European Championships 2013 (videos)

benfb wrote: JimT wrote: Three more videos from Alex Lomaev (he was - understandably - videotaping mostly Russian players) Awesome videos.  Is this the same guy that did those terrific Russia Champions League videos?

No, that was user LehaFes (see his YouTube channel). Alex Lomaev is a PR/media officer of FNTR (Russian Table Tennis Federation)... hope I got his title right. He is also an avid photo/video journalist and goes (when he can) to all major European tournaments where Russian players are involved.

You can actually see him in many videos from ETTC 2013 videotaping or taking pictures...

Three more videos from Alex Lomaev (he was - understandably - videotaping mostly Russian players)

Round of 16 matches

Kirill Skachkov - Panagiotis Gionis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI5-24b6_xE

Alexander Shibaev - Bastian Steger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbgZ4wvAPaM

Alexey Liventsov - Stefan Fegerl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4tRIQYSdv0

(WD-F) Zhenqi BARTHEL/Xiaona SHAN - Petrissa SOLJA/Sabine WINTER [Full Match]

They are absolutely relative to the variable balance between perception and reality, indeed; just like the fh looping technique involved in the scholar emoticon's page turning skills above, with follow through and all!

NextLevel wrote: benfb wrote: Samsonov looked flat the whole tournament, in both team and individual events.  He would play really well for a game or two and then just struggle.  I realize he's past his peak, but I also think he just wasn't sharp, whether it was physical or focus I couldn't say. Clearly age - at 37, it's hard to play two matches in peak condition in one day.  That's why he was so on and off.  He tended to play the first match relatively well, but against the very best players in the tournament, two in one day or even three was tough.  It's been going on for at least 2 years now.

He should take lessons from Persson, who is quite a bit older and yet stays in great physical shape.

benfb wrote: Samsonov looked flat the whole tournament, in both team and individual events.  He would play really well for a game or two and then just struggle.  I realize he's past his peak, but I also think he just wasn't sharp, whether it was physical or focus I couldn't say.

Edited by NextLevel - 10/15/2013 at 6:33am

slevin wrote: skip3119 wrote: If anyone can give Chinese players problems, Ovtcharov will be the one. I wish. His main problem is his short game - it is too loose to continuously prevail against the CNT players. His BH push on the FH side is abysmal at his level of play - don't know why his coaches don't try amend it (probably because he commits to the BH sidespin flick too early). In a discussion on another TT forum, Schlager opined that DO's receiving with his BH on the FH side was due to his liability in receiving serves using his FH - don't know how much truth there was in his opinion. If he can fix his short game & his mental strength issues, he can truly amass some wins against  the Chinese.

slevin, thank you for sharing. good video.

Edited by iakovka - 10/14/2013 at 1:22am

skip3119 wrote: If anyone can give Chinese players problems, Ovtcharov will be the one.

Edited by slevin - 10/13/2013 at 4:26pm

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Edited by janus700 - 10/13/2013 at 3:15pm

blahness wrote: Unbelievable performance from Ovtcharov, he has proven himself to be the new European no.1 indeed! Such a powerful game, now his FH is as deadly as his BH. Still needs to work on those pesky short returns though, still a bit sloppy in that area.

Boll is still European #1.

Edited by NextLevel - 10/13/2013 at 1:15pm

FINAL

(ms-qf) SAMSONOV Vladimir - FEGERL Stefan [Full Match] 

EPIC MATCH!!

Samsonov Vs Fegerl

(ms-R64) KREANGA Kalinikos - HABESOHN Daniel [Full Match] 

Edited by janus700 - 10/12/2013 at 7:20am