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Haha true. You can't tell people that they should toss straight up though. Or that the ball should be like max 5 cm away from going straight up, it would be even worse to measure that. If there are no rules, people will hide their serves and gain an illegal advantage. Rules protecting against...

Looks like there are quite a lot of penholders, that's cool :D I wish penhold was a more common style among European players as well, it is pretty exciting to watch.

Wow that is pretty awesome, congrats :D

Service rules are often not applied very accurately indeed. For example Par Gerell's service is pretty much the same stuff as Wang Hao's in terms of ball toss and covering with the body. But for some reason they don't get called.

Vladi would have tried to steal the point :p No but you are right, but I think in many occasions before a Chinese player would have just waited what the umpire decides and ignore the situation, maybe partly because they don't speak English? By the way here is Matsudaira - Skachkov highlights...

Yea that would be great, but they would have to move over to Germany, I don't think that's gonna happen :p

Great interview indeed :D Liam's chancces to play matches at Ochsenhausen went down I think, now that they signed Ryu Seung Min. It will be great for him to practise against Ryu though :)

I listened on ittv now in the Kim Min Seok game :p Prause is not 1 of the commentators there, 100%.

Indeed, I think the CNT as a whole showed some more nice things, such as Ma Long making a show with the round the net shot, Zhang correcting the score, and the team collectively bowing to the crowds after their victory.

Weird indeed, CNT had a training tournament with only 1 game matches a while ago BECAUSE Zhang Jike and Wang Hao are slow starters. Ma Long is more like a quick starter lol, look at the scores he makes in the first games of his matches. 11-3 against Dima, 11-2 against Oh Sang Eun. While Zhang...

Really cool Der_Echte!! Nice to have a look in one of the clubs there :D

I don't think it's Prause either. He would never be wrong :p

Nice :D Those shoes are kinda ugly by the way :p

Crazy way to end the first set lol. Epic shot. Also nice how the commentator explains the meaning of his name haha.

Wow awesome!! Can you believe the reaction of the Chinese bench lol... Moderate clapping, combined with a sleep spell stare...

The problem with the Chinese players is that there are not many foreign players that would count as a real test for them. However I believe Li XiaoXia lost her match at position 3 in the semi-final, but she played at position 2 in the final. So it maybe misses some logic indeed.

It's what they call a colored vision :p But psychologically it is not that weird in fact. Ma Lin has proven himself, LGL needs to approve of him and make him feel good so that he regains his confidence and form. Ma Long has to prove himself, LGL has to be tough on him so that he can show his...

Very dumb to do that. In this match, Gardos was winning anyway, but imagine it happening in a close exciting match. Those players work long time for a tournament like this, and then they get their serve faulted by an umpire who doesn't really know what's going on. On the other side though, it...

Any of their players against Dima is suicide, maybe Gerell would have a small chance but normally all their players will lose clearly to Boll and Dima.

Haha. Well it seems that many people are big fans of Ma Long on this forum ;) And there is many reason to be indeed. I guess Carl is right that Zhang and Ma are the strongest players right now for the CNT, and it would seem logic they go to London, and there they can decide who has the nerves to...