2020 Qatar Open. March 3 to March 8.
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Topic: 2020 Qatar Open. March 3 to March 8.
Posted By: skip3119
Subject: 2020 Qatar Open. March 3 to March 8.
Date Posted: 02/27/2020 at 11:38am
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Chinese players will be there. |
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Posted By: Charlie Brown
Date Posted: 02/27/2020 at 11:46am
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you may have forgotten/missed this tidbit of info from a few days back? ------------- *sigh* |
Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 02/27/2020 at 12:46pm
| Wang Chuqin is finally allowed to play. He is in Qatar Open. |
Posted By: piligrim
Date Posted: 02/27/2020 at 1:02pm
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skip3119 wrote:Posted By: KiwiPong
Date Posted: 02/27/2020 at 1:34pm
What's wrong with Hina Hayata? Is she still not recovered from her injury? so sad 
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Posted By: kindof99
Date Posted: 03/02/2020 at 6:24pm
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Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 6:58am
Right. The published match time minus 8 hours will be US Eastern. Live-streaming is starting now. |
Posted By: NextLevel
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 7:46am
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Looks like no hand shaking at Qatar because of Covid-19. ------------- https://youtu.be/jhO4K_yFhh8?t=115" rel="nofollow - I like putting heavy topspin on the ball... Stiga Cybershape Carbon FH: GT BH: GT Lumberjack TT, not for lovers of beautiful strokes. No time to train... |
Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 7:55am
================== I noticed that that they did not shake hands. -------------------------------- The promising young player from Sweden, Moregard Truls is playing against Fang Bo on table 1. (Bad draw for Moregard Truls, I guess.)
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Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 8:01am
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Wait a minute, Moregard Truls won the first game easily. This young man got talent. But still, for him to win is a tall order. ==================== Moregard leads the game: 2-1. |
Posted By: DonnOlsen
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 8:15am
One of the things one must appreciate about the Swedes is their ability to resist all influences of fashion and clothing technology advancement in the selection of their team shirts. They are not going to be caught dead in those beautiful shirt designs and materials of the Chinese or Japanese or the tastefully presented shirts of the Germans. Oh no, not the Swedes! If they continue to wear white at Wimbledon, then the Swedes too can hold up their contribution to tradition for the sake of tradition. Thanks. ------------- Tenergy: Two weeks of heaven, followed by three months of excellence, then, a nice rubber. |
Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 8:20am
| Too many times, the streaming freezes. |
Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 8:39am
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Moregard Truls vs Fang Bo. Game: 3-3. Moregard got a chance right here.
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Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 8:49am
| Incredible, Moregard Truls beat Fang Bo, 4-3. |
Posted By: TTslurp
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 9:12am
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Well done Moregard!
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Posted By: Odie
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 9:15am
| Is that his best win yet? |
Posted By: NextLevel
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 9:43am
Not sure why you think it was a tall order. Fang Bo has lost to lesser players recently. ------------- https://youtu.be/jhO4K_yFhh8?t=115" rel="nofollow - I like putting heavy topspin on the ball... Stiga Cybershape Carbon FH: GT BH: GT Lumberjack TT, not for lovers of beautiful strokes. No time to train... |
Posted By: Egghead
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 9:59am
no kidding, five people infected because of playing tt   ------------- Aurora ST: Rhyzm / Talent OX |
Posted By: tom
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 10:38am
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Posted By: KiwiPong
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 11:05am
| He beat FB 4-3, 12-10! |
Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 12:18pm
Has lost to steger masato shiono eugene wang etc. Dont know why still playing
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Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 3:56pm
====================== According to you, Moregard Truls should quit (because of those losses)? Great logic, critical thinking. Can not argue with you, your brain is just too advanced for me.
