Europe Smash Sweden August 14-24 2025

[d3nium]

Gauzyyyyy!!

Whadda player! And well done to Darko as well for making a superb match!

 

[doppelmoral]

Great match between Simon and Darko. Simon's matches are just incredible to watch. He played 7 full sets from mid-long distance, with such great consistency and incredible rallies

On a sidenote, both Simon and Bruna have been quite successful since swapping over to Andro. I think they both use the same blade too

 

[baotran]

France's men team members have reached 3 Grand Smash semi-finals this year. Now they are the real power house, not the "dark horse" like wttc 2024. Will Simon make a break through at this event?

 

[NetProphet]

My man Gauzy, still got it!!!
Looking at who's left, he has a proper chance to win this now 💪

 

[yamagata]

Cannot watch it unfortunately, since SVT has the rights to brodcast in Sweden but they chose not to. I guess they are not interested in bringing table tennis to the people contrary to their claim.

Like two days ago, when Hashimoto were about to play against Qian. They chose to broadcast some boring Wong vs Dima game that were already broadcasting on Youtube. Stupidity. Then yesterday, they were "forced" to broadcast Hashimoto since nothing else were on, and the commentator were utterly surprised that Hashimoto could put balls on the table!

Not all is bad though. The J-O Waldner side comments when they do send are priceless. For example, when Walther gave Shidong a good run he laughed and said that Anton did very very well to win a game against.

 

[yamagata]

They also cut the matches to rerun a Truls interview where he eats sushi with Harimoto. Swedish sushi get 8.5 score - not bad. They also run clips where they present Truls biggest rivals: Sun Jingsha, dominates the pingpong world, Lebrun, play like an "asian", Calderano unique serve that is a little bit tricky, Alexis Lebruns odd serve "The windscreen viper", Wang Chuqin chinas grandest athlete, Harimotos special style - he is a screamer.

 

[NextLevel]

Bobrow tells the story of a Chinese teammate chopper who learned to use anti so Chen Yi could get practice. Give that some thought when you think of team resources.

 

[doppelmoral]

Sabine Winter is playing so well, but cannot convert her leads into set wins so far

 

[zeio]

WS QF
Winter 1-3 CY (10) (-13, -7, -13, 11, )
G5 18, 38, 39, 69, 611
For most of G5, CY highlighted the weakness of anti once she got used to it. As long as Winter couldn't use the anti to set up the FH winner, she's bound to miss sooner or later, much like Ito.

 

[NextLevel]

She needs to get stronger at playing behind heavy spin and float combinations i think she would have won more games if she served heavy backspin at critical moments

 

[NextLevel]

The German analytics team I wonder if they have anything for Hugo. They got a lot of data from the last match.

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

SYS: Short pips?

 

[doppelmoral]

Duda has what it takes to beat Hugo
Still, Hugo's form is incredible, it won't be easy

 

[Metaxa]

Sabine is such a wonderful story
Glad I am aiding my little bit with sparring partners.

She is a wonderful person, and happy her story is getting better and better.

For her, it isn’t about OG or results but having some fun in her last chapter of her professional career

S. Winter went to a doctor and clearly helped her ...one to think about...

 

[Gozo Zyreruna]

Gauzy vs Jorgic.

The definitive most Euro'ish game ever. If there ever was a text-book version of Euro style play, this is it.

Most definitive pattern: Slow, unhurried, spin first game play.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

S. Winter went to a doctor and clearly helped her ...one to think about...

a doctor that Levenko also crying out loud for

and not to mention, Sabine had a lot of resistance, else we would of seen the anti this time last year already.
never the less, good story and table tennis needs more story out there (we only hear of bad stories, or bullying stories from teiba users)

Its not about the dark side or funny rubber, but about changing the impossible to possible.
ZYL is another good story I enjoy a lot!

 

[ThePongCommenter]

Great match between Simon and Darko. Simon's matches are just incredible to watch. He played 7 full sets from mid-long distance, with such great consistency and incredible rallies

On a sidenote, both Simon and Bruna have been quite successful since swapping over to Andro. I think they both use the same blade too

Gauzy's sponsorship with andro started many years ago, long before the recent renaissance of his career, so that statement isn't a very reasonable one to make.

 

[ThePongCommenter]

Bobrow tells the story of a Chinese teammate chopper who learned to use anti so Chen Yi could get practice. Give that some thought when you think of team resources.

HOW DARE YOU DEHUMANIZE CHINESE PLAYERS ONCE AGAIN

 

[doppelmoral]

a doctor that Levenko also crying out loud for

and not to mention, Sabine had a lot of resistance, else we would of seen the anti this time last year already.
never the less, good story and table tennis needs more story out there (we only hear of bad stories, or bullying stories from teiba users)

Its not about the dark side or funny rubber, but about changing the impossible to possible.
ZYL is another good story I enjoy a lot!

I agree on needing more good stories in TT.
Winter and ZYL, both rediscovering their joy for TT at later stages of their career, are great to watch

 

[doppelmoral]

Gauzy's sponsorship with andro started many years ago, long before the recent renaissance of his career, so that statement isn't a very reasonable one to make.

Yes but he used a wooden blade for a long time, and only fairly recently swapped to a new carbon blade