Who do you think will win the World Table Tennis Championships 2013?

  • Xu Xin

    Votes: 76 37.4%
  • Ma Long

    Votes: 75 36.9%
  • Wang Hao

    Votes: 14 6.9%
  • Zhang Jike

    Votes: 16 7.9%
  • Timo Boll

    Votes: 5 2.5%
  • Chuang CHih Yuan

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Dimitrij Ovtcharov

    Votes: 3 1.5%
  • Ma Lin

    Votes: 4 2.0%
  • Jun Mizutani

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Other (Post Below)

    Votes: 8 3.9%

  • Total voters
    203
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Agreed! :)

Jun Mizutani has a great shot I think.

He has had some decent matches lately, but every time I have seen him play in last couple of years, he just seems too passive (not aggressive enough) to win against top 10 players. All too often within first three balls of a rally he starts moving backwards and ends up in a lob-fest. Fun to watch, but you can only expect to win about 1 in 5 of those rallies if you are the one defending against a top player.

Samsonov is in a similar category unfortunately. In Men's World Cup last year he played very aggressive against Boll in first two sets and went 2-0 up, but then reverted to his usual counter-attacking / absorbing pressure style and let Boll dictate the pace and lost 4-0. Perhaps due to tiredness, but he should he can do it against Zhang Jike in Euro-Asia.

If only Mizutani and Samsonov could maintain that level of aggressiveness they could win against the top players, but without it, they will certainly lose to the first or second Top 10 player they come up against.
 
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Liu Guoliang said may be Yan An and Fan Zhendong could cause some big upset.

Ma Lin had lost 8 kgs weight during the closed training, he really want to go further in WTTC :)

Wow 8kg that is a lot! He must be training very hard, imagine if Ma Lin won, it would be a joy to see.
 
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