Wang Hao & Ma Lin sign for Russian clubs!

Steven · Mar 11, 2013

As the newly proclaimed head coach of the Chinese National Team, Liu Guoliang has more responsibilities than ever before. In his recent interview, Liu Guoliang has talked about his efforts in promoting table tennis not just to the world but also in their very own country. For him, athletes having to play for another country is one of the best ways to promote table tennis and at the same time, it increases the intensity in international competitions. In line with this, Liu Guoliang has revealed Wang Hao and Ma Lin to have signed for Russian Clubs.

Wang Hao - Photo by: Xinhua/Shen Bohan

Article doesn't say which Russian clubs they'll play for but it will certainly make the Russian league more interesting than it is now..

Source: TableTennisTa

UpSideDownCarl · Mar 11, 2013

Will that mean that their role on the Chinese National team will be more about playing in a league in Russia than it will be about playing in major tournaments and World Tour events? Is that China trying to figure out how to enable them to continue playing and still move them out of the way so the younger generations can emerge? Interesting news no matter how you look at it.

TableTennisDaily · Mar 11, 2013

UpSideDownCarl said:
Will that mean that their role on the Chinese National team will be more about playing in a league in Russia than it will be about playing in major tournaments and World Tour events? Is that China trying to figure out how to enable them to continue playing and still move them out of the way so the younger generations can emerge? Interesting news no matter how you look at it.

Agreed, looks like Liu Guoliang will focus on the younger generation next season. This will be interesting, Wang Hao in the Russian League! Epic!

jmillsy2 · Mar 11, 2013

Ma Lin has already signed for UMMC, don't know who Wang Hao has signed with. interesting news though!

AngelCarralero · Mar 11, 2013

I think Wang Hao could play for UMMC, too! Liu Guoliang says Wang Hao will participate in the European Champions League, but Ma Lin won't. Maybe because they´ll be in the same team...

jmillsy2 · Mar 11, 2013

AngelCarralero said:
I think Wang Hao could play for UMMC, too! Liu Guoliang says Wang Hao will participate in the European Champions League, but Ma Lin won't. Maybe because they´ll be in the same team...

maybe wang hao signed for Orenburg, they are still in the ECL.
whereas Ma Lin plays for UMMC, who are in the ETTU Cup.
then again, i could be wrong

Pongfinity · Mar 11, 2013

Interesting indeed. Very nice that some chinese legends come and play to Europe. Will be good for the sport

TableTennisDaily · Mar 11, 2013

These sort of transactions could really move the sport in a great direction I believe!

markog99 · Mar 11, 2013

lol the other clubs will be jealous

AngelCarralero · Mar 11, 2013

Super Chopper said:
maybe wang hao signed for Orenburg, they are still in the ECL.
whereas Ma Lin plays for UMMC, who are in the ETTU Cup.
then again, i could be wrong

I was talking about the next Champions League (2013-2014)... I don't think Wang Hao will play this season's ECL but if he does, it's sure he'll be in Orenburg!

jmillsy2 · Mar 12, 2013

AngelCarralero said:
I was talking about the next Champions League (2013-2014)... I don't think Wang Hao will play this season's ECL but if he does, it's sure he'll be in Orenburg!

ahhh ok...
well i think either they will be in the same club, and ma lin just wont play ecl, or ma lin will be UMMC and Wan will play for Orenburg..i dont know why they would play for any other russian clubs lol

too low a level of practice partners s in the other clubs is what im thinking of...

dici · Mar 13, 2013

anyway on the side note, timo boll and dima most likely come to next CTTSL. As LGL said they told him they want to play in CTTSL and get a better improvement too, and LGL have connect them with shang hai and jiang su team.

