Benyamin Faraji 14 years old.

[NextLevel]

Felix’s first great run imo is Star Contender Goa 2023 (qualifying rounds all the way to semis, beat LSS, Truls, JWJ). That would make him a young and sprightly 17 year old, which is just a year older than Beyamin is right now. And I mentioned Alexis was the only one not making good runs that early, more where he made his first real good run at 18-19.

A year is a lot of time. And Benjamin was born in December so make of that what you will, he turns 16 in December while Felix was 17 and a half at the time he won Goa a year later, though you are right, he was 16 and a half with the big run. But Felix was a super prodigy so I don't expect anything that big from Benjamin. But with many of these players, a lot comes down to small things here and there. That said, there are worse things than losing to Cho Daesong or even fellow juniors. People should just not skip the inconvenient details and I am not a fan of writing off junior talent moreso when people can make massive gains as hard working adults.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Benyamin isnt going on insane senior level tournament runs like Tomo, Felix, and Alexis as examples. Besides maybe the latter, the former two started regularly taking town Top 100 and even Top 50 players in their mid teens, and ofc we know what Tomo did when he was 14. But Benyamin, besides his good results against a mentally messed up WCQ and a LSD who had been going to back to back to back to back WTT tournaments prior, hasn’t had any insane runs on the WTT senior stage. And if he loses rather easily to WR65 Cho Daeseong in the first round of qualifying for Europe smash, I fear he may be just a Top 50 prodigy at best, not a Felix or Tomo level prodigy.

this kid does have some feeders, i think 3 x WTT events (1 contender and 2 feeders) prior to the Smash, and not counting continentals.

and I agree, you can't compare him to any one on that list. Other than CNT players falling like dominos (and it wasn't only to Faraji), he doesn't really have any other big wins

Its only next level that can go on and on when I accidentally list a weaker 1 year older kid that beat him, but he doesn't talk about the weaker 13 year old french kid that beat him too.

If you are a prodigy, at 15 (or 16 basically this year), he should be challenging 17 and 18 even 19 years old with no problem. If you need to be 15 vs 15, then the kid is not special.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

A year is a lot of time. And Benjamin was born in December so make of that what you will, he turns 16 in December while Felix was 17 and a half at the time he won Goa a year later, though you are right, he was 16 and a half with the big run. But Felix was a super prodigy so I don't expect anything that big from Benjamin. But with many of these players, a lot comes down to small things here and there. That said, there are worse things than losing to Cho Daesong or even fellow juniors. People should just not skip the inconvenient details and I am not a fan of writing off junior talent moreso when people can make massive gains as hard working adults.

Felix if i recall, at the year of 16 years old, he focused on seniors.
LYJ was 17 year old if I recall
Harimoto and the other half dozen Japanese girls are just from different planets.

these are the ages I would expect any prodigy to shift over to 100% seniors.
continuing playing in juniors really serve no purpose, other than having a high junior world ranking for funding purposes.
but clearly this kid cannot beat many of the juniors, even if they are 1 year older (despite weaker player) as you been focusing on.

So he still has a lot to prove and that is why I quoted all his junior losses. As I feel he shouldn't be comparing with juniors any more or soon, but I've been entertaining your lower standards for the past few posts, since you think his ability is only that of the same age or under his age only.

But don't get me wrong, coming from a non TT top country and achieving such feat - is extremely impressive.
Let's see how he will feature in Germany

 

[NextLevel]

this kid does have some feeders, i think 3 x WTT events (1 contender and 2 feeders) prior to the Smash, and not counting continentals.

and I agree, you can't compare him to any one on that list. Other than CNT players falling like dominos (and it wasn't only to Faraji), he doesn't really have any other big wins

Its only next level that can go on and on when I accidentally list a weaker 1 year older kid that beat him, but he doesn't talk about the weaker 13 year old french kid that beat him too.

If you are a prodigy, at 15 (or 16 basically this year), he should be challenging 17 and 18 even 19 years old with no problem. If you need to be 15 vs 15, then the kid is not special.

OK, he is not special to you given the group you are comparing him to. Let's see how his career shakes out.

 

[NextLevel]

Felix if i recall, at the year of 16 years old, he focused on seniors.
LYJ was 17 year old if I recall
Harimoto and the other half dozen Japanese girls are just from different planets.

these are the ages I would expect any prodigy to shift over to 100% seniors.
continuing playing in juniors really serve no purpose, other than having a high junior world ranking for funding purposes.
but clearly this kid cannot beat many of the juniors, even if they are 1 year older (despite weaker player) as you been focusing on.

So he still has a lot to prove and that is why I quoted all his junior losses. As I feel he shouldn't be comparing with juniors any more or soon, but I've been entertaining your lower standards for the past few posts, since you think his ability is only that of the same age or under his age only.

But don't get me wrong, coming from a non TT top country and achieving such feat - is extremely impressive.
Let's see how he will feature in Germany

Quite a few of the players he has losses against, he has beaten in other contexts. Let's see how it plays out, I am not a fan of writing off youth, it's something Asians seem much more comfortable doing.

As an example of what context means, in the event he lost to Noah Tessier in the prelims, he won the whole event. So in the end, everyone just looks at what they want to look at when they look at these matches.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

As an example of what context means, in the event he lost to Noah Tessier in the prelims, he won the whole event. So in the end, everyone just looks at what they want to look at when they look at these matches.

a loosing record is a loosing record,
or are you suggesting he took it easy in the prelims? maybe it is true, but it will remain a stat for ever.
i am not comparing how many titles or positions he got (now that you are raising something else), but rather, who has beaten him and the list was long and it was you that was suggesting about ages.

as I said, if he is "so great", then you should not hide the +1, +2, +3 in terms of opponent ages, not to mention, some that are older than him are not better than him.

I think he is great, but same time, inconsistent and i don't understand why you need to find excuses for him when he looses. Maybe he becomes better over time, or maybe the win-loss ratio remains the same. Until then, his youth results are ok, but he does have first place for probably being the first player to play 30+ events a year.

 

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Maybe he should go to Taiwan or China for training

 

[NextLevel]

Maybe he should go to Taiwan or China for training

Yeah. Thats the usual conclusion of any discussion about the technique of a non-Asian player.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Maybe he should go to Taiwan or China for training

i'm actually not too sure where he trains before, but he is playing German league the coming season, for SV Union Velbert in the 3BL, and he will be training in Dusseldorf

 

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[Tony's Table Tennis]

I was hoping there was live stream for his previous 2 matches, because it featured two of my players.

sadly, both had no streaming and this youtuber only posted that match and not against the other player.

His debut in 2BL has 2 wins and 2 losses, both losses again my players.

 

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I was hoping there was live stream for his previous 2 matches, because it featured two of my players.

sadly, both had no streaming and this youtuber only posted that match and not against the other player.

His debut in 2BL has 2 wins and 2 losses, both losses again my players.

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There was a livestream for Hohenstein-Ernstthal vs Velbert, but only one table. Looks like that person just cut the match from it.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

There was a livestream for Hohenstein-Ernstthal vs Velbert, but only one table. Looks like that person just cut the match from it.

thank you
i see Kim B's match!

 

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thank you
i see Kim B's match!

Faraji didn't play well against Kim. They also spell his name wrong. Feraji instead Faraji

 

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thank you
i see Kim B's match!

And this is from Velbert vs Passau. Verdonschot vs Yang.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

This kid loves Asia championships

 

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This kid loves Asia championships

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He loves CNT