ETTU European Championships 2024

[Lazer]

Lebrun throw his racket and may get disqualified for tomorrow’s doubles final!

Cheers
L-zr

 

[AutomaticBackhand]

 

[TampaBayTableTennis]

amazing!!! this tournament is always so much fun to watch. credit to ETTU. truls vs alexis and duda vs ovtcharov. sure to be some more fun here!!!

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

oh no Felix ... why...

 

[mikeytt]

According to a comment on reddit Felix broke a LED screen at the end of the match

 

[igorponger]

Lebrun throw his racket and may get disqualified for tomorrow’s doubles final!

Cheers
L-zr

Yes, this embarassing scenario is very likely to occur overnight. The final decision belongs with the Disciplinary Panel of 5 senior officials.

 

[Yuomay]

He should be happy, now he can focus on the WTT champions in Montpellier

 

[der Stift]

oh no Felix ... why...

Go to Felix's forehand, Xiang Peng knew that, Duda knows that.

 

[NetProphet]

According to a comment on reddit Felix broke a LED screen at the end of the matchView attachment 32631

No surprise that they're letting him play, absolutely no chance they would disqualify him from the tournament and ruin their own final. All puff and no smoke 😉
Should be a great match, I reckon Sweden will take it tomorrow

 

[dingyibvs]

Wow ... Duda does it!

Must be the service training with Craig!

 

[blahness]

Must be the service training with Craig!

Hahahaha yep, i watched the video and it was obvious he learnt some tricks there. Also with receive, he was receiving Felix's serves really well at the end which is really not easy to do because Felix has a lot of very tricky serve variations.

Somehow he started turning things around when he served with no sidespin (ie pure heavy under / no spin). That serve doesnt seem like much, but Felix had no chance of opening to topspin on it or creating some disgusting sidespin push to force a weaker opening to then enter the rally to dominate the rally. The funny thing was that Duda was actually better in the cat and mouse game of short push + 1st heavy FH attack, and much worse in the topspin rally game. So really in this match, Felix was more like a shakehand player and Duda assumed the penholder role.

 

[blahness]

Also Felix choked hard, he was leading so much at so many points in multiple games and became emotional and pissed away points easily after some lucky points by Duda and didnt adjust to Duda's variations.

 

[NetProphet]

Old news this but I just watched Szocs V Kaufmann R32, expecting a close match.
Szocs was absolutely brilliant, best I've seen her play in ages, almost everything she hit landed. 44-22 on points. 😳
That comes with the caveat of course that Kaufmann delivered neither the speed or the spin to cause enough problems but it was still a stark reminder of what Szocs can do on her day.

 

[zeio]

WS F is going to be boring.

 

[NetProphet]

WS F is going to be boring.

Szocs V Polcanova. Why?

 

[zeio]

Szocs has never beaten Polcanova in senior events. Never got more than 2 games. Unless something goes pear-shaped on Polcanova's end, I have a hard time seeing Szocs win.

Polcanova 4 H2H 3 Szocs
2024 Paris Olympics
R16 4-0
2022 ETTC Munich
QF 4-2
2022 Singapore Smash
R64 3-1
2014 German Open
R64 4-1
2012 Polish Junior and Cadet Open
JGS F 2-4
2011 Hungarian Junior Open
JGS SF 2-4
2011 Czech Junior and Cadet Open
JGS QF 1-4

 

[NetProphet]

Szocs has never beaten Polcanova in senior events. Never got more than 2 games. Unless something goes pear-shaped on Polcanova's end, I have a hard time seeing Szocs win.

Polcanova 4 H2H 3 Szocs
2024 Paris Olympics
R16 4-0
2022 ETTC Munich
QF 4-2
2022 Singapore Smash
R64 3-1
2014 German Open
R64 4-1
2012 Polish Junior and Cadet Open
JGS F 2-4
2011 Hungarian Junior Open
JGS SF 2-4
2011 Czech Junior and Cadet Open
JGS QF 1-4

Nevertheless it's 1 vs 2 on current rankings and Szocs is playing V well.
I actually reckon Szocs to win 😂

 

[d3nium]

Duda is playing a blinder here, full of confidence after his win over Felix.

 

[d3nium]

Dima has just been allowed to change his bat due to split rubber?

 

[AutomaticBackhand]

Duda up 3-0 wow.

Dima has just been allowed to change his bat due to split rubber?

What was the score when that happened?
Asking as a timestamp.