Europe Top 16 - 2017

[M51]

Who would have thought that it would be Gauzy and not Shibaev to lose his shit in this match...

I didn't like seeing that crap at all.

 

[Garrison]

Gauzy so salty

 

[Tom TTD]

Positions so far:

Stefan Fegerl 8th
Tiago Apolonia 7th
Andrej Gacina 6th
Timo Boll 5th

 

[TTLondon2012]

For sure i put it in the Highlights

 

[fanTT]

Actually you could even make a separate video for this like: "Biggest fight in TT modern history" D

 

[Irkutt]

What has happened between Gauzy and Shibaev has its negative background from the last ETTC in Budapest. They met in the round of 16. The match was very nervous. Alexander's serve was many times regarded as illegal what was also pointed out by Simon, points after points were taken off his serve and it all resulted in Shibaev's defeat. That's that match:

 

[TTLondon2012]

Remember This

 

[Garrison]

I just learned that the top 6 of this event go to the world cup, which explains why Apolonia was so frustrated vs Boll in the end.

 

[fanTT]

I just learned that the top 6 of this event go to the world cup, which explains why Apolonia was so frustrated vs Boll in the end.

What is your source?? 3 women and 3 men..
"First 3 players in both events will be qualified for 2017 ITTF World Cups with limit
of 2 players per association.
"

 

[Garrison]

What is your source?? 3 women and 3 men..
"First 3 players in both events will be qualified for 2017 ITTF World Cups with limit
of 2 players per association.
"

Someone told me that, maybe he meant 3 for men and 3 for women. But Timo Boll wrote on facebook that he reached his minimum goal of qualifying for the world cup.

 

[NextLevel]

The ITTF website has all the rules for each year. No need to argue.

 

[NextLevel]

I just learned that the top 6 of this event go to the world cup, which explains why Apolonia was so frustrated vs Boll in the end.

I think it is top 5 that go, but you may be right. Here is last year's document.

http://dd7978b90kfgn.cloudfront.net/2016/08/Qualification-Playing-System-WWCMWC-2016_FINAL.pdf

 

[NextLevel]

What is your source?? 3 women and 3 men..
"First 3 players in both events will be qualified for 2017 ITTF World Cups with limit
of 2 players per association.
"

Read the next line:
2.2 The winner of each Continental Cup, plus the second (2nd) and third (3rd) highestfinishers from Asia and Europe shall qualify, for a total of ten (10) players.
2.3 Seven (7) additional players shall be selected from the Continental Cups based ontheir order of finishing and their World Ranking

 

[fanTT]

Read the next line:
2.2 The winner of each Continental Cup, plus the second (2nd) and third (3rd) highestfinishers from Asia and Europe shall qualify, for a total of ten (10) players.
2.3 Seven (7) additional players shall be selected from the Continental Cups based ontheir order of finishing and their World Ranking

My source from ettu euro top16 prospectus http://www.ettu.org/?proxy=redaktion/Competitions/Top_16/2017ETTU_ITTF_EuropeTop16Cup_Prospectus.pdf

 

[sanavasaraja]

Summary: Shibaev didn't properly shake Gauzys hand, audience boo'd, Shibaev apologized, Gauzy ventured too deep into the saltmines after losing and went aggressive instead of just letting it go, Shibaev was like "well screw you then lol"

Also I find it hard to believe that Gauzy doesn't know the rules concerning that net ball. He was clearly looking at it after hitting the ball. In which case... that was a dick move of him. Or he was really that confused that he didn't properly see it... which is also hard to believe.

 

[TTLondon2012]

Simon Gauzy vs Alexander Shibaev (1/2 Final)

 

[TableTennisDaily]

Men's Singles Final NOW LIVE: Dimitrij Ovtcharov vs Alexander Shibaev: http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/livestream/mens-singles-final-len

 

[Jonathan_]

Gauzy probably overreacted, but Shibaev is a known a**hole. I remember a doubles match where the ball clearly touched his shirt in one of the deciding points and he didn't admit it. Shame I don't remember which match it was. One of the opponents might have been Jonathan Groth.

 

[Cornel]

A tense dialogue between Ovtcharov and Shibaev about the broken ball :
DO : You had hit the ball with the edge, that's why it broke.
AS : But you didn't show this to me.
Dima to the umpire : (not sure here) He's talking to me and I don't know why.

 

[Jonathan_]

Wow, there's a lot of bad blood right now.

Shibaev hit the ball with the edge of the racket after Dima's BH flick, Dima detected a crack and asked for a new ball.

During the 'warm up' with the new ball, in Russian:

Shibaev: "How did the ball break?"
Dima: "You hit an edge and it broke"
Shibaev: "You didn't even show me"
Dima, to the umpire in English: "He is talking to me, I don't know why". was clearly irritated with Shibaev.

Pretty demonstrative screaming after winning the next couple of points as well.