Hey guys how are you all?
I had quiet a lot going on recently not only in tt life.
Well but as i don't want to bore you with m work stories I am going to talk about the tt stuff.
Last Sunday I played at the MTTV tournament which is the biggest tournament in the area. I got up at ****ing 7 AM to get there. And i have to say for me table tennis is not a morning sport. So i played the E-Tournament. its the lowest rated tournament you can enter in switzerland. The ratings go from zero to about 1600 ish.
I actually was the second seed and got a walkover in the first round. Which led to me being cold in the second round.
I then played against an older gent in the second round and lost 0:3.. i played terribly. I actually recorded that match. But i don't want to show it. My first loss against a lower ranked player this season. I was pretty down at that point. Even more as he lost in the next round to a very weak player. That weak player actually got to the finals, beating another friend of mine who should have won easily.
The second series would start at 1:30 PM... so i had enough time to watch some of the A series matches and having some fun matches myself. It actually put me in a better mood.
Then the second series started. Its the D series Players rated zero to 1800ish can compete there. In my first match i played against a lower rated junior who i put with cowardly plays of mine. Only pushes and service points.
MY second opponent was a much higher rated player who looped really hard. It was so much fun to play him. I went up in the first game to lose the next three very closely contested. I was very happy with my performance in that match as i used my backhand to open up. And he blocked them long lots of times. Also i got in some really cool counter topspins.
You guess it, i did not record that match ...
shit
That's it from the tournament.
Next tt event was today. I played league matches in the 4. division.
The opponents were all ranked lower but had tricky play styles. I was interested how i would perform against them, as i played them 10 months ago.
Once again i played terrible. No topspins with whip action. it felt like i was pushing the ball over the net in my topspin strokes. It felt like i was using only my shoulder to hit... what an ugly feeling. Good choice i did not record it
I won all matches with 3:0, 3;0 and 3;1 .. still i felt really bad after the matches as i won playing very bad
One little thing i was kinda content with was how i handled the well placed pushes of one of them. He pushed into everything , even my short topspin serves... hmm maybe i should have tried long topspin serves...
His specialty was pushing very wide, he set up a push into the backhand to then push it very wide into the forehand. If managed to do a crossover step and hit it he would block it into my backhand.
Ten months before i had grave problems against this tactics. This time i managed to get in at least a little body rotation into the stroke which made him stop playing this tactics.
Oh and yesterday i almost broke my bat, as a bystander walked into me doing topspins drills... as a consequence my nittakkus h3 topsheet started to peel off -.- also the blade has a big nick now.
He was like ohhhh and shook my hand as he proceeded to just walk away. With my standing there all dazzled. I was quiet pissed off -.-
