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AcudaDave
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Hmmm...I played with Shuja at the NA Teams many years ago and he played inverted both sides. It's hard to believe he now plays with LPs on his BH, and is that SPs he's playing with on his FH? He was a solid 2200 - 2250 player when I played with him and he used inverted on both sides. It's hard to believe he could change his game so dramatically and still play at such a high level.
I also checked out the match with Oliver and he must have lost almost 100 lbs! He really slimmed down. Kudos to Oliver.
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I think the actual outcome of this match is the proof of that! I am still amazed though. |
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Shujar won the match. Yes, it's SP on the forehand.
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I really believe that if video of this match was to show up, the strategy that Tim employed would be taken apart. The other possibility of course is that Shujar has improved recently and is really not 2300... but his game reminds me of what I have heard about Bill Sharpe.
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Yeah - when I saw that, I wondered...
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besides the awkwardness of the pips the guy has a strange fh.
his fh loop is really a smash that's why nobody returns his loops, because people are used to playing against loopers who give arc and spin to the ball. he only loops with spin on opening loops, after that it's a half loop half smash (actually 90% smash 10% loop) Edited by puppy412 - 12/10/2013 at 10:16am |
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1. There are pips and then there are pips. There is a huge variety of long pips (and short ones for that matter) which are so frigging different you wouldn't believe it. Not to mention that difference in sponge thickness often turns same (or almost same) LPs into a completely different animal. I have played against many varieties of LPs (and sponges) and I am still often surprised when I play vs some new guy with LPs I never heard of and they play like nothing I ever encountered before. 2. Having said that, naturally you would expect a 2600-level player (young and smart, too) to be able to adjust quickly. So my guess - Tim was having a bad day in terms of focus. It happens like this - you don't sleep enough two days in a row, or you have an indigestion, or you are tired from previous matches, then you start playing a guy with some really weird setup and of course you lose the first set because his returns are very unusual. If at that point you fail to re-evaluate, properly decide on the strategy and be honest with yourself then you are screwed - one of the worst mistakes you can make in that situation is to tell yourself "I am so much better than this guy, I will just hit harder, spin faster, run more etc and I am golden". And then three minutes later - oops, you lost the second set. And now, when you are out of focus and you realize that you are embarrassingly close to a defeat from a 2300-rated guy with junky rubbers, it comes to your mental toughness and to the strength of your strategical thinking. If you make a mistake at that point deciding on your strategy for the next set... well then you are done. It can happen to anyone really. Remember that match that Tim had recently at a ProTour vs some guy from Belarus? He was leading 3-0 and smth like 9-7, 10-8 in the fourth... the fact that Belarussian guy was able to readjust and Tim couldn't do it (it being re-evaluate, re-adjust, execute new strategy) during the whole 4 following sets (and that's a lot of time!)... should tell him that he needs to work on this stuff even more than on looping and hitting. |
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So true! So many varieties, so hard to Play. Would you agree that some Players do have an advantage just because out of the many equipment-variations they chose a setup that is exotic and therefore hard for the opponent to adjust to? (Don't get me wrong here, I admire players who master their equipment, especially if it's an uncommon rubber/blade)
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seems to me this mistake that people make looping versus LPs is that they launch full power/max spin, - and what you get is super spin reversal....the most basic concept - yet if you watch the steven wang match - he opens up spinny, and pushes the next ball into the net - basically his own spin
to play effectively, you should incorporate a lower spin game, as that will lessen the complications for yourself (unbelievable chop coming back off a loop created by you), and will also give more problems to the LP player, as there is less spin to use. easier said than done as somebody before mentioned - LPs do not create spin - they can only reverse it i think one of the best examples i had ever seen playing vs an accomplished pushblocker was misha k vs peter c. except the difference is peter c does not attack, so, you can wait him out. playing against shuja is a totally different animal as his fh smash is quite lethal :)
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Regardless of the reasons that Tim lost, there really is a huge difference between a 2300 and a 2600. It's a great win by Shuja and frankly Tim has no reason to lose to such an opponent. I see Adam Hugh routinely destroy 2300 players by playing any style he wants to; looping thru them, blocking them down, lobbing them down, chopping them down with a LP racket, using borrowed equipment, whatever. The skill set (or the toolbox) that a 2600 has is far better than a 2300 in each area. May be Tim's technical fundamentals are not quite as sound as they need to be for his level?
