Recent content by rooklynbounce

clearly the first clip is the best because of the clinched fists of the guy who thinks he's won the point!

Yeah. Unfortunately, I'm Swedish.

2:03. Disgusting skills.

Crazy ball.

I believe in Italy, due to the current scandal. They usually get stronger when they have the world against them.

I think Ma Long will win the Korean Open 2012.

Just to keep it alive: who _is_ the expert commenting? And why did he drop this comment about Zhang Jike? He sounded quite informed on other manners, but here he seems to fake it.

DaveCochrane, I'd say it's not good enough, or the umpires aren't reading it. It's extremely common with tremendously illegal serves not being called up at all, over and over.

Ok, who is it!? This is the same guy that I said seem to have a bias towards Bastian Steger. And the same guy that disagreed with the swede over that. He and the swede also have differing opinions regarding Zhang Jike being a slow starter. Can you give me an example where Prause comments?

No. Not the match against Svensson. In the match against Svensson the expert (a Swedish guy) actually talked about Zhang Jike being a slow starter. This was the game against Kim Min Seok. Listen yourself to see if it's Prause or not.

http://www.ittf.com/ittv/ If you go in here you can actually see the match in full. What the guy with the german accent says is: "I must say, I would have expected this kind of start from the likes of Ma Long, players who are known to have probably a few consistency problems, problems of...

Could be that it's not Prause, but I seriously doubt this guy could be from Spain. The accent sounds german.

Zhang Jike lost the first set in the match I'm talking about. The video here is a condensed version. Listen at 00:43-00:45 and you can hear the guy speak, I think its Prause. Unfortunately, the comment I'm referring to isn't included in the video. Earlier in the game he said he would be "really...

But wasn't he uninformed in this respect? He said that he would expect Ma Long or Wang Hao to lose a first set, but not Zhang Jike. Whereas Zhang Jike is known to be a slow starter, hence losing first sets all the time? I might be wrong, but this is what the other expert said, and this is what...

The thing that's really sick is that Ma Long did not lose a single set.