Amounts to exactly nothing if Shinozuka loses.
Guys, table tennis is a sport where the opponent is allowed to play good shots too. You can crticize specific decisions or plays or reversion to passivity but not all losses are choking. You have to credit the opponent when the opponent is taking risk as well. And all of Harimoto's opponents took risks.
Je moet "bijna verticaal" gooien. Wat betekent "bijna verticaal"? Dat betekent dat de werphoek kleiner moet zijn dan 30 graden (gebaseerd op ITTF-regelgeving over het TTR-systeem).
Considering the string of bad losses, at least he didn’t lose the match that would’ve given France the complete victory.
What has Shinozuka done that gives you the confidence he is capable of the required level? Kallberf and Felix are two of the best players in the world, no matter what you think of Harimoto.
I was also at the exebition centre that year. It was my first world championship I attended then.Actually the service law requires the toss to be "near vertically upward" All the players do that but it does drift over at the peak of the toss ending up falling a couple of feet away, but to me what they do seems to comply with "near vertically" and is at least 16 cm. In the bad old days some players would have the ball travelling almost horizontally onto the bat. At Birmingham 77 I was behind the table when a famous Hungarian did a tomahawk serve and missed it and the ball came all the way back to the barrier where I was sitting.
However if the ball in the palm is above the table at the start of the toss that is illegal.
IMHO the law is badly written
Ah
I see backspacer is before me and phrases it better
Leftie, last match pressure. Felix is better player but table tennis is weird sport.
Back in the day,(198?), I was watching a final, and my friend lost the first game unexpectedly and badly..At change of ends somebody approached and had a word or two. My friend went back to the table and demolished her opponent with ease.
