Article: Ma Long Reflects On Losing First Match In 5 Years!

TableTennisDaily · Apr 15, 2017

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Takkyu_wa_inochi · Apr 15, 2017

Of course the Korean player played very well, and is making his best tournament in many years, but I feel MA Long played made very unusual mistakes. Also best of 5, and a new ball, thats changing things a little bit, and putting some extra pressure as the margin for error is much less. He just proved he is a human and not a total robot.

On the other hand, the performance of HIRANO is on a totally different level because DING was playing her at her usual level.

CroneOne · Apr 15, 2017

What the? What was the change in the Nittaku ball? Why change something that works?

Takkyu_wa_inochi · Apr 15, 2017

why play with DHS ? every amateur in Japan play with Nittaku LOL

pepinho · Apr 15, 2017

The Nittaku 40+ balls are better than others. How many broken balls did you see in the matches? I did not see any. So?

laistrogian · Apr 15, 2017

He probably did it to do some more promotion for the DHS. I was surprised that nittaku is the ball used for a tournament in china.

He's not going to affect any opinion of the players though, almost every player knows DHS balls are shit

NextLevel · Apr 15, 2017

laistrogian said:
He probably did it to do some more promotion for the DHS. I was surprised that nittaku is the ball used for a tournament in china.

He's not going to affect any opinion of the players though, almost every player knows DHS balls are shit

You would be surprised. You would be surprised....

Yo be fair to DHS, their D40+ ball is similar to Nittaku and is excellent.

laistrogian · Apr 15, 2017

NextLevel said:
You would be surprised. You would be surprised....

Yo be fair to DHS, their D40+ ball is similar to Nittaku and is excellent.

Yes but what I'm talking about right now is their normal 40+ balls that are being used in most ITTF tournaments. For me it's just a real big bullshit how DHS probably pressured CNT to complain about the nittaku balls they're using for asian championship.

Also, if you watched the video TTD made where Dan interviewed the CNT players, all of them "prefer" plastic balls when probably all european players are complaining about it

NextLevel · Apr 15, 2017

laistrogian said:
Yes but what I'm talking about right now is their normal 40+ balls that are being used in most ITTF tournaments. For me it's just a real big bullshit how DHS probably pressured CNT to complain about the nittaku balls they're using for asian championship.

Also, if you watched the video TTD made where Dan interviewed the CNT players, all of them "prefer" plastic balls when probably all european players are complaining about it

I agree. What I mean is that some amateurs actually prefer those crappy balls as well and complain about the lack of spin on ABS balls. For me, consistency is far more important than spin.

vik · Apr 15, 2017

Why is champonship best of 5?

Baal · Apr 15, 2017

vik said:
Why is champonship best of 5?

yes, that is stupid. Matches should be longer, not shorter. Otherwise we might as well be playing darts.

Tony's Table Tennis · Apr 15, 2017

Baal said:
yes, that is stupid. Matches should be longer, not shorter. Otherwise we might as well be playing darts.

Tell that to the people who change 21 to 11 lol
on mytt years ago, I said, I'm waiting to see what the new point system would be, i'm guess 7 lol
and maybe best out of 5

NextLevel · Apr 15, 2017

I watched the "fault" call and it is another good example of why the idea of 6 inches between the ball and the hand is proof of a 6 inch toss is nonsense.

TTFrenzy · Apr 15, 2017

ma long always in mental trouble when the opponent takes the first set and plays solidly . Its not the first time the young korean has faced him in their previous encounter 6 years go ML narrowly escaped 4-3, jeong sangeun or whatever his name is commented that ML style suits him very well and he is very comfortable facing him.

As for the serve, I hope we wont see anything like that anymore especially in world events since it affects the game on certain occasions. The rule is stupid, even if it is applied strictly, hypothetically speaking because some referees do understand that they spoil matchplay, tossing the ball always vertical takes away from players specific types of serves like the reverse pendulum and the punch which require the ball to be close to your belly to achieve maximum spin and deception

Gourav Acharya · Apr 16, 2017

NextLevel said:
I watched the "fault" call and it is another good example of why the idea of 6 inches between the ball and the hand is proof of a 6 inch toss is nonsense.

6 inch rule is not shit. The ref was shit. I kept seeing the serve again and again, and it was definitely above six inches.Bad decision by ref. Completely frustrated ma long. He then kept tossing the ball higher and couldn't perform good serves.

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Zaid323918 · Apr 16, 2017

why didn't Ma just toss the ball into the referee's face? That is definitely at least 6 inches.

Baal · Apr 16, 2017

The guy is human after all.

MaLongFamily Fans Club · Apr 17, 2017

Full match of Ma Long against Jeong Sangeun recorded by @小汤圆和小橘子 (Sina Weibo). Please bear with the shaky hands.

Sali · Apr 17, 2017

Better to say "I had a bad day" then fault nittaku ball. As I understand both players had the same ball so both of tchem could have troubles adapting to it.

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