Marcos Freitas - Off the Table

[TableTennisDaily]

The Off the Table Series is back, and this time with no other than 2014 European Team Champion Marcos Freitas!

 

[TableTennisNerd]

pretty cool, but i cant stand freitas after watching him cheat against timo boll

 

[Amayzde]

pretty cool, but i cant stand freitas after watching him cheat against timo boll

Yh me neither

 

[Sali]

Cheating? With what ?

 

[rwatkins134]

I hadn't herd of that what did he do ?

 

[anchorschmidt]

Me neither. Here's the full story http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?9293-Marcos-Freitas-Poor-sportsmanship

The real question is, where on earth is Ma Long's off the table. They filmed it back in October according to Ma Long's facebook profile

 

[Sali]

Funny, but not true. After he was breathing the ball he was wipeing it of the trousers. In my opion he was trying to clean the ball.
Hiding serves is common thing - 90% of players do it.

 

[anchorschmidt]

Funny, but not true. After he was breathing the ball he was wipeing it of the trousers. In my opion he was trying to clean the ball.
Hiding serves is common thing - 90% of players do it.

@Hiding serves: It doesn't matter how many people do it as long as it's against the rules and unfair. All of the chinese players and Timo Boll clearly do not hide their serves. Doing it at such a crucial time was a dick move IMHO.

@wetting the ball: Seems kind of convenient that he was breaking the play when Boll moved from 7-8 to 8-8 as well as drying his hands, which you are explicitly not allowed to do until after every 6 points. To me it was a deliberate attempt at breaking the opponent's concentration

 

[Sali]

So in that case xu xin should not be chinese player.
taking time of course is not fair, but the master of this rule is ovtcharov who always take much time to disturb his opponent.
summarizing freitas is not my favourite player, but this cases concern most of players.

 

[anchorschmidt]

So in that case xu xin should not be chinese player.
taking time of course is not fair, but the master of this rule is ovtcharov who always take much time to disturb his opponent.
summarizing freitas is not my favourite player, but this cases concern most of players.

I find Ovtcharov quite unlikeable as well, especially for his ridiculous grunting and over-the-top celebrations after winning every minuscule point.

Point conceded on Xu Xin but Ma Long, Zhang Jike, Fan Zhendong, Timo Boll, Vladimir Samsonov, Jun Mizutani, Ovtcharov, Mengel, Kenta Matsudaira, Joo Sey Hyuk, Achanta Sharath don't hide their serves. I am not familiar with the other players ranked above or around Freitas. The majority of the elite chunk of players do not hide their serves and Freitas has no excuse to hide his serves.

 

[Sali]

Recenlty ovtcharov was punished by judges many times after hiding his serve. Anyway I think judges do not take care much about serve errors.