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Posted By: tom
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 4:35pm
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Posted By: piligrim
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 5:03pm
| Akkuzu Can should be called scremuzu. He scream after each time he hit ball |
Posted By: stiltt
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 6:32pm
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I always saw Moregard as a great contender for the top spot. His talent is high up there but hormones helping, he goes too fast, too quick, too hard, too flat too often but isn't that kind of rushing an asset in table tennis? if the coaches can focus that energy in a sustainable plan, with time he will settle a bit closer to the middle and be more patient. It's happening now and his best has yet to come. ------------- /forum/topic91512_page1.html#1124698" rel="nofollow - sales - forum_posts.asp?TID=19315" rel="nofollow - feedback |
Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/03/2020 at 11:38pm
Do you know what is common sense? Fan bo lost to steger masato not truls..
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Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 1:20am
Bitterness is the real virus
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Posted By: Lightspin
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 2:12am
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The match is on the ITTF youtube channel. It looks like Fang Bo is very injured but still tried to play. He could barely move at all compared to the way he usually plays. |
Posted By: NextLevel
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 6:14am
Earlier this year, he lost to Niagol Stoyanov, a player he has no business losing to. Something is just wrong with his game maybe injury. He actually played better here. ------------- https://youtu.be/jhO4K_yFhh8?t=115" rel="nofollow - I like putting heavy topspin on the ball... Stiga Cybershape Carbon FH: GT BH: GT Lumberjack TT, not for lovers of beautiful strokes. No time to train... |
Posted By: AndySmith
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 7:02am
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Darko's hitting is super clean at the moment. Great form. ------------- This was a great signature until I realised it was overrated. |
Posted By: DonnOlsen
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 9:14am
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Hi, [It's 9:15 a.m. Eastern Time USA] Lily is playing on Table 1 today [Wednesday March 4] at the listed time of 18:30. Thanks. ------------- Tenergy: Two weeks of heaven, followed by three months of excellence, then, a nice rubber. |
Posted By: DonnOlsen
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 10:33am
Lily's match is on right now: 10:30 a.m. Eastern March 4th. Table 1. ------------- Tenergy: Two weeks of heaven, followed by three months of excellence, then, a nice rubber. |
Posted By: mentortt
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 3:12pm
| Big test tomorrow: Gu Yuting vs Mima Ito. Ito has losing records against GYT. If she can pass that, she will easily join top 4. |
Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 6:36pm
====================== Head-to-head record: Gu Yuting vs Mima Ito https://results.ittf.link/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=list&listid=87&Itemid=240&resetfilters=0&clearordering=0&clearfilters=0" rel="nofollow - https://results.ittf.link/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=list&listid=87&Itemid=240&resetfilters=0&clearordering=0&clearfilters=0
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Posted By: BRS
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 6:50pm
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Sort of a better record. But if you leave out mat ches when they were minicadets, Mima won in 2017 and 2018, GYT won in 2019. 2-1 Mima. Tomorrow could go either way, GYT is a good player. And she has lovely hands. Could be a hand model if table tennis doesn't work out.
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Posted By: Egghead
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 7:13pm
And, the harimoto tomokazu vs chuang chih-yuan match too ------------- Aurora ST: Rhyzm / Talent OX |
Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 9:34pm
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Harimoto Tomokazu vs Chuang Chih-Yuan Head-to-head: https://results.ittf.link/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=list&listid=87&Itemid=240&resetfilters=0&clearordering=0&clearfilters=0" rel="nofollow - https://results.ittf.link/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=list&listid=87&Itemid=240&resetfilters=0&clearordering=0&clearfilters=0 |
Posted By: DarkerMyLove
Date Posted: 03/04/2020 at 10:51pm
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Harimoto Tomokazu vs Chuang Chih-Yuan also had a February 8th Japan T-League match that CCY came back from down 0-2 to win 3-2. It should be an interesting match-up.
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Posted By: jackwong23
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 7:50am
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my early predictions Ito will beat Gu YT Hari will beat CCY Another first round exit for Wct
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Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 7:50am
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Ito Mima vs Gu Yuting. Live, now.