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Completely agree NoFootwork. I'm almost 2200 and I would say a 2600 player losing to a 2300 player is more of an upset than me losing to a 1900 player or high 1800 player because at that high level his overall game is so much better than a 2300 player he really shouldn't lose. It happens though and maybe he just took the match too lightly until it was too late. Hopefully he won't let something like that happen again, and if he ever does play Shuja in a tournament again...it will be a smackdown.
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I agree. I sincerely doubt that Tim will lose like that again, and as others have mentioned, he could have just had a bad night of sleep or indigestion the night before. I know that when I play a tournament, a good night's rest and proper nutrition is a necessity for achieving good results. Plus, a 2300 player has developed many incredible skills. No matter what level you play at (except 2750+), you really have to be on your game to beat them.
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sorry if I am too honest and direct but to me Shuja Jafar is the greatest hero in the history of the United States of America. Edited by puppy412 - 12/10/2013 at 1:48pm |
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Why does the ITTF approve of so many different types of pips? Timothy lost for several reasons that's understandable but why is the pip universe so out of control? I say it's time for review by the ITTF to make better sense of it all. Pips players certainly have a place in our sport but somebody needs to clean up the play room.
Edited by frogger - 12/10/2013 at 1:49pm |
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To really answer your question, the ITTF has certain specifications for long pips and as long as a new rubber meets those specs it wil be approved. The same is true for inverted.
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Agree.
No pips should be banned. Edited by bogeyhunter - 12/10/2013 at 1:58pm |
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So where was Tim's coach during the match? He should be fired!!!
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I actually had lost 74 lbs but gained a few back since.. Went from 253 lbs to 179 (about 181 lbs in the video against Shuja).. Now I'm back to close to 200 lbs...
BTW, Shuja is a Psychiatrist.. Helps when playing with opponents minds :-D
Unlike me, Shuja's game is not as dependent on his long pips. He uses the pips to mix it up to get weak shots that he can put away with his crushing forehand. His forehand is his strongest weapon and the long pips are just a accessory for his game. He has gone the distance with many high rated players and it was just a matter of time until he would pull a big upset. However, the long pips on the backhand can turn into a weakness if a long pips player plays a specialist who specifically targets that side of his blade to exploit the weaknesses of such rubber. Style has lots to do with it.. I just almost went 5 games with 2650 rated Kai Zheng at the Westchester open.. He beat me easy in game 1 and I had a huge lead in game 2 and lost on deuce. Then I took game 3 and kept up with him in game 4.. With a little bit of luck, I could've had a 2:1 lead instead of trailing 1:2 and the guy is 2650.. Also took a game off Jennifer (yue) Wu in my prior match and kept the other games close. Table Tennis is a lot about styles and sometimes, those matchups work in favor of the long pips player but very often they work against us.. At the same Westchester tournament, I struggled against a 1898 rated player and only beat him in 5. The opponent (fadi) had medium pips on his backhand and a good forehand attack. He would not give me any spin and would tee off on any of my higher returns. This combined with fast, spinless serves gave me trouble. I was only able to win game 5 because I found out that his weakness was short balls into his forehand. As he tried to go for the kill quickly, he started missing once I returned short enough to his forehand so that he couldn't get under the ball.. Still, he almost had me and he was almost 300 points below me while I had a chance beating a player almost 500 points above me... Edited by Pushblocker - 12/12/2013 at 1:00pm |
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Answer to what? Your response added an element of the match that I was not responding to initially- placement. If you want a direct response then sure- unless there's a heck of a sponge, you can't really return anything other than a low-spin ball with the pips from a dead serve. But when you say "No matter where he places it" you're ignoring the most important part of a pips players arsenal. Dead or not, they can vary the pace and placement to keep you from putting the ball away every time. They will make you work for the shot as much as possible to develop a structure to the rally. Nothing was said about where a ball was placed in the original post I quoted. Only said you just need to serve a dead ball and put away the third the entire match. It doesn't work that way, and if it did then like I said above there would be no point in playing with long pips. There would be no defenders, no LP blockers. They'd all be obsolete because of the revolutionary dead ball serve. I'm not downplaying the dead ball serve. It's not the ultimate answer though, variation is a better one. I don't know what you're arguing with. I'm not really arguing against anything you've said. The point is what you said above, you have to be able to read the returns. I'm not arguing that, even though you're trying to make it sound like I am. Again: The post I referred to originally put it as the ultimate answer that you can just spam over and over. I'm not saying it's a bad choice. I'm saying you can't just serve dead the whole match and expect to put away every return. Nothing works that way in table tennis.
