The german website mytischtennis.de released an interview with a chinese Expert. The expert mentioned that the management of CNT could possibly suspend the 3 Superstars from the National Team. They won't play any events and would get out of the training structure. They will only be opponents for the younger chinese generation to get them better!
That would be drastic! Imagine: The 3 best players in the world, and also ML as maybe one of the greatest, just get pulled out of World Events
Here the Link from the interview:
https://www.mytischtennis.de/public...bdquo-vermutlich-karriereende-von-ma-xu-ldquo
Have you actually read the comments underneath the article? Maybe even a bit more interesting than the article itself!
Their (so-called) expert got called out for delivering nothing else but speculations.I don´t want to be belittleling his expertise but asking someone for his opinion who is still in China and of course he´s very dependant on the good chinese Relationship since he´s working for the German centres in Shanghai, so it´s quite unlikely to hear something critical towards the GSA or the involved politics behind this incident there.
And surprise, surprise at the end of the interview he even states that he doesn´t want to speculate about the reasons behind this.
Samewise you could go and ask Stephen Bannon about Donald Trump´s relations to the klansmen or o russia!
It´s pointless!
One commenter even wrote that the so called free west system in Germany ain´t even a tiny bit better than the chinese, and has brought up the exsample what happened to Thomas Keinath, as he got kicked out of the german Team, and that the german TT association has kept this undercover as well.
And even mytischtennis.de got called out for reporting that Thomas left the team on his own. And the reason for that they wrote was that Thomas wanted to play olympics, ´cause playin for Germany wasn´t possible, ´cause his ranking wasn´t high enough!!
Such a sore excuse!!
Not very nice what happened between Schimmelpfennig and our Thomas Keinath!
For those interested in Thomas´case, here´s a link to the german Forum tt-news.de that has been covering this story.
http://forum.tt-news.de/showthread.php?t=59839
Even the in Germany well known TT-Reporter and TV Commenter René Adler wrote about this for the DPA (german press association) back in the days when that incident happened.
BTW: mytischtennis.de could have interviewed someone else who also had some issues with the chinese association but isn´t depending on them too much. Maybe Li Ping, i don´t know. But there are also a few more that could fit this describtion. But interviewing Christian Sommer was totally pointless IMHO!
This is exactly what one would expect from a totalitary System like China but not so much from Germany! Maybe this also explains ITTF´s reaction about this incident!
I think this is also quite essential and important to know!!