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Posted By: piligrim
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 9:15am
| some players shake hands, some don't ... |
Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 9:26am
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Harimoto Tomokazu vs Chuang Chih-Yuan is about to start on Table 1. |
Posted By: idk
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:09am
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Chuang has been in great form lately. With lin yunju, taiwan is a threat |
Posted By: idk
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:18am
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Chuang 4-2 Harimoto |
Posted By: DarkerMyLove
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:24am
| Not sure when CCY switched to the ZJK Super ZLC and Tenergy 05 Hard but he has been playing well with it the last 3 months. I remember sometime in 2019 he was still using his old blade and T05 and T64. |
Posted By: jackwong23
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:25am
Taiwan has been a strong TT nation since the mid 90s.
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Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:28am
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Chuang Chih-Yuan beat Harimoto in 2020 German Open. Now he beat Harimoto again in this 2020 Qatar Open. Man, CCY is getting old, but he still got it. CCY has been around for a long long time.
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Posted By: jackwong23
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:31am
CCY still can beat most of the top 20 ranked players.
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Posted By: idk
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:37am
My point is that Chuang is back from the drama that had him away from the team last year, and I don't think they've had two players of this caliber in a while. If a third player can hold his weight they could seriously contend for silver or bronze.
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Posted By: idk
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:38am
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Wang Chuqin back with a bang. Murdered Freitas. |
Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:40am
| Wang Chuqin beat Freitas Marcos, 4 - 0. |
Posted By: jackwong23
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:49am
Agree mate. CCY and Chiang Peng lung also formed a dynamic duo in the mid 90s.
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Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 10:56am
| Lin Yun-Ju, CCY, and Chen Chien-An ????? |
Posted By: tom
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 11:21am
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Posted By: idk
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 11:41am
Two out of three correct, and the Harimoto/CCY match could've gone either way Ito 4-1 Gu, Uda 4-1 WCT
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Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 11:45am
================== He got two correct: item #1 and item #3. He got one wrong (item #2): CCY beat Harimoto.
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Posted By: jackwong23
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 11:46am
Thank you sir, except the wct match, these match results are so unpredictable.
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Posted By: tom
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 12:01pm
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Posted By: flamingmdn
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 12:29pm
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Samsonov 4-3 Lin Gaoyuan Wow. ------------- Gewo Sensus Carbo Speed | Vega X |
Posted By: skip3119
Date Posted: 03/05/2020 at 2:49pm
==================== Samsonov has long passed his prime. But he still got it, very impressive.
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Posted By: benfb
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 2:11am
| maybe I missed a posting or something, but anyone know why Timo isn't present? |
Posted By: Baal
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 10:05am
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People who express their disdain and hatred of this forum and who go out of their way to push boundaries disappear from the forum. Since they obviously hate the forum they shouldn't miss it, right? |
Posted By: kakapo
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 12:04pm
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CCY is really a diesel. He did it again, this time, down 1-3. Well done ! ------------- Def play grey grip 94gr, Venus 2 blue 2,2, Neubauer KO extreme 1,3mm |
Posted By: mentortt
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 12:32pm
| ML vs WCQ is live now. So close! |
Posted By: NextLevel
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 12:33pm
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Am I the only one who finds it crazy that a player that is possibly the best in the world is warming the bench for the CNT? ------------- https://youtu.be/jhO4K_yFhh8?t=115" rel="nofollow - I like putting heavy topspin on the ball... Stiga Cybershape Carbon FH: GT BH: GT Lumberjack TT, not for lovers of beautiful strokes. No time to train... |
Posted By: NextLevel
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 12:35pm
They actually already do with Chien Chen An. I consider them a medal favorite for the team Olympics. ------------- https://youtu.be/jhO4K_yFhh8?t=115" rel="nofollow - I like putting heavy topspin on the ball... Stiga Cybershape Carbon FH: GT BH: GT Lumberjack TT, not for lovers of beautiful strokes. No time to train... |
Posted By: mentortt
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 12:46pm
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Agree. It is not surprising ML will quit as athlete after olympics. He needs help WCQ this kind of player.
