Australian players in German leagues.

[Tony's Table Tennis]

You think this grip won't prevent from him to improve and become world level player?

He is still an attacking player.
How close to world level, I’m not sure - even normal grips with olympic status doesn't mean world level.
But age to age with Taiwanese, there is something there.

I guess he would need to move to Taiwan for good and train full time (his dad is from Tainan, and they train at the center where Kuo Guan-Hong resides).
They will also need to raise a lot of money, since NZL TT international trips are all self funded.

So to world level, there is more than a grip to consider. But if he can over come those, and out rank Taiwanese players, he is in the right step.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Taking USATT level into perspective
I think Hu was a 2400~2500 in his peak (does match correctly with German 5th division club level player).

Aditya Sareen, spends a lot of time in the USA, and he is around 2600 (even though his stats is 2700).
his most recent tournament, he lost to 2573 Edward Ly

Kayama Yu is around 2800, beating Kou Lei but loosing to Ma Jinbao few months ago.
Kayama Yu also beaten 2800 Kim Taehyun.
He actually lost to Ma twice, both 2-4, both very close.

I filmed some of his training on Thursday against a 2600. You could quite easily see the difference in level should he wish to up the gear.

So, these olympians with 2400~2500 is not enough today. I remember Team USA players used to be 2500~2600 at one stage.
even Aditya at 2600~2700 is not enough today.
Of course USA does not have enough higher level players to make the 2700+ USATT levels calculations accurate in my opinion, but if you cannot challenge a 2800 player, it will be impossible to be in 2nd division in Germany

Never the less, these young Aussies, looking forward to them challenging 2800 sooner than later.

 

[piligrim]

He's from New Zealand, which is Australia's neighbour and very similar culturally (similar to USA to Canada I guess... I hope I'm not offending anyone with this lol)

I thought New Zealand its just Australia's state ))

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

I thought New Zealand its just Australia's state ))

for the sake of table tennis
I am sure many NZ olympian to be but not to be, would have wished for that

 

[JackJohnson]

I thought New Zealand its just Australia's state ))

A long time ago was part of Australia NSW state.

 

[JackJohnson]

for the sake of table tennis
I am sure many NZ olympian to be but not to be, would have wished for that

The only country in the world who denies qualified players to participate at the Olympics. No other country does this. No matter if they are rank 50 or 100.

They need to get rid of only allowing the Top 16 to compete because it’s killing the sport and the players end up quitting the sport cause they can’t compete at the Olympics. Instead of viewing this an expense why don’t they considered it as a future investment in the sport for that country. The more players who play that sport the better.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

The only country in the world who denies qualified players to participate at the Olympics. No other country does this. No matter if they are rank 50 or 100.

They need to get rid of only allowing the Top 16 to compete because it’s killing the sport and the players end up quitting the sport cause they can’t compete at the Olympics. Instead of viewing this an expense why don’t they considered it as a future investment in the sport for that country. The more players who play that sport the better.

i think there was a time where they all could go,
but then, something like 100 players going and coming back with a handful of medals - the ratio was terribly low.
so it became very ugly

so they then change it to medal contenders, by using "top 16" in the world.

Its crazy.

But for TT, NZ will never get to top 16, especially with zero funding during the youth level.

 

[JackJohnson]

i think there was a time where they all could go,
but then, something like 100 players going and coming back with a handful of medals - the ratio was terribly low.
so it became very ugly

so they then change it to medal contenders, by using "top 16" in the world.

Its crazy.

But for TT, NZ will never get to top 16, especially with zero funding during the youth level.

I think it was changed after the 2000 Olympics. The only current player from NZ to have competed at the Olympics is Chunli Li and she will be competing in the 2025 World Cup with a few other NZ players competing as well.