Tennis Data SheetEleven at night in Beijing, the screen in my office showed a spreadsheet with...
Table TennisTwenty-Seven Empty Cells on a Table Tennis Data Sheet: Why I Refused to Fill Them With GuessesMy tracking sheet has 41 columns. On Tuesday night, at 1:47 in the morning, I...
Table TennisSeeds Beneath the Snow of Points: Youth Table Tennis in the WTT EraSeeds Beneath the Snow of Points In November, at a training hall on the...
Table TennisWorld Table Tennis After the Paris Golden Sweep: China's Throne and the Invisible KnotsIn December 2026, Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng — the men's and women's singles...
Table TennisWhen a Table Tennis Data Sheet Comes Back Empty: The Discipline of the AnalystThree in the morning in Beijing, I reopened the extraction sheet of a table...
VolleyballAuditing Vietnamese Volleyball Data: The Silent Scoreboard On CourtDuring the semifinal of the 2026 National Women's Volleyball Championship,...
GolfVietnamese Golf Is Missing the Data RevolutionRound 3 of the 2026 VGA Tour at Vinpearl Nha Trang. The home golfer stood ove...
BadmintonAsian Games 2026: The Japan Conundrum for India's Men's Badminton TeamOn September 20, 2026, as the Indian medal tally report from the first day of...
International FootballThe Dark Zone of Football Data: A Lesson from La CommanderieOn my computer screen at the La Commanderie training centre in October 2026,...
ChessThe Clock Is the Coach: Reading Vietnamese Chess Through Three Measures of TimeThe Clock Is the Coach: Reading Vietnamese Chess Through Three Measures of Ti...
Table TennisTable Tennis England Hosts Online Session on 29 September 2026 Over DBS Rule Changes for Adults Working With ChildrenOn 1 September 2026, at a table tennis hall in England, a volunteer stood...
SwimmingThe Data Silence After Paris 2026 and How Swimming Fills It With StoryThe clock on the office wall in Beijing reads 2:07 a.m. On screen is a...
International FootballManchester United: A Leaked Shortlist Before the Press Conference, and the £30m Bill Blocking Unai Emery11:40 pm, Barcelona time. I read the message from a contact on the Manchester...
International FootballAston Villa 3-1 Coventry: Tammy Abraham's Double and the Transfer Map Behind a Fourth-Round TicketIbrahim Mbaye's corner came in from the left, curling into the space between...
VolleyballLong An 0-3 Binh Chung Thong Tin: A Scoreline That Hides a Two-Point Match and a Thin Opposite SlotThe scoreboard at Vinh Long provincial gymnasium read 3-0 on the night of 24...
International FootballGalatasaray vs Fenerbahçe: Osimhen Carries the Hype, but This Derby Is Scored From Many DirectionsAt 21:30 tonight, RAMS Park. In the black notebook I have carried for five...
Table TennisWhen the Table Tennis Analysis Sheet Comes Back Zero: The Discipline Behind the ChartAt 2:47 in the morning, the second analysis sheet of the major-event cycle...
Domestic FootballU23 Uzbekistan 2-0 U23 Kuwait: U23 Vietnam's Narrow Door and What the Standings Still HideMinute 48, on a pitch in Nagoya, Fayzullaev Ruziboy picked up a second yellow...
