you wrote, that boll made over 1 million last year and that zhang jike couldnt afford one lambo? where is the sense? i think chinese player earn 5 to 10 times more than timo boll :D what he earns is nothing against the chinese players. i think zhang jike has a lot of money :D
yeah i just saw it on the ittf page. looked very disrespectful. he really said two word and the translator talked that much. cant understand. hope that someone could translate it. i could imagine that is just was like "say this ...". and the reporter is a very sympathic guy. love him :) :) but...
yeah thats true, but i think it looked that way, because oh sang eun is not a real topspin player from behind the table. he often plays in front with hard counters and blocks. and ma long had to handle this ;)
kim min seok also won against chen chien-an :)
i read that chen chien-an started playing at the age of 10 -.-" ... damn i started, when i was 9. and look what a nice player he is now ...argh
i often watch the ma long trainings videos. you can really learn from them. exspecially how he holds his left arm, when he is playing. i tried to do this on my own and it really helps. forhand and backhand became much more powerful and faster :)
yeah the next time, when a tournement is in magdeburg, i will be an assistant/helper and try to play with some stars :D would really like to know, how much spin they have in their serves and topspins.
In Bolls book, he said, that he was on a tournement and had no warm up partner. so he asked his father, who is a bloody beginner. and timo played that hard, that his father could control the ball and bring him back. and it was fun for timo