Qatar Open 2013 - ITTF World Tour

[bzing]

Philipp Floritz vs Andrew Baggaley (Qual.Groups)

What is the equipment of Philipp Floritz, does anyone know? You can see in the video his shots are very side spinny and quite slow and usually lobs away from the table or when counterlooping the ball seems lacking power.

 

[TTLondon2012]

BH+FH Sinus Alpha

 

[pingpingpongpong]

Liam Pitchford defeats Kim Minseok.

 

[H4ks3lR]

Ma Long Vs Romain Lorentz

 

[TTLondon2012]

Tiago Apolonia vs Cheung Yuk (Round 1)

Wang Hao vs Lashin El-Sayed (Round 1)

 

[H4ks3lR]

[h=1]Wang Hao Vs El-Sayed Lashin[/h]

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

This is too bad, they should do it different, so we see different semifinals..
I think if this time Xu Xin got Wang Hao in the semi, and Ma Long got Zhang Jike, would be better

Not really. If you look at it from a realistic standpoint and look at the matchups between Ma Long and Wang Hao and Ma Long and Xu Xin, Ma Long usually beats both of them. Therefore he is the better player. If you look at the matchups between Zhang Jike and Xu Xin and Zhang Jike and Wang Hao, usually Zhang Jike wins. If Zhang Jike and Ma Long are the two best players, and Xu Xin and Wang Hao are both really a notch below those two, why should they be given an easier semifinal?

I know that, right now Xu Xin is ranked #1. If you really look at things though, he got ranked #1 because China kept Ma Long and Zhang Jike out of World Tour competitions after the Olympics, not because they lost. Xu Xin won when those two were not there.

Now if Xu Xin can beat Ma Long in a semifinal, and/or if Wang Hao can beat Zhang Jike in a semifinal, then, you would have to say they earned the right to play in the finals.

So, in a sense, the draw has things as they should be. At least, in my opinion.

 

[DexBG]

I see that the ITTF Ranking has changed - it was XX, ZJK, ML and now is XX, ML, ZJK. Strange reorder, ZJK won Kuwait open but ML passed him... Anyway, this means in the next world tour the semis will be XX vs ZJK and ML vs WH which doesn't chage the situation much...

 

[H4ks3lR]

round 1 :

[h=1]Zhang Jike Vs Asuka Sakaï[/h]

 

[UpSideDownCarl]

round 1 :

Zhang Jike Vs Asuka Sakaï

This kids serve's are crazy but Zhang Jike took care of him pretty easily.

 

[TTLondon2012]

Zhang Jike vs Asuka Sakai (Round 1)

 

[revulucao]

ML passed for the second place in the beginning of february. the "points of Kuwait open where not there" yet. so to march maybe we can have a different order again

 

[H4ks3lR]

[h=1]Round 1

Yuto Muramatsu Vs Eon Rae Cho[/h]

 

[TTLondon2012]

Xu Xin vs Li Hu (Round 2)

 

[TTLondon2012]

Tang Peng vs Jeong Sangeun (Round 2)

 

[Melapringa]

and Samsonov ?????

 

[TTLondon2012]

Zhang Jike vs Christophe Legout (Round 2)

 

[TTLondon2012]

Fan Zhendong is Out 0-4 vs Marcos Freitas

 

[huri]

Wow, Ma Long Gao Ning, Mattenet Chuang, Dima Skachkov, Yan An Marcoc Freitas a lot of good table tennis incoming !
I think Marcos will either not like chineese players after tomorow or booost his confidence greatly, last week he played fairly good against Ma Long, but this week 4 0 to FZD and if he could beat Yan An the next day, that would just have to feel awesome.

 

[Michal_Z]

and Samsonov ?????

Exactly, I just looked at it!
Where he is? He is in the final entries for the singles and he is not in the main draw..
What happened?