European Games - Baku 2015

[SpinQuark]

Go Daddy Drinkhall

 

[karibaci]

pity, Drinkhall didn't make it...

if somebody isn't able to watch the stream, the second semifinals game, Samsonov vs Lei (because "the uploader didn't make the video available in your country"), you can watch it here

 

[karibaci]

man, these European games suck... they stopped the TT transmission in order to "focus on taekwondo".

I mean, what?

 

[fanTT]

Well i still see the live stream over youtube.
And I am happy that samsonov gonna win over that chineese

 

[TTLondon2012]

Dimitrij Ovtcharov vs Paul Drinkhall ---> Highlights here https://www.facebook.com/TtLondon2012/videos/vb.221501857985617/643359889133143/?type=2&theater

 

[Liten]

Isnt the actor Alexander Chaplin, who played "James" on spin city really the "happy-looking" brother of Dimitrij Ovtcharov??

I think im on to something!

[emoji6]

 

[elrigo99]

Says the video isn't available in my country... Is there any way to solve it?

 

[Michal_Z]

Well I had no trouble trough all semis..
Cant wait to the final matches!
Dima vs Vladi final will be awesome!
Two team mates facing each other, that sounds promising

 

[Michal_Z]

Anyways, schedule for the final matches:
Bronze Women match: 13:30 Eva Odorová SVK! vs. Hu Melek TUR
Gold Women match: 14:30 Li Jie vs. Li Jiao both NED
Bronze Men match: 16:00 Paul Drinkhall ENG vs. Kou Lei UKR
Gold Women match: 17:00 Dimitrij Ovtcharov GER vs. Vladimir Samsonov BLR

Yeah!

 

[Michal_Z]

I have to say that I hate the fact, that in semifinals of women matches are 3 asian players, that really sucks..
Better in the men semis, where only one is a former asian player..

 

[Progton]

its sad but at the other hand several good chinese players cant play for their own country so i can understand, most of them wants to play for an other country. And i can say i have met Li Jiao she is a real integrated dutch now. She is married here etc. And she plays for the Netherlands i think about 11 years now .
At the other hand li jie lives for most parts in China, less Dutch

 

[karibaci]

I have to say that I hate the fact, that in semifinals of women matches are 3 asian players, that really sucks..
Better in the men semis, where only one is a former asian player..

that's right, the more we are happy about Eva, aren't we? Private message Raz na treningu som proti nej hral, maly chlapec som bol, trener jej to dal za trest

 

[Michal_Z]

its sad but at the other hand several good chinese players cant play for their own country so i can understand, most of them wants to play for an other country. And i can say i have met Li Jiao she is a real integrated dutch now. She is married here etc. And she plays for the Netherlands i think about 11 years now .
At the other hand li jie lives for most parts in China, less Dutch

But if you take whole europe, the top women players..
Shan Xiaona, Han Ying, Li Jiao, Li Jie, Shen Yanfei, Hu Melek, Jiaduo Wu, Li Xue, Yu Fu, Ni Xia Lian, Li Qian, Liu Jia, Tian Yuan..
I mean - any of those names sound european?
WTF!

 

[brabhamista]

Who's the American/Canadian commentator? He's truly rubbish, IMHO.

Commentary on Li Jiao vs Li Jie:
"You can see the players play a defensive style similar to each other. It's not strange because they play for the same team and have the same coach."

Sigh... That comment alone is wrong in so many ways.

Please, EOC, at least get someone with basic knowledge about TT to do the commentaries. This is just embarrassing and hardly helpful for TT as a sport nor for the spectators.

 

[Progton]

indeed serious bullshit he is talking about hahaha

 

[fanTT]

that naturalization is a cancer for all sports. It should be banned. I can understand when lets say player get married and live in another country. Not much to do for her. But when player just get the nationality without big reason that is really bad.
When I watch EUROPEAN games, championships I want to see what is the level of true europeans players. I see enough playing asians in word cups and so on.... It is not our fault that there is big competition in china for example...
If we will allow such thing whole asian palyers will take all europeans spots in all major competitions. I don't want to see that.

Today commentator said that for example KOU Lei i think become ukraine citizen in 2007. According wikipeadia he borned in 1987 in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Simple calculations and you can see that he probably lived and played 20 years in China. So that su*ks..

 

[karibaci]

the guy really has no idea whatsoever

 

[NextLevel]

Its not banned in the Olympics but it's banned for major ITTF events (World Cup, WTTC and WTTTC). IMO, every country has its immigration policy. No one should complain if their country is doing what it needs to to keep the sport alive. Many of those players are raising the level of TT in Europe.

 

[NextLevel]

Can't this commentator remember when someone has already used his timeout?

 

[fanTT]

Can't this commentator remember when someone has already used his timeout?

Agree. Today from him atleast two times when he says that even players don't have any timeouts left
I think he thinks that players have timeout each game - because he have said it once


Well played by Drinkhall. left-hand, dive, WOW