I played against Ding Yi, Hsu ShengCai, Chetan Baboor, and even Marcos Madrd!
Whose the best player you've ever played against?
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I played against Ding Yi, Hsu ShengCai, Chetan Baboor, and even Marcos Madrd!
Man, I wish I had the chance to play some really really good players. I have played a couple of 2000 players only, and I reached the 5th game in a best of 5 with both of them. For most of my life I have only really played against players who were either as good or worse than me, and thats not really conducive towards making your game better, in fact most of the time it can have the opposite effect.
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I played Henzel too. It is amazing how impossible it was to ever get a feeling I knew where the ball would go.
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I have played with a chinese guy called Chang hong Jiang, he was top 70 in the world i think. Oh i almost forgotten, a guy called Tom Johansen from my club i Norway has beaten waldner 2 times. I have played with him!
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I've played against som good players.. I've trained with Mikael Appelgren and Jens Lundqvist. I've only played 3 balls against Jörgen Persson and J-O Waldner. I live in Sweden so that's because i've only played against Swedish players!
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Yeah I know, I live in Norway and he competed on a tournament here called Modum Open, and my club paid him to play with the young players in my club.
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The best ones I've played so far are Zhang Dong Ying and Adam Pattantyus.
Zhang is Vytas' teammate and a 45 or so year old Chinese who is having a very impressive season in the Belgian competition. He's ranked 429th apparently, but I believe he should be quite a bit higher up, at least 100 spots higher. For example, he beat Gacina in competition this year. Although he's an elder Chinese, he plays shakehand with smooth rubber (I think anyway, Vytas?). I find him to play very tactical, playing very well to the corners of the table. I've had the opportunity to spar against him once.
Pattantyus is ranked 259 and is a Hungarian modern defender with long pimples on his backhand. He comes to Belgium to the tournament of Torhout every year. I've played doubles against him in a recreational tournament.
Saive recently held a demo at my club, and about 15 players where drawn who were allowed to play a few points against him, but unfortunately I wasn't one of them
Not as impressive as most other here
Zhang is Vytas' teammate and a 45 or so year old Chinese who is having a very impressive season in the Belgian competition. He's ranked 429th apparently, but I believe he should be quite a bit higher up, at least 100 spots higher. For example, he beat Gacina in competition this year. Although he's an elder Chinese, he plays shakehand with smooth rubber (I think anyway, Vytas?). I find him to play very tactical, playing very well to the corners of the table. I've had the opportunity to spar against him once.
Pattantyus is ranked 259 and is a Hungarian modern defender with long pimples on his backhand. He comes to Belgium to the tournament of Torhout every year. I've played doubles against him in a recreational tournament.
Saive recently held a demo at my club, and about 15 players where drawn who were allowed to play a few points against him, but unfortunately I wasn't one of them
Not as impressive as most other here
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I played Jeff Lin Huang (USATT rating over 2400, was among the top 50 junior player in US at that time) in the open-tournament twice at different occasion(Grace Lin's son, she teaches in a table tennis training centre in LA, USA).
The first time I played him, he destroyed me completely, I think I did not score more than 5 points in 3 games. He is a very aggressive-attack type of player, every serves and every serves return he can attack to win a point, he will attack. I remembered almost all the balls coming back were always either on the white perimeter line of the table or very close to it and at very, very high speed. But this made me realized/ and experienced first-hand the possibility of speed and accuracy that comes with hard training and dedication that higher level players have achieved. And that level of playing becomes something that I can aspire to reach in the future.
The second time around was about a year after this, in another open division tournament, I lost to him 3-0 again but managed to get 11-8 or 11-9 in some of the games. I managed to get some rallies going by fishing the ball standing way back from the table, just block-pushing/ returning his fast attacking balls until I have a chance to attack it back or until he made some mistakes. It was quite fun! And I think I learned a lot playing with high-level players, even when I was being trashed!
The first time I played him, he destroyed me completely, I think I did not score more than 5 points in 3 games. He is a very aggressive-attack type of player, every serves and every serves return he can attack to win a point, he will attack. I remembered almost all the balls coming back were always either on the white perimeter line of the table or very close to it and at very, very high speed. But this made me realized/ and experienced first-hand the possibility of speed and accuracy that comes with hard training and dedication that higher level players have achieved. And that level of playing becomes something that I can aspire to reach in the future.
The second time around was about a year after this, in another open division tournament, I lost to him 3-0 again but managed to get 11-8 or 11-9 in some of the games. I managed to get some rallies going by fishing the ball standing way back from the table, just block-pushing/ returning his fast attacking balls until I have a chance to attack it back or until he made some mistakes. It was quite fun! And I think I learned a lot playing with high-level players, even when I was being trashed!
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Best players I have played against: In recent times it would have to be William Henzell (Australian No1 for the past six or so years), and his team mate from German Bundeslige (2nd division) Alex Fischer, both awesome players. Past players, only one that counts; Paul Pinkewich (still playing against him periodically, still can't beat him). In Australia Paul is the living legend of table tennis, has been mentioned as far back as the early seventies by one of Englands more colourful and controversial players (but brilliant in his era) in his table tennis handbook, the great but often maligned Chester Barnes (or at least he was in my youth). Pinkewich is still today a force to be reckoned with at nearly sixty years of age. Without a doubt one of the all time great defensive choppers.
). Pinkewich is still today a force to be reckoned with at nearly sixty years of age. Without a doubt one of the all time great defensive choppers.
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The best players i played is Timo Boll.
Only 10 mins i think. But it was really cool.
After the "practice" he played with as a small pimple tournament.
It was a weekend practice course in duesseldorf.
Only 10 mins i think. But it was really cool.
After the "practice" he played with as a small pimple tournament.
It was a weekend practice course in duesseldorf.
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