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Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 1:54pm
WCQ is a beast without leach
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Posted By: tom
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 2:58pm
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Posted By: mentortt
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 3:36pm
| Although few upsets, it is still high probability CNT teams will win all 5 golds. No matter what, it seems Ito will be high chance #2 in ranking. Enjoy Saturday matches. Not sure when next ITTF platinum tour will happen. |
Posted By: stiltt
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 4:11pm
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I called it 3 years ago when he was still 16 yo http://mytabletennis.net/forum/wang-chuqins-backhand_topic78763_post974519.html" rel="nofollow - http://mytabletennis.net/forum/wang-chuqins-backhand_topic78763_post974519.html ------------- /forum/topic91512_page1.html#1124698" rel="nofollow - sales - forum_posts.asp?TID=19315" rel="nofollow - feedback |
Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 4:31pm
I checked him when he was 14
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Posted By: DHS PPK
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 4:36pm
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The closed history and theory of Olympic table tennis participation. As much discussed and concluded more times on this forum than I care to recall but scientifically the Olympics is best to be accurately analysed as a selective closed sporting event (note not open competition in its literal and accurate sense) whereby the Olympic spirit prefer a global community of some and NOT all of the most (as proven by open tournament performance records) sports participants. Because of the history and continuing domination of a particular association (through merit, skill and no other fault) the Olympics is now a best of the rest lesser sporting “competition”. Therefore in this particular sporting table tennis (under ITTF rules) meeting only one or a maximum of two participants may be invited per association as although you may have arguably the usual four or even more regularly most winning players in a real fair and open tournament from the usual most winning association you will have no opportunity to exercise your skill and potentially overall winning abilities as you can only do so if you represent a new lesser association as one of two leading players from this other lesser association and then be allowed to complete despite your ability and proven open tournament winning record. Having one or a maximum of two players from any association would therefore as evidenced in past more open Olympic Games ensure that there is technically no possibility of the clean podium sweep. In the past it is evidently clear that the third bronze medal have been awarded to possibly a player who may have otherwise not been able to reach the semi finals in a knock out open tournament if all other normally more wining players also entered the same competition. Conversely the Olympics rather has an extreme open acceptability and global community spirit as in past games new non geographic stateless amateur refugee participants were invited despite their evidently much lower sporting ability. Taking the same pure sporting performance train of thought this indeed also is to the disadvantage to even more players of higher proven open tournament track winning records as essentially the Olympic sporting standards have been lowered to a very extraordinarily mixed ability performance level. Perhaps if some players and regular proven open tournament winners can temporarily gain an invitation through representation of a UN refugee stateless status or perhaps a new as yet unrecognised quasi nation then players like the obvious ones mentioned in the above post and many others may be able to “compete” or at least have the opportunity to defeat lesser performance level “qualifying” Olympics players who are evidently making up numbers as “Olympian participants” along the line of invited judges and umpires as proven time after time until perhaps some new young as yet undiscovered rising star some how emerges on to the scene through Olympic participation and we all know from repeated history which association(s) those players factually have materialised from! Let the snowflakes remote keyboard warrior “experts” begin their fun and games but hey be nice and be kind as it’s only sport and this time I do not require you to take my words out of context as the debate is over as hey perhaps who knows maybe this Olympic low level circus may be avoided this time round until the next one with perhaps again changing the rules to only maximum one player per association or let’s just say what it is an outright ban on players who have a fair likelihood of winning to be banned for being too good and from the same always winning association! Perhaps they should also ban doubles because you need to stop the one same association any chance of taking that winning medal too! ------------- Da Hot Shot Ping Pong King - Ping Pong Fung Fu - shake hand Shoaling + pen hold flying dagger style Loop to kill not kill to loop - gifted by nature - lazy by choice |
Posted By: Lightspin
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 5:10pm
Possibly the best in the world? Based on what results? https://ranking.ittf.com/#/players/profile/121558/tournaments" rel="nofollow - https://ranking.ittf.com/#/players/profile/121558/tournaments And for the reading impaired: 1) Just because I dont think WCQ is the best player in the world, I do not hate him 2) Just because I dont think WCQ is the best player in the world, I do not think he is a terrible player Thank you
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Posted By: stiltt
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 5:33pm
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Posted By: tom
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 5:33pm
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Posted By: tom
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 5:36pm
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Posted By: Lightspin
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 5:52pm
I learned my lesson when I posted that I thought Kanak was not one of the top 30 players on the planet. People assume I hate Kanak or think he is terrible. This is not the case. Now I worry people will think I hate WCQ or think he is terrible. This is also not the case. Even with a disclaimer it might be too dangerous to comment on HT or WCT so I will refrain, for now.