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Beeray1, I understand where you are coming from but I also think you are being too generous to a 2600 player when you allow him to miss attacks repeatedly. Watch the Middle Eastern Powerlooper play Pushblocker and give me a good reason why Timothy Wang should not be able to emulate that.
Dead ball is a generic name for light spin. There are lots of variations of light spin that we call deadballs and they are all not quote the same. Edited by NextLevel - 12/10/2013 at 4:25pm |
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If Tim were to vary the depth and placement of a dead ball serve, mixed with occasional underspin serves, he'd have no trouble finishing the next ball. Footwork is pretty much a non issue at the 2600+ level when playing an ox long pip many levels below you. The ox long pips can only generate so much speed on a spinless ball, and placement wise, even if he were to drop it short, a well placed flip would either end the point or set up an easy ball to kill. At the 2600+ level there really aren't that many balls that ox long pips can return that can't easily be hit for a winner. it's not like Shuja is a world class level player. There's a reason that of the world-class long pips players out there very few are using ox, and those that are use inverted on the other side, which is much more versatile than the short pips Shuja is using. There's obviously a lot of weakness to his style if he's only 2300 and being beaten by plenty of sub 2400 level players.
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I wonder why people is talking like beating a 2000+ player is easy just because he uses lps? Anybody who's is able to play at the 2300 level with pips must have some extraordinary skills and must have faced tons of players who thot a simple strategy can beat them… Its a good win, Tim probably had a bad day and Shuja probably had a great day. It happens, upsets happens all the time in sports I am enjoying the fact that this is turning into another pips vs inverted thread!
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Of course the "dead ball" serve is a god way to play against lp or anti players (like myself ) but don't you think the junk rubber plays do not realize this and practice that too. Do you think the dead ball serve is a secret only accessable to the attacker? At a 2300+ level you can expect that the junk rubber player has practiced that and has some sort of an answer to the dead ball serve. There is a counter strategy for every strategy in table tennis!
I used to have problems too against the dead ball serve and I have practiced that with a coach and bucket loads of ball. There are a couple of things the junk rubber player can do:
- block the ball short with good placement to avoid getting killed on the next shot (works well with slow anti)
- twiddle and attack with inverted rubber
- step around and attack with the inverted on forehand; has some risks but can be effecitve
- sidewipe; works well with lp but more difficult with (slick) anti
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those are all great ideas, and indeed work well, however Shuja has short pips on his fh, making twiddling/stepping around option pretty much useless against a higher level player like Tim. His only real option would be a well placed block, which as I stated before could easily be flipped to a good position by Tim. At Tim's level any ball that is blocked back too high can also be flip killed rather easily. Assuming Shuja returns a deadball serve with the most amazing touch, Tim's short game should be able to exceed Shuja's rather comfortably to win him the point
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ok what's your point, if the dead serve is kept low enough, do you really think the resulting counter stroke is gonna put Shuja at an advantage to win the point?
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A very bad day at the office for Timothy Wang indeed but these loses happen unfortunately sometimes and can happen for a lot of reasons at all levels. I am guessing brain freeze and taking the opponent a bit lightly may have been factors but kudos great win for the other guy who will be stuff of folklore for a few years to come and he deserves that. Always love the idea of the underdog pulling off an outrageous win.
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My point is that the dead serve is NOT the sure tactic to win against any junk rubber players and that there are counter tactics for it.
If you counter the dead ball serve and place it well the opponent won't be able to kill the ball and will likely loop it giving the junk rubber player the spin he wants to work with.
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why not just chop the dead serve. you are gonna be chopping all other ball thrown to your bh, why not start with serve? |
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