China Open 2013 - ITTF World Tour

[TableTennisDaily]

I can confirm Zhang Jike has been forced to withdraw due to a shoulder injury guys.

Zhang Jike - Photo by: ITTF Facebook Page

 

[pong4lyfe]

Hmm so it is actually an injury? Not psychological? I sure hope not

 

[Arlen]

lololol, double Yan An v. Fan Zhendong. And Fan already won one. Next one should be interesting....

And Zhang's injury is most probably genuine; he won the fourth and latest game before retiring.

 

[integration]

what's going on? so many injuries in this tournament lol

 

[Samuraisam 3467]

Doubles with adrien mattenet against ma long and timo boll wasn't all mattenets fault. It's obvious zhang wasn't playing at all, just pushing and lobbing

 

[pingpingpongpong]

What's up with Xu Xin's opponents?

 

[MDanielCRO]

lololol, double Yan An v. Fan Zhendong. And Fan already won one. Next one should be interesting....

And Zhang's injury is most probably genuine; he won the fourth and latest game before retiring.

I think Yan An has let the FZD to win U21 because he won 4:0 at main draw, maybe I am wrong but China is so unpredictable, lol

 

[rferdianto]

It seems in this tournament, Ma Long use Hurricane Long 2 blade instead of HL 3:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7375/9039628491_dbe6661e5d_o.jpg

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Tomorrow's matches should be interesting. I believe anything can happen in either semi-final.


Yan An really has a 50/50 chance against Ma Long. At this point they are so close in level. Ma Long's forehand is better and Yan An's backhand and short game are better. But they are so close, the result may hinge on whether Ma Long gets off to a fast start or not. When he gets off to a fast start, Ma Long is very hard to contain.


If Wang Hao can use the short game effectively against Xu Xin the way he used it at the WTTC against Yan An and Ma Long he will win. If not Xu Xin will win. So, which Wang Hao will we see in the semi-finals.


I cannot wait to see the matches.

 

[PlasmaLight]

About the injuries: Some of the players got bad food and are ill now. Franziska, Zhang, Smirnov etc.

 

[MDanielCRO]

About the injuries: Some of the players got bad food and are ill now. Franziska, Zhang, Smirnov etc.

omg hahaha that is so silly

 

[TurboZ]

It seems in this tournament, Ma Long use Hurricane Long 2 blade instead of HL 3:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7375/9039628491_dbe6661e5d_o.jpg

I also noticed he changed his blade again which did not match any market version of Hurricane Long. It got brown handle but no pic of his face on the bottom, no visible red plys so that resemble a HL-1 but with blade face colour of HL-2 or HL-3. Guess it is another new custom made blade for him. Is DHS about to release yet another HL-4?

 

[MDanielCRO]

I also noticed he changed his blade again which did not match any market version of Hurricane Long. It got brown handle but no pic of his face on the bottom, no visible red plys so that resemble a HL-1 but with blade face colour of HL-2 or HL-3. Guess it is another new custom made blade for him. Is DHS about to release yet another HL-4?

Haha DHS makes people buy the blade he is currently using and when they sell it enough they make another one. I think all his DHS blades are very simillar

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

Haha DHS makes people buy the blade he is currently using and when they sell it enough they make another one. I think all his DHS blades are very simillar

Or Ma Long keeps changing his blade when he loses a big match. ��

 

[TurboZ]

Without the 2 red plys may be this time the structure of Ma Long's new blade is indeed something new. Will see when we get more details.

Wow what a RPB vs RPB duel between WH and XX. After seeing WH beat Timo comfortably yesterday I think he really can claim the prize this time. Hope he can break the curse and do better than second place on his home soil.

 

[XuXin88]

Indeed a great battle between XX and WH!

 

[Arlen]

Wang Hao - Ma Long finals! Go Wang Hao!!

Any idea when the match will be played?

 

[HLDang]

Should be a little after the doubles.

 

[TurboZ]

Wang Hao - Ma Long finals! Go Wang Hao!!

Any idea when the match will be played?

17:15 China time so about 2.5 hours from now.

 

[Alborz]

Ma Long destroyed Wang Hao ! back to #1 in world .