The 20th Asian Table Tennis Championship (video)

(WT-Final) CHINA-SINGAPORE (match4) GUO Yue - FENG Tianwei  [Full Match]

Edited by janus700 - 02/28/2012 at 8:20am

Men's team Semi Final
China vs Chinese Taipei

http://bugu.cntv.cn/sports/information/cctv5tiyusaishi/classpage/video/20120226/100348.shtml


Men's team Semi Final
Korea vs Japan

http://bugu.cntv.cn/sports/information/cctv5tiyusaishi/classpage/video/20120226/100410.shtml


Can someone, or Janus,  please upload those 2 Mens semi final team matches? Thanks in advance.

MEN'S TEAM FINAL :: CHINA - JAPAN [FULL Match]

Edited by janus700 - 02/26/2012 at 4:47pm

mrdoodzki wrote: janus could you make short forms of the matches?

Another 3-0 thrashing of Japan in the final by china. It is so boring to watch one sided match like this.
Table tennis needs a strong Europe to challenge china to make it more interesting. It is not fun to watch a no contest between china and the rest of the world, very very boring.
Hope the rest of the world can bridge the massive gap by producing a few more Waldners and Timo Bolls and dethrone china.

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(MT-F) [match2] MA Lin - MIZUTANI Jun [Full Match|Short Form]

Edited by janus700 - 02/28/2012 at 8:32am

I agree with jonan.

I think Japan are showing the way, and may get a bit closer before Niwa and Mizutani are finished, they just need the luck that Sweden had to have several outstanding individuals to front the challenge over quite a long period.
But in the meantime I still enjoy watching pro tt:
china, korea, japan,france germany, singapore its all very inspiring to watch

janus700 wrote: mrdoodzki wrote: janus could you make short forms of the matches? You didn't read the note of my previous post

oh sori janus.

but still, you are the best uploader of tt videos

Edited by mrdoodzki - 02/26/2012 at 8:24pm

bbkon wrote: jackwong23 wrote: Another 3-0 thrashing of Japan in the final by china. It is so boring to watch one sided match like this. Table tennis needs a strong Europe to challenge china to make it more interesting. It is not fun to watch a no contest between china and the rest of the world, very very boring. Hope the rest of the world can bridge the massive gap by producing a few more Waldners and Timo Bolls and dethrone china. excuse me but only waldner has made harm to the chinese.boll can beat some in minor tournaments but in wttc nope sir

i would not consider world cup a minor tournament. timo boll has won against chinese in wttc events, though not enough to tip the scale in favor of the non-chinese...

bbkon wrote: excuse me but only waldner has made harm to the chinese.boll can beat some in minor tournaments but in wttc nope sir

WTTTC 2010, Boll beat Ma Long in the final

Edited by janus700 - 02/27/2012 at 5:20pm

That was also like well over a year ago.

dingyibvs wrote: Interestingly in this tournament, ZJK/ML got knocked out in the first round of the doubles competition in 3 straight sets by a pair from India.

Now THAT I want to see...please, someone, somewhere, we neeeed that video. Can title it, "How 2 unknowns from a country with no big table tennis background can defeat the reigning world and olympic champions.

mrdoodzki wrote: when is the singles event for the Asian Championship?

It's running already. ITTF has draws and results:
http://ittf.com/competitions/competitions2.asp?Competition_ID=2130&category=Cont

amateur wrote: Achanta and Saha are hardly "unknowns", they're the reigning Commonwealth champions (beating Gao Ning and Yang Zi in the final). And India is rapidly emerging - at the 2011 junior worlds they beat South Korea in the team event and gave China a run for their money (0-3, but all matches in 5 games).

Of course I've heard of Achanta before, with his coming to the US open so many times, but I had never heard of Saha before, and I mean I pour through the results from almost every single pro tour event. He's currently at #257 in the world, Kamal is still just #75. And reigning commonwealth doubles champions...eh. I can't even name the world mixed doubles champions off the top of my head, because I mean doubles...I think the top players only do them half the time because otherwise they would get bored and the Chinese don't really even care (Zhang Chao and Cao Zhen are current mixed doubles world champions btw, went and wikied it)

The point is!!! This is a massive upset, wouldn't have put 1:100 odds on it. And yes, they are rapidly emerging, but what I said was, no big history in the sport. They haven't been producing top pros like most Asian and European countries for decades.