World Championships of Ping Pong 2014

Dan · Jan 5, 2014

Who's watching? Who do you think will win this time around guys?

vvk1 · Jan 5, 2014

IMHO, it'll be Shmyrev v Lupulesku in the finals. And there, Shmyrev will win because he can hit faster than Lupulesku.

Dan · Jan 5, 2014

vvk1 said:
IMHO, it'll be Shmyrev v Lupulesku in the finals. And there, Shmyrev will win because he can hit faster than Lupulesku.

Yeah I agree. After watching a few games of Rushton I really think he can make the final. These two semis are going to be great!

JikeChampion · Jan 5, 2014

Shmyrev vs Rushton in the finals for me

JikeChampion · Jan 5, 2014

Dan a Question. Why are extranges the rules of this tournaments? 15 points, doble points and what blades and rubbers do they use? Sory my english is bad

vvk1 · Jan 5, 2014

Heh, half of my prediction came true - Shmyrev v Lupulesku in the final.

Dan · Jan 5, 2014

JikeChampion said:
Dan a Question. Why are extranges the rules of this tournaments? 15 points, doble points and what blades and rubbers do they use? Sory my english is bad

This tournament is not involved with table tennis. It is under the ping pong association I believe. They have their own rules in sand paper contests. It is best of 3 up to 15 points. They all use the same bat. It is a sandpaper bat as seen in the picture below, very similar to the traditional hard bats.

vvk1 said:
Heh, half of my prediction came true - Shmyrev v Lupulesku in the final.

Good predictions hehe

JikeChampion · Jan 5, 2014

Thanks Dan. Shmyrev winn. Good match and excellent tournament!

TableTennisDaily · Jan 5, 2014

Congratulations to Russia's Maxim Shmyrev who has just been crowned Champion at the World Championships of Ping Pong!

Dan · Jan 5, 2014

Tinykin said:
Well, from the way they call the scores etc, they are not trained umpires. But good control of the matches nevertheless, especially remembering the order of serve after the bonus ball.

Good to hear Tinykin. The umpires from left to right of that photo are as follows: Kelly skeggs, cherith graham, klaudia szadowska, Barbara izyk, kinga oryl, Alex Evans, Ausra stirbyte, Abbie Hutchinson.

FuryToMax · Jan 6, 2014

Dan said:
Yeah just heard from Matthew Syed after the match that he plays full time in the Philippines. The sport is huge in the Philippines apparently. How you finding the event TinyKin? Enjoying it?

He's a long pimples player on rubber, but he also plays at a local club as part of their liha (Tagalog term for sandpaper) team. In June last year, Bojan Tokic came to the University of the Philippines for a visit, and one of the funniest matches was when coach Richard played Bojan on sandpaper! It was a pretty bad game for Bojan at 11-1.

After that, they both played rubber, and I assume you all guessed right, Bojan beat him (with a score of 11-4 or 11-5, if I'm not mistaken)

Dan · Jan 6, 2014

FuryToMax said:
He's a long pimples player on rubber, but he also plays at a local club as part of their liha (Tagalog term for sandpaper) team. In June last year, Bojan Tokic came to the University of the Philippines for a visit, and one of the funniest matches was when coach Richard played Bojan on sandpaper! It was a pretty bad game for Bojan at 11-1. After that, they both played rubber, and I assume you all guessed right, Bojan beat him (with a score of 11-4 or 11-5, if I'm not mistaken)

Haha wow awesome! I really enjoyed his style of play! I wonder if more top players will be attracted to this sandpaper event?

dugi · Jan 6, 2014

Dan said:
Haha wow awesome! I really enjoyed his style of play! I wonder if more top players will be attracted to this sandpaper event?

full hd videos for you: http://www.youtube.com/user/dugi25/videos

The final:

Enjoy !

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