Ahhh timo boll knocked out???

[TTANKEY]

OMG!! I cannot imagine Timo, the legend of table tennis, knocking out... I don't have the video of the game (Timo Boll vs Jung young sik), so, if someone have, plz post here...
Hey, what do you guys think that happened to Timo Boll??

 

[WiWa]

I think he read the competition thread and all the votes for him put too much pressure on him

Or he wasn't really familiar with Jung Young Sik because after all Jung is a youngster, and this often gives trouble to many players in their first encounter against young talented players. Like Ma long losing to Koki Niwa, Oh Sang Eun losing to young Zhang Jike and Liu Guoyan years ago, Boll losing to 16-yr old Ma Long, Ma Lin almost losing to Kenta Matsudaira in 2009 WTTC and so on. It just takes some time to get to know the opponent, while they know everything about you already.

 

[Abakus]

Some hard, very hard weeks of training will welcome him back in Germany. I am pretty sure about it.
It would be a great disappointment, if he perform in the Olympics like this :/

 

[blahness]

I can't believe he lost to Jung Young Sik in his current form, no way..... I must see the video... I'm guessing that Jung adopted the following tactics:

1) Push long to Timo's BH, then hard counterloop his BH opening loops
2) Outblock Timo like Oh Sang Eun, controlling and using his topspin against him

Let's see whether I'm correct

 

[jmillsy2]

I think he read the competition thread and all the votes for him put too much pressure on him

Or he wasn't really familiar with Jung Young Sik because after all Jung is a youngster, and this often gives trouble to many players in their first encounter against young talented players. Like Ma long losing to Koki Niwa, Oh Sang Eun losing to young Zhang Jike and Liu Guoyan years ago, Boll losing to 16-yr old Ma Long, Ma Lin almost losing to Kenta Matsudaira in 2009 WTTC and so on. It just takes some time to get to know the opponent, while they know everything about you already.

This can't be true- they've played before, two years ago, and boll beat Jung 4-1
i think jung must have played incredibly, like lee sang su against ma long- i want a video of this though please!

 

[jmillsy2]

I think he read the competition thread and all the votes for him put too much pressure on him

Or he wasn't really familiar with Jung Young Sik because after all Jung is a youngster, and this often gives trouble to many players in their first encounter against young talented players. Like Ma long losing to Koki Niwa, Oh Sang Eun losing to young Zhang Jike and Liu Guoyan years ago, Boll losing to 16-yr old Ma Long, Ma Lin almost losing to Kenta Matsudaira in 2009 WTTC and so on. It just takes some time to get to know the opponent, while they know everything about you already.

This can't be true- they've played before, two years ago, and boll beat Jung 4-1
i think jung must have played incredibly, like lee sang su against ma long- i want a video of this though please!

 

[Der_Echte]

Wow, Jeong Young Sik is from the city I live in, Uijeongbu. I see his father all the time at local tourneys and I shall have to ask him whay happened. his father learns so many serves from his son it is silly. Jeoung Young Sik has always had the knock on him that he is not powerful enough, so his position in Korea national team slipped to where he was not getting selected so much, also his world ranking slipped from WR 60ish to under WR 100. this win and hopefully more wins should help him advance on the WR chart.

Maybe some leading competitor for the title put something in Timo's water. maybe someone had a long date with Timo and took away his strength. You cannot under-estimate japan women strength. haha. Who knows, maybe JYS had "it" that match. he always shows flashes of good form, then has bad results. This should help his momentum for sure.

 

[Bollforte94]

We can discuss this in the Japan Open thread. We don't need an extra thread for this discussion. Same goes for "OMG Ma Long lost to Koki Niwa" and "Oh NO MA LONG LOST AGAIN" and "Koki lost to Ma Long, what a surprise!"

 

[azlan]

Timo is fit physically, but he's not match fit. He was out for so long, and only entered very few tournaments this year.

 

[Thomash]

Any videos?

 

[Milad Loves Timo Boll]

I cant belive it...we have just 50 day to london olympic games.ohhh...

 

[DialecticBrown]

Timo is fit physically, but he's not match fit. He was out for so long, and only entered very few tournaments this year.

That would made me think that he's been preparing and training hard and everything... but I guess not?

 

[azlan]

That would made me think that he's been preparing and training hard and everything... but I guess not?

I have no doubt in my mind that he's been training very hard, but he hasn't had enough matches to perform at the optimum level

 

[edwinga]

Smart assessment: ".... It just takes some time to get to know the opponent, while they know everything about you already."
That is, between the well-known versus the little known young upstarts, plus the latter being able to play "with nothing to lose."

 

[Scorpnox]

Maybe he just had a bad day ... Happens to all of us