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Posted By: BRS
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 5:59pm
Maybe you should just focus on the women's game? They are a lot if fun ti watch,and internet peeps seem less OCD about them. Except for Zeio's thing with Ishikawa of course.
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Posted By: Lightspin
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 6:02pm
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BRS, I appreciate your advice. Thanks for looking out for me. |
Posted By: NextLevel
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 6:36pm
While he was suspended, he was told he would be allowed to participate I the Marvelous 12 only if he won the trials without losing a match. He went 20-2, and won the trials but of course didn't get to play. The lid has had a very high level for a while and anyone who watches him a lot can see that there is something special about the quality and pace of his play because he does it with extremely high consistency. It will be interesting to see how things pan out for him over the next few months. ------------- https://youtu.be/jhO4K_yFhh8?t=115" rel="nofollow - I like putting heavy topspin on the ball... Stiga Cybershape Carbon FH: GT BH: GT Lumberjack TT, not for lovers of beautiful strokes. No time to train... |
Posted By: NextLevel
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 7:41pm
The issue with Kanak is more nuanced than that. I watch a lot of table tennis. Maybe not just letting the stats determine my evaluation of the players biases me. If you watch the players as much as I do let me know (and no I don't think it is required or good to do so). What gets me about Kanak is that everyone I speak to is more intimately familiar with his failures than his successes because the people who should be most excited about him (Americans) show very little familiarity with his results. I was speaking to a friend at my club and he left that Kanak was behing both Gustavo Tsuboi and Hugo Calderano. I had to tell him that Kanak usually beats Guatavo in recent times and that he has gotten closer and closer to getting his first win vs Hugo. The issue is not whether he is top 50 or top 30 or top 100. The issue in my view is that Americans are just not knowledgeable enough and excited about the achievements of their best players. After barely losing to Gustavo in Puerto Rico while clearly struggling, Kanak played Gustavo in the German League and beat Gustavo 3-1. Someone called that a good win. At this point, it is nothing unusual for Kanak. Yet we are still stuck in this view of American TT as only something non professional kids play. ------------- https://youtu.be/jhO4K_yFhh8?t=115" rel="nofollow - I like putting heavy topspin on the ball... Stiga Cybershape Carbon FH: GT BH: GT Lumberjack TT, not for lovers of beautiful strokes. No time to train... |
Posted By: stiltt
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 8:27pm
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Posted By: Lightspin
Date Posted: 03/06/2020 at 8:52pm
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WCQ’s performance at China’s internal trials is strong evidence that he is one of the very best in the world. I would like to see him perform better internationally before I would put him in the top 3. He’s definitely top 10 and has a good chance to be world champion. I follow table tennis a bit too much. I have my own ideas about what a top 10, top 50 or top 100 player looks like based on their results and how they play. Kanak is ridiculously good. Go hit with anyone in the top 1000 and their level will be amazing. Top 50 players have insane skill sets. I think Kanak is right around that level. He is still young and improving so there is no telling where he will end up. Especially based on his last few performances.
