GAC GROUP 2012 ITTF World Tour, KRA Korea Open,16

(ws-qf) HIRANO Sayaka - LI Xiaoxia [Full Match/Chinese]

mrdoodzki wrote: what's tang peng's equipment now? his backhand pips sounds noisier that usual...

Lol, well I don't really look at annoying or unannoying, but rather the level of commentating. I do enjoy Yang Ying's commentating, as most of the time she relates to herself as a formal player / world champion and invites CNT team leader or coaches or ex national team members / world champions to comment. The level of commentating (words used) that CCTV provides is really high imo.

Of course there will be different views on what is the best, as this is an international community, with so many cultural back grounds etc, and it is therefore the executives job to find a meet point for all to be happy - with a long term plan in mind.

ITTF has no money? I think that is where ITTF goes wrong. You don't use your own money to do business/make money. You need to use other peoples money to do business. I hope ITTF retires this 14 years president (his same action, different years is not working), and get in a non TT playing executive with experience in sales/marketing, so they can turn the "company" around.

(ms-qf) YOON Jaeyoung - XU Xin [Full Match|Short Form]

Edited by janus700 - 05/19/2012 at 8:55pm

all chinese semi finals! haha

Thumbs up to Persson, 46 years old, and still managing to get into Quarters finals or Semi Finals (Bejing 2008).

Agree,
Korea always produce players with good footwork.
From 1988, to even today we have witness this.

So that is why I am not suprised to see many generation of Korean players causing trouble or upsets to Chinese players. They also have a good TT system in place, and in a way, they footwork is unique and more stronger than Chinese imo

(ms-R16) MA Long - LEE Sang Su [Full Match|Short Form]

Popperlocker,

Yes, what you say makes sense, but are we going to continue keeping the standard low forever?
Why don't they look at a long term plan - 10 years later, that the general public needs something better (and not just MYTT members).

We need to compare 1st world TT to 3rd world TT.
In China, every one can understand Yang Yin's comments on CCTV. Now the questions is how did they get there. What needs to be done? Maybe commentators need training? or Fans need to learn TT more?

I think finding excuses for poor commentators is really short sited. We need to look at long term and the growth between fans and commentators etc, it needs to be parallel or one leading the other.

Simply waking up a different day, but doing the same thing - won't make things better

And if it wasn't for Ma Long's lost, we gonna have all Chinese Semi finals in both Male and Female.

What will happen is Xu Xin wins Korea open, and then non of the male  Olympians win China open???

oh damn!  they brought that really annoying commentator back!  I thought they got rid of him for good

Wang Hao really wants the Gold - the amount of weight he has lost is incredible!

Ma Long looked terrible,  so lethargic, no bounce in his play.

upset confirmed 

Now it is 3 to 1, Ma Long is behind.