2009 Yokohama WTTC Video Thread

Cyberpukish wrote: 14 yr old Niwa looks good! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydbf2i7IHTs

very good boys.. plays like me..

liXiao wrote: KENTA WON!

Kenta really broke Oh's heart... i was following the score line with my mobile throughout, it seemed to be an exciting match. However, at least Joo go past round 2. I thought he couldn't make it when down 2-1...

theman wrote: ishikawa won against tie yana?!!?!? holy moly, this is japanese season! lixiao is gonna be one happy guy XD

Kan Yo, Sayaka, and Fukuhara are out. Mikie Tasei has to play Liu Shiwen again and I hope she does well. Amazingly Kaii Yoshida has an excellent draw. If he wins, and then plays the Winner of Zhang Cao, that could mean he makes it too quarters, where he will play Maze. I cant wait to see Kenta, Ma Lin match.

kenta will get his ass kicked by ma!

Cyberpukish wrote: I just realised that Maze tried to bounce the ball on the Gerflor mat, obviously the ball didnt bounce back up..... :D

Its from the Jin Kwon Lee match at around 22 minute ITTF vid. Maze looks so much better and comfortable in this game. I hope he can keep it up and create some upsets.

Ice! Any chances of getting some video recordings from TV?

JimT wrote: Ice! Any chances of getting some video recordings from TV?

I will be uploading Niwa/Morizono vs Gao/Feng Mixed Doubles match to YouTube. You people will see the link tomorow, I promise. Gosh, that match was close. :D

What TV station show matches from wttc without Eurosport and CCTV5?Anybody knows?

crs2 wrote: The ITTV broke another standard by not showing us ANY of today's major upsets. Good job.

You mean they should have known in advance that Samsonov, Ryu, Oh... would lose? Did you expect that?

Kenta over Kara and Gacina over Kan Yo were upsets and can be seen on itTV.

By the way, what's up with Crisan???

amateur wrote: You mean they should have known in advance that Samsonov, Ryu, Oh... would lose? Did you expect that? Kenta over Kara and Gacina over Kan Yo were upsets and can be seen on itTV. By the way, what's up with Crisan???

crs2 wrote:   I mean this is THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS. The matches are televised on more than one table. It's not that complicated. I said MAJOR upsets.  Wouldn't you have liked to see Oh Sang Eun's  match or Ryu's??? What is wrong with asking that over Kan Yo or Wang Hao? And by the way I would have LOVED to see Crisan's match. In case you asked what's up with his health, well he is tired and his back may have been acting up again. Thanks for the counter.

Sure it's the worlds, but this is table tennis not soccer, and it was the round of 64, and there are dozens of matches (+ women + doubles) - who's gonna pay for the cost of taping every match on every table? You don't even have that at the big tennis majors.

I just feel we're all getting a bit spoiled here - can't any of you remember what things were like just a few years ago? All the whining and the sense of entitlement is kind of ridiculous.

2005 Shanghai, they recorded a lot of early round matches. I admire your capacity of sucking it in and not whining. I sure can't seem to do it. Maybe you could patronize us some more... go on.....

I meant not enough matches here at WTTC 2009 - I agree that ITTF is not doing its job...

JimT wrote: They televised virtually every match at Olympic Games, right? Of course, not every table is "worthy" but it was still not enough matches...

The Olympics were great, but actually the maximum was 4 matches televised in parallel, with no more than 8 tables in use in each session.At these Worlds there were 16-24 matches being played simultaneously (yesterday, that is).

At the Olympics the field was much smaller (and there was no doubles), and players like Samsonov, Ryu and Oh didn't even have to play a round of 64 because they were seeded out. In singles there were never more than 4 matches going on at the same time. And of course the economics of the Olympics are a whole different story from those of a puny TT worlds...

Also, you guys need to distinguish between ITTF, the host broadcaster, CCTV, BOCOG for the Olympics... it's easy to blame "them" but who exactly are "they"? As far as streaming on ittf.com (as opposed to CCTV on sopcast etc.) is concerned, this year does seem to represent another big progress over previous years. The quality also is higher than last year.

There's supposed to be 2 TV feeds starting tomorrow, and the number of matches played simultaneously will gradually decrease from 16 to 2, so that should help to make more people happy.

That said, I too hope that Korean TV had some cameras there to capture the good and the bad of their athletes.

WHERE IS FIXPOINT? Now i know a few good japanese websites that are sure to have all these matches hopefully.