China National team did suffer badly over high air humidity.

[Tony's Table Tennis]

The Fortuna match shouldnt have happened like this and wasnt planned this was as you can see from the letters next to the time of the match. They changed homeground and date of the other match. Which is unforturnate but happens.

Funfact for the Düsseldorf matches: Grenzau plays with the same setups so it is not too bad in that case.

Btw i just found one of the the clips i mentioned in which Boll explains the struggle of getting used to other setups and that 2 hrs of warmup are not nearly enough for getting used to the differences.

SPONTENT - Timo über andere Bälle

Watch SPONTENT's clip titled "Timo über andere Bälle"

www.twitch.tv

Sadly enough it is in german. But it is short enough to give a more detailed translation if anyone wants.

Aside from that there is no need to talk about single matches in the bundesliga in itself. If you wanted to prove that Bolls statement is wrong you would have to check all his matches, and even then you would find situations as in the interview in which he still play although he didnt have enough time to prepare.

And that is actually my whole point. Playing on a different setup than you are used to, simply gives you a disadvantage if other are more prepared or have this setup as their homeground. Now we could argue what preparationtime would be enough.
On that note, do you know when the CNT and Taipei arrived compared to the other regions?

I have a friend who is playing third year in 1 bundesliga women
few day apart and different balls happens all the time according to her and she was the one telling me it is a good thing and one of the challenges for her.
I have seen plenty of clubs schedules the past 2 weeks as I have a 2 x 1 bundesliga player I need to find a home for.

whether schedule change or what not, the players must adapt with very little time and that is a fact and has been going on for years. No pro will tell you there is no challenge for it, it is not that easy. but when you don't have a choice, you don't have a choice.

At least there is no time zone issue this time round (2 hours isn't much)

and humidity isn't a problem in the hall.
by the time individuals came, all players had plenty of hits with the ball/table, so that is out of the equation

so it seems more like fatigue issue than anything else.
and no, I didn't ask when they left Beijing for Astana
but TPE team I saw yesterday was exhausted still