Dima Ovtcharov's quality loss

Tony's Table Tennis said:

correct me if i'm wrong
didn't he get to world number 1 in the Poly ball era?

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vvk1 said:

You're not wrong. DO was WR1 for Jan 2018. Same month when the new ITTF ranking system came into place. And since then - rolling downhill.

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Astorix said:

I think Donic, his Sponsor, claims he is using their stuff and not he himself. misunderstanding here if so.

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NextLevel said:

If it was the old rating system, I suspect he would still be top 10.

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NextLevel said:

And the truth is that he is not that far from the top, he is losing to mostly the best players in the world. On the tour, Lin Yun Ju has been his biggest hurdle. IMO, he was supposed to beat Lin Gaoyuan, but the result was what it was. In the European games, he lost to Jonathan Groth, who only lost to Timo Boll in *all* the matches he played there. Dima also beat every other player other than Groth in *all* the matches he played there, including Freitas and Falck.

I think Dima just needs more time to find himself completely. I would be more concerned about Pitchford losing to defenders so consistently.

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yoass said:

I think his high may have been a bit of overreach, and his implied low a bit exaggerated.

He’s a fine second tier pro, and wuite constant at that, barring periods of injury and subject to slight form conjectural fluctuation.

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Tony's Table Tennis said:

I actually went to google, there is a dima official website.
I highly doubt that site is run by Dima himself.

There is a part for material - and guess what, have links to a shops website
http://www.dimitrij-ovtcharov.de/en/dima/
Why would Dima link items on his site to a shop called Schreiner. Doesn't seem like he is sponsored by this shop.
This shop only sells Donic by the looks of it. Maybe this is a Donic program

Secondly, looking at the current club info, this information doesn't seem updated.
Dima doesn't only play for a Russian club.
Maybe this site was up when he was using M1 when it first came out +/- 5 years ago.
There is maybe more content on a Dima facebook fan page, then this official site

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