2012 ITTF World Tour Koltsovo Russia Open (VIDEOS)

lol, overhyped

Both Xu Xin and Zhou Yu signed the scorecard with their right hands. I'm pretty sure I saw Hao Shuai do the same thing a couple weeks ago.  I know Jun Mizutani is really right-handed too.  What's with making everyone learn table tennis with their off hands?  Does coming in from the left side really gain you that much advantage?

Stellan Bengsston is the only lefty to win the world's I am aware of.

skip3119 wrote: Both Xu Xin and Zhou Yu signed the scorecard with their right hands. I'm pretty sure I saw Hao Shuai do the same thing a couple weeks ago.  I know Jun Mizutani is really right-handed too.  ====================================   I think in China & Japan, when a left-handed child learns how to write, the parents force the child to use the right hand.  That was the situation back then.   In the western countries, parents just let the child use whichever hand the child prefers to use to write.  Parents in the western countries just don't force the left-handed child to use right hand to write.

Correct, and also as I said above, it is easier to write with the right hand - base on how the characters are formed.

A lefty that can write with a right is actually very cool.
Left hand holds an eraser, the right hand a pencil. I thought that was quite cool lol
I also know one person that can use chopsticks with both hands

Is there a youtube version of Zhou Yu vs Muramatsu Yuto?

skip3119 wrote: Is there a youtube version of Zhou Yu vs Muramatsu Yuto?

cmetsbeltran15 wrote: skip3119 wrote: Is there a youtube version of Zhou Yu vs Muramatsu Yuto? pretty short video, lolol

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There are many good Chinese teenagers like Lin, Song Hongyuan and others. ;) But I can still be impressed by a 16 year old defender.

Edited by Anderni - 09/18/2012 at 2:28pm

skip3119 wrote: I'll show you not bad for a 16 year old. ============================   A direct link of those two videos will be great.

Edited by janus700 - 09/18/2012 at 1:48pm

janus700:

 

bbkon wrote:   my former coach told me that lefties are taken seriuosly in china, in mid 90's there was a chinese lefty player that use to beat 60% of the matches to kong and liu and was 96 national champion  but never was in the 1st team

Yes, it's strange to think about how there have been many high quality players we never heard about, since they were just training partners. 

These days we have CCTV online streams, so I think we can see all of the top quality Chinese players now in the CTTSL and national championships.

Edited by Anderni - 09/19/2012 at 6:06am

http://www.ittf.com/1997/RESULTS/Man/VIEWS/27.html

By Sportswriter Cao Jianjie

MANCHESTER England, (April 25) XINHUA - Chinese table tennis player

Zhang Yong is the man behind Liu Guoliang's Olympic victories.

The 22-year-old Zhang has been a sparring partner for Chinese star

players Liu Guoliang and Kong Linghui since joining the national team in

1993. Playing an aggressive game in handshake grip, the left-handed Zhang

is the Chinese "Rosskopf" or "Gatien".

"I have to owe to Zhang my victory over German Jorg Rosskopf in the

Olympic Games," said the 20-year-old Liu, who had been held in awe by

Rosskopf before Zhang rebuilt his confidence.

Liu had taken sweet revenge over Rossokopf with a 3-1 victory before he

beat teammate Wang Tao to win China's first Olympic men's singles title in

Atlanta last summer.

In the British Open early last year, Liu was so nervous in the deciding

fifth set against Rosskopf that he dropped his bat twice to the ground and

only got five points.

"Six months of playing against Zhang made a difference," Liu said.

During China's run-up for the Olympic Games and world championships,

the versatile Zhang imitates the ways that top Europeans play.

Playing like Rosskopf and France's 1993 world champion Jean-Philippe

Gatien, both left-handers, has become his specialty.

"When Chinese players are expected to face Rosskopf or Gatien in a

competition, they play against me first," Zhang said.

Zhang said Liu's Olympic victory over Rosskopf was the biggest-ever

reward for him.

"I have fulfilled my mission and proved my value in Liu's Olympic

victory," Zhang said.

Unlike most of the training partners in the Chinese team, imitating

western playing styles is a part-time job for Zhang.

Zhang, who got a doubles silver medal in the 1993 national

championships, won the singles championship in the 1996 nationals where

Liu Guoliang and world No. 1 Kong Linghui also competed.

In the CCTV tennis tournament late last year, Zhang outlasted world

champion Kong 3-2.

"I have a poor record against Kong, but I have won half of the matches

against Liu in the training," Zhang said.

Zhang holds a bigger ambition than beating Liu and Kong. "I am young

and I have confidence to be world champion by myself," he said.

For Liu Wenhua, a training partner for the women's world No. 1 Deng

Yaping, to be world champion is a goal beyond his reach.

The 28-year-old Liu, called into the national team after placing fifth

in a national competition in 1989, helped Deng regain the singles and

doubles titles in the Atlanta Olympics.

"Liu is an unknown hero for the Chinese women's dominance in the

world," said Chinese coach Lu Yuansheng.

Liu, who plays topspin game in handshake style, said his skill had been

on a downtrend because his rivals lacked men's speed and firepower.

"I always held an advantage when I played against Deng for the first

several years, but now I don't," Liu said. "Deng has bettered her skills

while I am on the decline. I has never reached the last eight in national

competition since 1989."

Liu holds no grudges as a stepping-stone for Chinese women's players

and he has recently refused a coaching offer from a European club.

"I am proud of what I am doing," Liu said. "When Deng and her teammates

beat their rivals, I am much happier than them." Enditem

25/04/97 12:54 GMT

Copyright 1997

Stellan Bengtsson of Sweden, Seiji Ono of Japan and J-P Gatien of France were World men's champions in 1971, 1979 and 1993 respectively, with the late Anton Stipancic of Yugoslavia the runner-up in 1975. Europe has been dominated recently by Germany's Timo Boll, who has five European titles, and in the past Mikael Appelgren of Sweden won three Euro titles in 1982, 1988 and 1990. Michael Maze was 2009 European Champion as well.

Feng Yalan-Chang Chenchen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7KzdRxjgq0&feature=youtu.be