Whose the best player you've ever played against?

[billalphonso79!]

panagiotis gionis when he was relatively unknown...he's a greek player defensive style...he has evolved his game since then and he's ranked 50 in the world i think

 

[Ferdy]

Back in the 80's I played an exibition match with Shawn O'Neal a U.S. champion. He needed lodging so he stayed with me and found him to be a great guy and exceptional athlete.

 

[Michellius]

I have played against Trinko Keen.

 

[Michellius]

and he gave me 1 of his shirts from Werder Bremen.

 

[jonyer80]

I´ve once played some doubles against Machado and V.Sanchez (a former 3times Spanish champion). It was an embarrasing situation, but fortunately they didn´t play at their best and made some unforced mistakes and allow us to have fun.

 

[josskuusk]

I have played with Carlo Accorsi from Italia.

 

[STL2000]

A guy rating 2100 in Florida... Beast....

 

[Baal]

panagiotis gionis when he was relatively unknown...he's a greek player defensive style...he has evolved his game since then and he's ranked 50 in the world i think

I love watching him. Defensive yes, but a huge forehand.

 

[Baal]

I've played Timothy Wang, 2500+ USATT, and Mark Hazinski, 2580+ USATT, (both US players) in open tournaments. Of course they destroyed me easily.

Here's some video I've uploaded of Timmy playing Jose Barbosa (Brazilian Jr. National Team): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5cXVkeWi_Q

and Mark and Timmy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS3Kd_yo1TA

I played with Timmy last week! He is really making progress this year. First time I played with him he was 8 years old.

 

[Baal]

I have played against Trinko Keen.

Wow. He was about 30 in the world in his prime if I remember correctly. His sister was good too.

 

[Ndragon]

I played against Graham Sandley in my league. Very good player. His ability to do everything was so high and you could just tell how experienced he was and was a well deserved ex england number 2.
I have also played Gergely Urban (Urfi) as you might know him. Again such a high standard. Will loop pretty much anything at the slightest chance

 

[Tek101]

I haven't really played many top people but who I have played is Richard Mcafee(USATT Hall of Fame), Francisco Mendez (Former Mexican champion), Austin Preiss(Top Junior in US), Yahao Zhang (Top Junior/ranked like 15th in the US), and Mitchell Seidenfeld. This hopefully to change when I am at nationals in a month in Vegas

 

[poltery]

My coach cause he often flicks my backspin and sidespin serves

 

[Michellius]

Wow. He was about 30 in the world in his prime if I remember correctly. His sister was good too.

He was 18th in his prime.

 

[jmech!]

Renata Stribikova, william henzell, simon gerada and gao ning. Gao ning takes the cake by far but the others aren't bad

 

[Dan]

Renata Stribikova, william henzell, simon gerada and gao ning. Gao ning takes the cake by far but the others aren't bad

Man, Gao Ning!! when was this > ?

 

[jmech!]

Man, Gao Ning!! when was this > ?

he was in australia for like 5 days and i saw him hitting with his girlfriend and he offered to give me a hit he was using a crappy bat but his serves were still ridiculous he is a great guy really nice and his girlfriend is hot

 

[Michellius]

dont think it was that dan, is just pure money in russsia i think. against grubba i played in ebgland and got it on film aswell, something to keep that one

Perhaps that is something to share with us? I'd love to see it.

 

[louisc]

Timo Boll.One day i really dreamed about it.And i almost win. lol

 

[josh4209211]

I have played my chinese friend named zhang rui ming and he was used to come to our university gym and play tt. he was the champion of his university. there was another guy he was playing for some club at provincial level here in china, i forgot his name coz we only played once and after that i haven't seen him again. both of them played with penhold style and teir technique was so great, even my friend zhang rui ming was beating a coach who gave me some tips about services. it was so good to watch them playing.