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Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 12:22am
I downloaded a ittf final junior circuit where wcq played when he was 14 must be on youtube..I was amazed by then he had some true nasty serves a lot of players ate his serves
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Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 12:29am
I had another name but not for backing my opinions as the poster we all kn now kinda password didnt work but since 2014 I msuch a wcq fan the kid is a prodigy maybe he can be the fist male lefty champion as CNT coaches dislike lefty players Firts tournament of wcq I recall was junior circuit in 2014 and a tournament in argentina pretty nasty play for such a young age Btw tom kinda of leftdown you take JW words
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Posted By: tom
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 8:12am
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Posted By: chongqinghotpot
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 9:22am
I am an American and have watched Kanak playing since he was 8 or 9, and am very familiar with his achievements nationally as well as internationally. Even though I am very proud of him, as soon as I mentioned his lack of power in FH, I am labeled as a Kanak hater. I guess some of his fans just can’t handle an honest opinion, or worse, the truth. You know what, now I don’t really care to be a Kanak hater anymore. I still don’t think he will be a real top world player (top 5) unless he dramatically improves his FH. ------------- USATT rating 2200 05Vis64 |
Posted By: BRS
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 9:50am
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Statistically, predicting that anyone who is not now a top five WR player will not be top five wr in the future is extremely safe. For obvious reasons an overwhelming majority of top 50 wr players never enter the top five. More than 90%. As noted in the thread they are still quite good players. |
Posted By: jackwong23
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 9:58am
| Ding Ning had absolutely no chance against Ito Mima, who reminds me alot of Deng Yaping. Both have similar heights with close to the table counter attacking style of play and minimal use of topspin strokes. Ito's level of play gives us the perspective how good Deng was as a player. I have no doubt Deng would still dominate the women's game today if she is still an active player in her prime. |
Posted By: NextLevel
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 10:28am
Many *legendary* players *never* reach the top 5 so I am happy you have such a high standard for Kanak - Mizutani for example has only hit the WR of 4 once and I think Harimoto is barely there. Freitas I think peaked at 7. Maze peaked at 8. Gauzy and Niwa have never been there. Karakasevic was never even in the top 20. Neither was Bojan Tokic, and people will never tell you that those aren't world class players. Lack of power on the forehand is one aspect of the game, there are many good players with relatively less powerful forehands, the one that comes to mind for me is Lin Gaoyuan and another is Koki Niwa. Quadri Aruna has a relatively crappy backhand, and he managed to get to the quarter finals of the Olympics with that backhand. Even imbalanced styles survive in table tennis, the issue is when we allow that to exclusively define our appreciation of a player rather than the results that show the story is much more interesting than that. Kanak's overall game lacks the kind of power that you would expect for top level table tennis but this was a criticism of CCY as well and CCY has had a great career and is Kanak's role model. Kanak has beaten and outperformed many of the European players with the more powerful forehands at this stage of his career. Yet you hear many people point out that this European player who Kanak has reliably outperformed has more potential than Kanak just because his forehand is more powerful than Kanak. Which means that Kanak must be doing a lot of other things that that player doesn't do but which don't get appreciated because... Kanak doesn't fit the description. And I think that is the issue people have with Kanak - he doesn't fit the description.
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Posted By: BRS
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 11:01am
| The only legit criticism of Kanak is that he has a WR advantage due to being NAican. But somehow I never hear peeps say Hugo benefits from the same advantage from SA. |
Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 11:12am
Let him alone in his " theories" maybe you can find him in a some area 51 discussion forum
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Posted By: jfolsen
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 11:24am
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So XX plays men's doubles and China wins. XX doesn't play mixed doubles and China loses to Japan. Guess what XX will be doing in the Olympics, presuming they are held. |
Posted By: pdotec
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 11:30am
At 19 yrs old WCQ is the leading player to compete against TH Lin Truls 3-4 years from now when XX, ML, FZ are past their prime. He is the future of Chinese dominance.
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Posted By: mykonos96
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 12:56pm
FZ passes his prime based on what? He s 22
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Posted By: idk
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 3:46pm
poor reading comprehension
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Posted By: hleett
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 5:14pm
Notice HT didn't shake hands with CCY after losing the match?
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Posted By: idk
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 5:48pm
Not sure what that has to do with the post you are quoting but nobody is shaking hands in this tournament because of COVID19.
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Posted By: tom
Date Posted: 03/07/2020 at 7:24pm
| who is taking FZD over WCQ and CM over Ito or vice versa? |