Kashumi ishikawa cramp, no timeout allowed

[Persistence TT]

So in their FB page 8 hours ago ittf posted this

with the caption "The world learned today that in #TableTennis you can't have an injury time out when you have a cramp!"

Really? A player works his/her butt off for so many years to peak performance for 10 days in the most prestigious tournament and he/she is not allowed to have an injury timeout?

I am aware that some players maybe fake an "injury" to cool things down if the rule was different . But still it seems unfair to me regardless kishikawa losing /winning the game. LSW was certainly affected in the wttc final but in the end, the game was in her hands and she let it slip away more than ding ning actually won it

My point is that an injury fake or not is not decisive enough to win the game there are many factors. Of course im not talking about serious injuries that force you to stop, there is always sharath kamal achanta example who had much more serious injury than ding ning and still managed to beat simon gauzy in wttc

 

[Persistence TT]

sorry for the green letters guys, something went wrong with my copy paste there

 

[Musaab]

ML opponent yesterday had 10 minutes injury time ..

 

[Persistence TT]

ML opponent yesterday had 10 minutes injury time ..

fair enough but it wasnt a cramp obviously

 

[M51]

sorry for the green letters guys, something went wrong with my copy paste there

Always use the "paste as plain text" option from the context menu.

 

[Persistence TT]

Always use the "paste as plain text" option from the context menu.

thanks alot!

 

[allencorn]

I think a cramp is considered a conditioning issue and not an injury - at least that is what I recall from tennis. Years ago Michael Chang was playing Ivan Lendl in the French Open and he began to cramp and could not take an injury time out and had to serve underhand - he won the match.