Match of the year 2011

What is the best match of the year 2011?? (more votes allowed)

  • [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEZj75hC6SI]Chen Qi vs. Vladimir Samsonov (WTTC) [/url]

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Hello everyone!
I just think this would be a nice topic to be 1500th topic of this forum :)
After a year full of amazing table tennis matches we can make some statistics.. :)
I think noone would doubt about the best player of the year, which is Ma Long despite he didnt win WTTC and also World Cup, but he is just the best!
But!
There are other things we can pick..
I would like to make this a poll, but first I want to get 10 matches to choose from, so, now its up to you!
What is the best match of the year 2011?
 
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The second half of 2011 was totally Ma Long's. I think Boll-Joo at the World Cup deserves a nomination though. But there are a number of matches that have been so epic, like: Ryu Seung Min - Yoshida Kaii (World Team Cup); Ma Long - Bojan Tokic , Ryu Seung Min - Wang Hao, Chen Qi - Vladimir Samsonov (WTTC) and maybe more :) But Zhang-Ma at the Austrian Open is indeed a match of a level we have rarely seen before.
 
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Yeah, i witnessed the ma long bojan and vladi v chen qi, both brilliant games with both chinese on the ropes but eventually finding a way to win....,koki niwa v ma lin second round was awesome for 3 ends with ma on the ropes but again finding a way to win,personally I like to watch the japanese players, open games big long open rallies,, rallies, they may fall to the chinese but are excellent watch..
 
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Ma Long-Tokic (WTTC)
Samsonov-Chen Qi (WTTC)
Boll-Zhang Jike (WTTC)
Zhang Jike-Ma Long (Austrian Open)
Tokic-Ovtcharov (ETTC)
Boll-Joo Se Hyuk (WC)
Those are my favourites I think.
Oh yeah and those Group D matches at the WC were awesome as well, but they weren't really the best.
 
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Yeah, i witnessed the ma long bojan and vladi v chen qi, both brilliant games with both chinese on the ropes but eventually finding a way to win....,koki niwa v ma lin second round was awesome for 3 ends with ma on the ropes but again finding a way to win,personally I like to watch the japanese players, open games big long open rallies,, rallies, they may fall to the chinese but are excellent watch..

I was watching live on ma long and bojan. At one moment I was though Ma Long may getting knockout by him
 
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austrian open: Zhang Jike - Ma Long
 
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every Zhang Jike vs Ma Long game was amazing this year!! But the Austrian Open really got jumpin on my feet! haha! :D

Zhang Jike and Jun Mizutani's game (WTTC 2011) where Zhang Jike came back after 0-3 .. maybe it can be categorized in The Greatest Comeback in a Game 2011 haha
 
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every Zhang Jike vs Ma Long game was amazing this year!! But the Austrian Open really got jumpin on my feet! haha! :D

Zhang Jike and Jun Mizutani's game (WTTC 2011) where Zhang Jike came back after 0-3 .. maybe it can be categorized in The Greatest Comeback in a Game 2011 haha

It was 2010 as said before xD This year he did it against Ovcharov from 3-1 down.
 
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The second half of 2011 was totally Ma Long's. I think Boll-Joo at the World Cup deserves a nomination though. But there are a number of matches that have been so epic, like: Ryu Seung Min - Yoshida Kaii (World Team Cup); Ma Long - Bojan Tokic , Ryu Seung Min - Wang Hao, Chen Qi - Vladimir Samsonov (WTTC) and maybe more :) But Zhang-Ma at the Austrian Open is indeed a match of a level we have rarely seen before.

I agree. This is a great post.
 

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I'm going to have to go for the recent Ma Long vs Zhang Jike battle. It may of not had the best rallies however there was a lot on this game for Ma Long. At a major, to prove why he should go to London 2012 Olympics and no where else better to do it then at the test event for the games. Chinas selected players currently to represent China in the London 2012 games is Wang Hao and Zhang Jike. Ma Long defeated both of them! I was their live, I saw how much it meant to him!


In terms of best rallies I would have to go for the Austrian Open final.

However my vote is the video above
 
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