The Japan Open

Semifinal
Timo Boll-Joo Se Hyuk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gtDkzU_gG8

Jun Mizutani-Li Ching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ZvH9HWYH0

Final
Timo Boll-Jun Mizutani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvaIw_-8s5A

Nice quality, thanks to ttprovider! :)

Do you have BOLL Timo vs JOO Se Hyuk  (megaupload).?


Edited by sadra121 - 07/04/2010 at 11:12am

Hello. could someone please post the games on megaupload! 
Timo Boll vs. Jun Mizutani, 
Jun Mizutani vs. Kim Min Seok, 
Jung Young Sik vs. Jun Mizutani. 

please would be very grateful!

blahness wrote: Thanks to all the video uploaders! I think Boll added a new dimension to his game lately. He no longer has that "constipated" look when looping. Now it's becoming much smoother(maybe due to better timing?). Also his loops got so much harder now. His FH flip is really deadly now. Very deceptive directional changes at the last minute, and also it's so much harder now. Mizutani really has to work on his FH side. His FH loops from his FH side are not strong enough to pose a threat to Boll.

yeah, i totally agree.  boll has tweaked the fh loop and added more pop and his anticipation has improved.

the only people now he apparently can't hit thru are the top 6 chinese players.

as for mizutani, you're right, he just doesn't have the power on the fh loop.  and i think it's just not him, but all the japanese players, except for maybe yoshida kaii (who's actually chinese).

in the last set, there were a few counterlooping rallies.  it looks to me like mizutani is hitting the ball too late, too far to the side of his body.  he needs to set himself up so that he can hit the ball more upfront.  and i think he knows there's a problem and that's why he served long in the last set, cuz he wanted to have those long fh loop rallies, cuz i think he wants to go after the match and study that video.

but there's another possibility, that being the racket he's playing with.  if it's slower and/or less spinny than boll's then that could be the problem, at least in part.

shame on boll he is definetely tuning  and i almost taught he had a sportsman spirit in him

who was the old lady having a nice talk with boll and rossi?

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takaaki wrote: blahness wrote: Thanks to all the video uploaders! I think Boll added a new dimension to his game lately. He no longer has that "constipated" look when looping. Now it's becoming much smoother(maybe due to better timing?). Also his loops got so much harder now. His FH flip is really deadly now. Very deceptive directional changes at the last minute, and also it's so much harder now. Mizutani really has to work on his FH side. His FH loops from his FH side are not strong enough to pose a threat to Boll.  yeah, i totally agree.  boll has tweaked the fh loop and added more pop and his anticipation has improved. the only people now he apparently can't hit thru are the top 6 chinese players. as for mizutani, you're right, he just doesn't have the power on the fh loop.  and i think it's just not him, but all the japanese players, except for maybe yoshida kaii (who's actually chinese). in the last set, there were a few counterlooping rallies.  it looks to me like mizutani is hitting the ball too late, too far to the side of his body.  he needs to set himself up so that he can hit the ball more upfront.  and i think he knows there's a problem and that's why he served long in the last set, cuz he wanted to have those long fh loop rallies, cuz i think he wants to go after the match and study that video. but there's another possibility, that being the racket he's playing with.  if it's slower and/or less spinny than boll's then that could be the problem, at least in part.

Here is the spectacular Men s singles final from the Japan Open 2010. in Kobe

Timo Boll VS. Jun Mizutani     http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CWG8K0S5

Sorry that it took so long to post this, but I had to re-start the upload. Also, the average upload speed was ca. 13 KB/s (took me nearly 6h to finish).

Enjoy and stop complaining about Timo. Here is a little history lesson about the german wunderkind.

He was, he is and he will always be a exceptional TT player. 

His bad luck with injuries (Olympia 2004. - he had injury in the build up (two months before the event)

                                                WTTC 2005. - he was not fully fit (high fever during tounament)

                                               Olympia 2008. - he had injury in march (missed because of that the WTTC 2008.)

                                                WTTC 2009 - he couldn t play because of injury)

and the fact that he needs to complete with the most dominant generation of chinese player - are the main reasons he wasn t been world or even olympic champion so far. 

To be fair I must admit that he had two grat chances that he wasted easily: 

WTTC 2003. - Timo is World number 1 and loses second Round match to Qiu Yike !!!!!!!

WTTC 2007. - Timo loses in quarterfinals against Ryu Seung Min without winning a set, but the amazing fact is that he has never before this match or afterwards had any problems beating Ryu (it is to this day the only victory for Ryu vs. Timo, he has barely has managed to win a few sets in all the matches together ). I can t explain what went wrong there, but he had a chance to be world champion in Zagreb 2007. (my humble opinion)

His skill level is amazing and beyond compare in Europe (I truly believe that he is the second best Europaen player EVER - behind J.O. Waldner). 

I have alson noticed that he is hitting harder, but it does not have to be because of tuning. The tuning can be a reason, but i think that it has more to do with his determination to work on fis fitness level. A few years ago he said that he feels that his tehnique is good enough to keep up with the chinese, but he thinks that they are miles ahead in the physical aspect of the game, and he wanted to develop his physical strength. 

Just look some videos of "young" Timo Boll and compare it to the Timo Boll of now. It think the difference
 is undeniable. He is simply much "bigger"

Another reason for his harder play can be the fact that the chinese have adjusted to his crazy spin, and he just needed to add another dinension to his game in oreder to stay unpredictable

When Timo is fully fit and "in the zone" I would say that every match between him and the chinese is a 50%-50% game. And nobody else in the world (in the last 10 years, at least) is even close to Timo when it comes to challenging the great chinese wall.

For example, I think that Ryu Seung Min (one of my favourite players ever) is not half as good as Timo. Yet he did manage to get olympic gold 2004. and a bronze medal at the WTTC 2007. 

Maybe it is Timo s destiny to go the way of Werner Schlager and capture the great prize when nobody is expecting it to happen anymore. 

Only time will tell, if Timo will go down in TT history as one of the greatest players ever, but I have made my mind that he already is a true champion. 

I hope that my little essay wasn t too boring, but some of the comments above were untrue, and I felt the need to put some things into context. 

Is Timo like the great white hope of table tennis?  The defensive fanboyishness of some of his fans is comical

Videos from bokett.com

WS-QF
ZHU Yuling vs FUKUHARA Ai
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T3GPS5Q3

MS-SF
LI Ching vs MIZUTANI Jun
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V8ZI42GN

MS-QF
MIZUTANI Jun vs JUNG Young Sik
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KLYK15PA



Edited by Fixpoint - 07/06/2010 at 7:00am

Women's Singles Finals:

Fixpoint wrote: Videos from bokett.com WS-QF ZHU Yuling vs FUKUHARA Ai http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T3GPS5Q3 MS-F BOLL Timo vs MIZUTANI Jun http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V8ZI42GN MS-QF MIZUTANI Jun vs JUNG Young Sik http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KLYK15PA

Thank you Fixpoint.

ejmaster wrote:   you are absolutely right emir24.   Timo Boll is a shark in the water . A solid player to win the wttc singles this year.

He's chance to win the Olympics in London is much better. There will be only 2 Chinese players, unlike WTTC there will still be 7.