http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLVEQKe3EAs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLVEQKe3EAs

Crisan over Boll.

Steger over Tan.

Steger wins Crisan.

rebirth  of pips play, who said today play  is too powerful to pips play, it wasnt an upset ..matennet fell too...that leads to the  question about the tan ruiwu raquet(pips)

That was the best point sofar in this EC! Will be hard to surpass :)

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Boll vs Gacina

http://www.laola1.tv/en/int/table-tennis/ettu/boll-ger-gacina-cro/video/331-2824-100009.html - http://www.laola1.tv/en/int/table-tennis/ettu/boll-ger-gacina-cro/video/331-2824-100009.html

he have won this title six times and three in a row!! now i understand why chinese palyers don't like to face Timo.

They needed the referees from the olympics. 

i  dont think you can make it to the final with ilegal serves and they should have played a lot of times

+1

From where he was standing and tan being a lefty it's hard to see the serves 

several pro players told me that he s so fast  and when he was training multiball drills he did things that havent seen now in current chinese players

Not withstanding Timo's winning the championship and not withstanding his brilliant closing point against Garcina, this match may have been as important as either of those.  Crisan seems to give Timo fits every time they play so winning this match is a great achievement all in itself.

I'll try to save you an excruciating experience and recommend you don't watch the womens final (Hint: chop... chop... chop.......chop......chop chop..... chop... ).

I know, i kid :) Let's have it, by all means. I'm not kidding about the nature of the game tho. Great snakes, that was boring! But they can't be blamed. When two women defenders face off, physiology is just a limiting factor as far as an entertaining match is concerned. 

Chen Weixing vs Joo see hyuk is always entertaining, despite both being defensive. Does anyone remember female chop vs chop games in the glue era? Was it faster?

Not to circle jerk, but that is almost the exact conclusion I came to. 

Tan played quite brilliantly, IMO. Some of his serves looked "borderline", but no more than anyone else in any match I've watched... and even then it could've been a deceptive camera angle. 

Tan played almost compulsively into Steger's body and Steger simply didn't know how to deal with it. He was obviously perplexed and frustrated and didn't know what to do with his anger so he started picking on Tan's serves based on one successful third ball attack. 

One of my training partner's plays to the body a lot and it gives me nightmares. Of course, as soon as I get the timing down and start stepping around, he starts going wide to my forehand. Then I'm screwed because he knows he's in my head and I have no idea where he's gonna go next. 

I'm not even disappointed with Steger's reaction, even though I think he was off base complaining about Tan's serves. There are a lot of ways to lose but not feel awkward about it. Constantly getting forehands crammed into your gut, forcing you to feel like you're a T-Rex trying to play table tennis is not a dignified or enjoyable way to lose a point. 

Tan owning Steger:

Steger likely felt like this much of the match:

 

Anyway, regarding Tan's serves, to me, it's clearly that most of them are illegal serves but to the umpire/referee, I don't think it is because of the line of sight.  I'm sure the umpire/referee saw clearly that Tan removed his non-playing hand and they also clearly saw the bat touched the ball.  But to Steger, he couldn't see anything.  I believe that we will need a third referee standing behind the receiver to determine if the serve is illegal or not .  But again, it's up to ITTF to figure it out how to enforce this kind of illegal serves controversies.

 

FireHorse

Lots of Steger's serves were clearly illegal. This was taken later in the game and he's hitting the ball at this moment or a fraction of a second later. (His serves got more blatantly illegal as time progressed, maybe because of frustration)