OOAK Table Tennis Forum

Watching the videos of the Ping Pong World matches on YouTube, it looks a lot more like the modern game than it does the old, classic hardbat. Very little chop defense, mainly topspin vs. topspin, and quite short rallies. Not sure why this is, I've been told it's because the standardized bats in WPP tournaments are quite fast. Choppers like slower blades (like the old Hock 3 plies). You can compare them yourself - there are a lot of the old 1950s classic matches on YouTube. Back then you usually ended up with one player attacking and the other chopping, with much longer rallies. At one World Champs in the 1930s some matches went on for hours, so they introduced the expedite rule. This forced the server to attack, so you ended up with attack vs. defense and matches that took a reasonable amount of time.

Iskandar

Look for the WCPP videos of Richard Gonzales. He made it to the semis in 2014 chopping on the BH, attacking with FH, losing to the eventual winner, so chopping can work.

The most likely reason for a lack of choppers in WCPP is a lack of choppers in general in all forms of the sport. If you go through the WCPP players, there are likely few or no other choppers in the field.