TBS9x wrote: tablet92 wrote: Jonan wrote: >..<  uuuuuuuuugh. Another freakin all Chinese final. And no warning on the serve, just losing the point and the game and the match? Of all the serves to call, unbelievable, they go whole tournaments without opening their mouths and the one they call ends up costing the semi-final match... Why are Japanese players so mentally weak? Look at how many close matches Mizutani drops...and Kenta the other day just falling apart and losing 4-0. And Fukuhara...she cries aaaaall the time... It's really easy to say when table tennis is just a hobby.. I'm not pro myself, but played many important matches in junior nationals and deciding matches in the first league of my country and from my experience it's very easy to completely lost your game, start to rush and start to stop thinking about tactics completely... Of course they are pros, but they are still humans. Just my opinion  Not a good thing to generalize that Japanese players are mentally weak...The problem is they are just not as good as the Chinese players, we have to accept that. Once you feel confident with your strokes, your mental game will be stronger. What about Kaii Yoshida? The guy always play to his best and always have a fiery game. But Mizutani was close to win, that's sad. I think one should not win few games in a row, might lower the focus and vigilance...

 

Today is a GOOD day.

Edited by tiehwen - 10/31/2010 at 4:06pm

tiehwen wrote: Today is a GOOD day. - Happy Hallowen Day, there'll be lotta kids come knocking our door for tricks or treats & my sunny & I have lots to offer them ALL. - Just came back from office, had abt 3 hours of work done (O/T  Double Pay!) - JM lost, haha. Don't or Never like JM's style of play, always lobbing, lobbing & lobbing.....Dull... - ZJK came from behind & WON, good stuffs... - China/WHao won the World Cup, Again!

tiehwen wrote: Jonan wrote: How many pro players cry after they lose? Just saying you never saw Zhang Yining breaking down after a match, and Zhang Jike didn't break out into a cold sweat and fall apart going down 10-2 in the deciding game... I think you're wrong..... MaLin cried after he lost vs JOW in 2004 Olympics. There was a clip I watched here in youtube that WLQ cried & covered his face w/towel some years ago.....

everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes

wang hao was so explosive this tournament. destroyed everybody

Wang Hao

Wang Hao is the King. He was fluent, calm and yet deadly.
He is finally back to his old self, guyz. I wonder if he is still dating Peng.

Although I never liked Ovtcharov's play before, I found he actually played very good against both chinese. And that he is real threat to chinese, not Timo. He could win ZJK if he didn't make few mistakes with easy balls in critical moments. Also, ZJK was very lucky in first game with net points/edges. Dima has what Timo hasn't, power. Nobody could return most of his openning attacks. And powerplay seems to be only weapon against ZJK& co. Tall and strong european players could outpower faster but weaker opponents, even in oppening loop, thats way to go.

World Cup 2010 - Timo Boll vs Mizutani ( BRONZE MEDAL MATCH)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGjJdhD6XA8

spin and placement is enough. Timo Boll's fh topspin is very powerful, Ma Long died of that in Moscow. 

david93 wrote: Does anyone have the full Boll-Chuang match? :)

Edited by naijachief - 11/01/2010 at 10:53am

Oh Sang Eun vs Werner Schlager

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4b1uH8f3A

Edited by GECA - 11/01/2010 at 11:33am

david93 wrote: I was wondering if anyone could upload it to megaupload ;)

I will soon upload finals/semis/quarters - unless someone has them already and will help me... ?

Final:

Wang Hao vs Zhang Jike
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y2C7ER52

3rd place:

Jun Mizutani vs Timo Boll
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6JQ47BYP

GECA wrote: Oh Sang Eun vs Werner Schlager http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4b1uH8f3A

Thanks a lot for this video, it is great to watch schlager.