Nah, Eugene has always had a lazy looking style, it takes a high level player to bring out his best game. Even when he was younger, he looked a lot like this, though what younger means is relative.
Agreed, I stil ln remember Hao Shuai coming for NA Teams in 2013, and it was the first time I saw 2500 players unable to return serves as if they were 1600 players.
Canadian 1900 is not the same as US 1900, Canadian 1900 might be really 2000‐2100 USATT.
for most of Eugene's playing career, (which isn't this new inflated method), his rank is pretty much fair and not inflated. You should know this
Only a few exception, otherwise most would struggle like what you saw.
.I'm not talking about his "lazy style"
He is slower now, but he has always been a touch player relative to his level. Eugene has dominated NA for over a decade and a half, virtually all the time I have watched TT, you have to make him play physical to see his physical, he wants to junk you to death.
The Japanese guy did it in best of 5 and he couldn't beat Ma Jinbao, it would have been interesting in best of 7.Only a few exception, otherwise most would struggle like what you saw.
Barely in mind, many of these players who come to the US and everywhere else, are "drop outs" within the CNT or Chinese provincial system.
and now you have a Hao Shaui who was top 5 or 8 within the same system that the immigrant player failed.
2500 isn't that high, and 2600 also isn't that high and there sure isn't too many 2700, as evidence on how many can really beat Kou Lei.
I got a message few months ago, where a club was looking to "hire" (fly in) someone to beat Kou Lei.... well, Japanese did just that
Trying is a relative term. But I agree with you on some point. He missed a shot in the first game that he made in the third game, but he also took many aggressive shots that he didn't have to take and I am not entirely sure he would have taken those shots against a better player either with the same ball quality, but that is debatable. I just want to drive discussion.
Good point. My follow up shot after opening loop is not always consistent, and i dont know why.
Fang Bo should be around WR10 or so back in 2015 when Eugene beat him.
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Hi TB,
Wow, a win over Fang Bo is no joke. So he really is world class level in his prime.Fang Bo should be around WR10 or so back in 2015 when Eugene beat him.
I'm sure there is also wins over Gao Ning (another Top 20 player) - google search says in 2012Eugene Wang – The Best Present: A Win Against Fan Bo
Eugene Wang - The Best Present: A Win Against Fan Bo, 2015 World Championships Runner Up Courtesy of Table Tennis Canada November 13, 2015, Stockholm, SWE -
google search also seems to indicated there are also wins against Robles, Wang Yang,
ITTF has closed its stats section, so I can't really do a quick check there, but to stated that under the old ranking where a WR50 player doesn't have wins against WR100 players is really... "not knowing how the old system works".
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Because you don't watch (enough) table tennis. This guy was the best table tennis player in the Americas for a while, he used to either win or come second in the US Open almost every year even with all those German and Japanese people coming in. Old ITTF rules didn't let him play for Canada other than Olympics events and qualifiers, but even when Kanak was the top American, everyone knew he really had a debatable chance against Eugene - Eugene was the legit 2800+ player in NA for a long time, even the Jia A guys they brought directly from China almost never beat him, they just gave him a run for his money.
He used to play in French League as well, he is probably somewhere in Europe playing and training this year, anyone who acts like Eugene wasn't a top player who just couldn't play for Canada in the kinds of ITTF events that would have made him famous is not really serious, if he had been able to get full Canada status earlier, he might have had a higher world ranking. There was even a year that I think he almost won Panamerican games, Hugo barely beat him.