TTimur · Mar 28, 2013

As all of you might probably be aware, Ma Lin has arrived to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg to join the UMMC table tennis club. I've been tracking this awesome event via the club's official website - www.kntummc.ru (not sure if the English version is available). I have also sourced a very interesting video from the rather renowned Russian table tennis YouTube channel fed by Alexey Lomayev. Below you'll find the video of Ma Lin arriving to Yekaterinburg and of his consequent activities there. Although the video is in Russian (and, however, partly in Chinese) I believe one can easily grasp the overall sense and emotion behind the dialogues. An amazing thing was when Zoran Primorac and Hou Yingchao bet on whom will win the friendly game between Ma Lin and Yaroslav Zhmudenko, a Ukrainian player at UMMC. Guess who has won that game? Ma Lin imposed a disadvantage of 3 or 4 points on himself in that game. Another interesting thing was that one of the first Russian players who Ma Lin has seen in the training hall was Alexey Liventsov, a Ma Lin's nightmare at Harmony China Open 2011. Alexey Liventsov represents a Moscow based table tennis team "Victoria".

I hope you enjoy the video!

Oh, I forgot to mention that Ma Lin will take part in the 3rd stage of the Russian Club Table Tennis Premier League Championship on 28-31 March. Among his opponents will be Fakel Gazprom represented by Dmitrij Ovtcharov, Vladimir Samsonov and Alexey Smirnov.

Dan · Mar 28, 2013

TTimur said:
As all of you might probably be aware, Ma Lin has arrived to the Russian city of Yekaterinburg to join the UMMC table tennis club. I've been tracking this awesome event via the club's official website - www.kntummc.ru (not sure if the English version is available). I have also sourced a very interesting video from the rather renowned Russian table tennis YouTube channel fed by Alexey Lomayev. Below you'll find the video of Ma Lin arriving to Yekaterinburg and of his consequent activities there. Although the video is in Russian (and, however, partly in Chinese) I believe one can easily grasp the overall sense and emotion behind the dialogues. An amazing thing was when Zoran Primorac and Hou Yingchao bet on whom will win the friendly game between Ma Lin and Yaroslav Zhmudenko, a Ukrainian player at UMMC. Guess who has won that game? Ma Lin imposed a disadvantage of 3 or 4 points on himself in that game. Another interesting thing was that one of the first Russian players who Ma Lin has seen in the training hall was Alexey Liventsov, a Ma Lin's nightmare at Harmony China Open 2011. Alexey Liventsov represents a Moscow based table tennis team "Victoria".

I hope you enjoy the video!

Oh, I forgot to mention that Ma Lin will take part in the 3rd stage of the Russian Club Table Tennis Premier League Championship on 28-31 March. Among his opponents will be Fakel Gazprom represented by Dmitrij Ovtcharov, Vladimir Samsonov and Alexey Smirnov.

Thanks for this impressive info! So this is why Wang Hao replaced Ma Lin at this weeks World Team Classic.

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Steven · Mar 28, 2013

Seeing the Russian league attracting more and more top 100 players, the money these clubs seem to have and the young talents playing in the background,... I think in the future Russia could become one of the top-TT countries next to Germany.

PolishTT · Mar 28, 2013

He will play at Fackel Gazprom with Samsonov Ovtcharov and Smirnov???

TTimur · Mar 28, 2013

Dan said:
Thanks for this impressive info! So this is why Wang Hao replaced Ma Lin at this weeks World Team Classic.

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You're welcome! I'll keep an eye on that event and hope to be posting more news once they're cooked by Ma Lin and Co. As for the Ma's replacement by Wang Hao this week, you're obviously right.

I am basically a fan of the UMMC table tennis club and it was too tempting for me to post here the news about the club and Ma Lin knowing that not many Russian TT news sources are generally available for non-Russian speakers. Hope this disavantage will be improved as more and more eyes are on the Russian TT clubs.

TTimur · Mar 28, 2013

PolishTT said:
He will play at Fackel Gazprom with Samsonov Ovtcharov and Smirnov???

He will play at UMMC with Hou Yingchao, Tan Ruiwu, Grigory Vlasov, Alexander Shibayev, Yaroslav Zhmudenko.

decoy · Mar 29, 2013

well im moving back to Russia , sod Irish weather, Im coming back Baby.. i wish

PolishTT · Mar 29, 2013

Thanks a lot TTimur!

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