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We've all encountered these situations as some point right?
1) You play a young child prodigy and he annihilated you! We have all been there, playing in a tournament with your mates, perhaps even in front of your girlfriend. You then came up against a young whippersnapper, you lost the first set, your hands start trembling, your heart races and the next thing you know, your match point down. The kid at the other end of the table is screaming his heart out choing for the cause, his mum is even screaming his name on the sideline, and then bang you've lost.
2) You lost to that awkward, dodgy player in the local league with long pimples who just stands at the table and doesn't even need to move and still runs you ragged putting the ball wherever he wants and no matter what you do you still have no answers.
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3) You lost to a player and they come over to you and told you how they beat you! As if losing wasn't hard enough they now tell you everything from your weaknesses and tries to give you pointers like they are some pro. Deep down your thinking ‘leave me alone I just played badly’.
4) You're waiting around for your regular practise partner to turn up, and out of nowhere someone asks you for a knock.
5) It's happened again! You've drawn that bogey player in the tournament ranked way below you and you know you should easily beat. He loses to all the players you beat and really is no where near your level. You start to play him, you win the first two sets and think this is it you've finally got him. You go match point up in the third but for some weird reason you can't get that last point and he narrowly takes the set way after Duce around 18-16. You don't want to believe it's happening again but deep down you know it is and whatever you are going to do it won't be enough. Before you know it you're 5-1 down in the fifth and fighting fate. He defeats you off the table, he's now your bogey player for life.
6) When one of your mates brings up Forrest Gump and says table tennis isn't a real sport.
7) When someone tries to convince you that famous Bruce Lee clip is real.
8) When someone much better then you completely destroys you and doesn't even have to make an effort. You've been training hard for 5/10 years+ but you come up against someone who is just too good and makes you feel like a complete beginner who only picked up a bat for the first time yesterday. You try your best serve that catches everyone in the league out but this guys just dismisses it by flicking straight past you and you come to the sudden realisation that you just gave it your all but no matter whatever you're going to do it just won't work. You might as well just walk round the other side of the table and shake his hand. You are just not on this guys level.
9) Someone who over celebrates each point and there's just no need.
10) When someone way under your level thinks they can beat you and gets really annoyed when they lose and start making excuses like "the floor is too slippy". Actually my friend we are both using the same floor the simple fact is I'm just much better than you. Of course you don't say this..
So we are all table tennis players here. I am pretty sure you have atleast been in 2 of these situations before. Write in the post below which situations you have been in and any other really annoying ones we have missed out
Written by: TTD content writer Tom Jeffcott
1) You play a young child prodigy and he annihilated you! We have all been there, playing in a tournament with your mates, perhaps even in front of your girlfriend. You then came up against a young whippersnapper, you lost the first set, your hands start trembling, your heart races and the next thing you know, your match point down. The kid at the other end of the table is screaming his heart out choing for the cause, his mum is even screaming his name on the sideline, and then bang you've lost.
2) You lost to that awkward, dodgy player in the local league with long pimples who just stands at the table and doesn't even need to move and still runs you ragged putting the ball wherever he wants and no matter what you do you still have no answers.
Photo by: ettcblog
3) You lost to a player and they come over to you and told you how they beat you! As if losing wasn't hard enough they now tell you everything from your weaknesses and tries to give you pointers like they are some pro. Deep down your thinking ‘leave me alone I just played badly’.
4) You're waiting around for your regular practise partner to turn up, and out of nowhere someone asks you for a knock.
5) It's happened again! You've drawn that bogey player in the tournament ranked way below you and you know you should easily beat. He loses to all the players you beat and really is no where near your level. You start to play him, you win the first two sets and think this is it you've finally got him. You go match point up in the third but for some weird reason you can't get that last point and he narrowly takes the set way after Duce around 18-16. You don't want to believe it's happening again but deep down you know it is and whatever you are going to do it won't be enough. Before you know it you're 5-1 down in the fifth and fighting fate. He defeats you off the table, he's now your bogey player for life.
6) When one of your mates brings up Forrest Gump and says table tennis isn't a real sport.
7) When someone tries to convince you that famous Bruce Lee clip is real.
8) When someone much better then you completely destroys you and doesn't even have to make an effort. You've been training hard for 5/10 years+ but you come up against someone who is just too good and makes you feel like a complete beginner who only picked up a bat for the first time yesterday. You try your best serve that catches everyone in the league out but this guys just dismisses it by flicking straight past you and you come to the sudden realisation that you just gave it your all but no matter whatever you're going to do it just won't work. You might as well just walk round the other side of the table and shake his hand. You are just not on this guys level.
9) Someone who over celebrates each point and there's just no need.
10) When someone way under your level thinks they can beat you and gets really annoyed when they lose and start making excuses like "the floor is too slippy". Actually my friend we are both using the same floor the simple fact is I'm just much better than you. Of course you don't say this..
So we are all table tennis players here. I am pretty sure you have atleast been in 2 of these situations before. Write in the post below which situations you have been in and any other really annoying ones we have missed out
Written by: TTD content writer Tom Jeffcott
