Amazing comebacks

obesechopper wrote: Does anyone recall a video with a defender I believe, maybe Joo, around 2007 or so... Where the score was perhaps 10-4 or somewhere thereabouts and the guy ended up losing? I can't remember any of the players! I'm thinking it was chinese vs korean though... Wang Liqin?

Are amazing comebacks the same as biggest "chokes"?

'facing death' situation.....

You can't forget Kreanga!

Baal wrote: ... My habit is to catch people from far behind and then still manage to lose the deuce game.

I am trying to get better at this: what I find important is NOT being happy for coming back at 10-10 (If I am facing 4 game points I focus on winning 6 in a row). If I still have my time out I take it then and tell myself: "2 points match bud; you can do it".

I notice Schlager in the match above celebrates big time when he cancels the 4th match point out to level at 10-10; I think it is a mistake to do so at my level; obviously not at his.

I AM SO DUMB; it's referenced in the OP... (that I watched a long time ago). sorry.

stepheN wrote: Wang Xi vs. Shibaev, Champions League 2010, Fulda vs. Ekaterinburg Shibaev led 2:0 in sets (best of 5 sets, teammatch), 10:3. Then the party started:

Oh yes, I forgot that one... Thanks!

This does not satisfy the conditions but I find it the most memorable comeback given the importance of the competition:

Schlager-Wang Liqin  Paris 2003 WTTC

The indisputable #1 in the world, reigning World Champion at peak of his form (after the 2001 edition he would win 2005 and 2007 wttc) is leading 3-2 in games and has 4 match points in this wttc 1/4 finals; he let the game slip between his fingers and fell apart in the deciding game.

The Austrian man's achievement is even more incredible when confirmed by another win in the 1/2 v. the grand slam winner KLH and the final win v. JSH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GX_k7f3xGkU&t=434

All those hundred hours of serve practice paid off that day; and the guts under pressure; and that forearm snap at 7-10 answering wlq's fast fh along the line returning a fast serve from his bh corner...it was all magical.

Watch at 5:20 and enjoy!!!

JimT wrote: NextLevel wrote: Now, back to the topic - doesn anyone have the match that we are all dying to see - Yan An - Zhang Jike where Zhang Jike was 10-4 in the seventh and proceeded to lose? Where/when was this one played?

Edited by NextLevel - 05/24/2013 at 10:58am

On another slant, have you guys ever been totally out of a game and given up say at 2:8 down?

Samsonov - Ma Long in semifinal of World Cup 2009 ( comeback from 5-10 to 14-12 in 5th set)

Kasumi in the 2011 WTTC is probably one of the best comebacks i've ever seen.

JimT wrote: NextLevel wrote: I think we should make the following rules for the comebacks as people are citing too many OK comebacks which are not really "amazing": 1) The loser must have had at least three match points, likely more, and the winner must have been down at least 1 game at that point if it wasn't the deciding set. 2) If it was the deciding set, the winner must have been down at least 6 match points. 3) If the comeback was from 10-0, it doesn't matter what the score was at that point or who won the whole match if the person down 0-10 came back to win that set. I know there was a doubles match where a team came down from 0-10 to win a game during the WTTC 2013. I'd say that to qualify for "amazing" the match should satisfy the following two conditions:1) high pressure/major competition2) at least five (5) match points are converted to win the match OR    at least eight (8) match points are converted and set won (but match is later lost nevertheless) OR  at least eight points difference in score (8-0, 9-1) is eliminated and the set and match are wonBy these rules WLQ's comeback vs Ma Lin in 2007 WTTC MS final (from being down 1-3 in sets and 1-7 down in the fifth) is, alas, not "amazing" - although it is awesome.

I think you can call those turnarounds instead, or less amazing comebacks.

I think there was Guo Yue who beat Li Xiaoxia, in 2007? Don't remember how much Guo Yue was down.

NextLevel wrote: I think we should make the following rules for the comebacks as people are citing too many OK comebacks which are not really "amazing": 1) The loser must have had at least three match points, likely more, and the winner must have been down at least 1 game at that point if it wasn't the deciding set. 2) If it was the deciding set, the winner must have been down at least 6 match points. 3) If the comeback was from 10-0, it doesn't matter what the score was at that point or who won the whole match if the person down 0-10 came back to win that set. I know there was a doubles match where a team came down from 0-10 to win a game during the WTTC 2013.

Edited by cmetsbeltran15 - 05/23/2013 at 1:32am