Does anyone here by any chance have old catalogues from legacy brands like Butterfly or Tibhar?
Any PDF's, perhaps? I'm getting a bit nostalgic.
I plan to ask around, some of the older table tennis people in my area must have kept some stuff around. If I get my hands on something interesting...
I feel like Truls could have been a more serious challenger to WCQ. This looks like a first round match, not a final.
Not that Felix fared any better... Bummer.
Truls' inability to pivot his game once his opponent is fully adjusted is a bit baffling to me.
Phenomenal mental game, though.
Chen Yuanyu is fantastic, looking forward to seeing what he can do in the future.
EDIT "I thought I was playing good table tennis, but you saw the scoreline"...
Many such cases lately. The umpire should make himself as invisible as possible, not the other way around.
In other news, Truls survives a scare.
Stream quality improved significantly.
I'm not gonna pretend I'm unbiased here, Zeljko is Croatian, what would be the point?
He has shown his athletic prowess on many occasions, but his surprise win against Samsonov as a teenager comes to mind. We had high hopes for that boy.
Darko's special place is his functioning brain, giving him a distinct edge over a certain type of player. Some credit here also goes to Matej Mamut as well, I suppose.
The article is behind a paywall.
But from what I gather, FZD must have felt mistreated by WTT. I wish someone would actually get into the specifics for once.
EDIT:
Here's what ChatGPT dug up: