Zhang Jike signs with Donic

[Lazer]

I agree with ZJK about the weight of a blade; anything above 90 gr is just crazy for amateur. Personally, I prefer it 83-86 gram.

Depends on the rubbers as well…
With light rubbers it’s good. You then get a low center of gravity with a little weight behind. This is better than a light blade with heavy rubbers.

Cheers
L-zr

 

[Matt Hetherington]

I think Gewo was very lucky
Aruna benefited with 40+ and timing was good
Joola before him, sales was probably terrible.

But then, they also didn't have color rubbers and Joola was still run by the previous regime (the newer crew is way better - yes, talking about you @Matt Hetherington)

Aruna was actually not in the radar for most of his 20s.
40+ change, especially from Rio OG, he started to become a bit more famous (just so you know, he was 28 at rio og)

Got a fun one for tomorrow

 

[ThePongCommenter]

Got a fun one for tomorrow

Do I win a prize if I can guess?

 

[mikeytt]

Got a fun one for tomorrow

my guess is Pitchford,his post on Instagram kind of sounded like his sponsorship with VICTAS was over

 

[ThePongCommenter]

my guess is Pitchford,his post on Instagram kind of sounded like his sponsorship with VICTAS was over

Saw that he is removed from the VICTAS Advisory Staff webpage

 

[mikeytt]

lots of sponsorships shuffling around, rising talent oh junsung has signed with tibhar

 

[Tyce]

Singing the unsung 🤣

 

[mikeytt]

my guess is Pitchford,his post on Instagram kind of sounded like his sponsorship with VICTAS was over

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[Robin0910]

lots of sponsorships shuffling around, rising talent oh junsung has signed with tibhar View attachment 33996

From Dignics 09c to K3?

 

[PoppaChubby]

I'd like to say it again, remember what I've told yall a few days ago. Butterfly is done, it's over, period. Donic ? steals ZJK from Butterfly, Joola ? steals Pitch. Tibhar ? the Bros. effect: steals a promising youngster playing for... a french pro A team.

K3 > D09C

That's a fact now.

 

[PoppaChubby]

From Dignics 09c to K3?

The Bros did the same, did they do wrong ?

 

[ThePongCommenter]

I'd like to say it again, remember what I've told yall a few days ago. Butterfly is done, it's over, period. Donic ? steals ZJK from Butterfly, Joola ? steals Pitch. Tibhar ? the Bros. effect: steals a promising youngster playing for... a french pro A team.

K3 > D09C

That's a fact now.

JOOLA "stole" Pitch from Victas not Butterfly. And I doubt either of them are weeping about not sponsoring a player on the cusp of retirement who is mostly irrelevant on the world scene nowadays.

ZJK retired years ago, is hardly involved domestically, and has a load of controversy. Butterfly terminated his contract, DONIC didn't "steal" him.

 

[ThePongCommenter]

Let's compare Team Tibhar vs Team Butterfly, so we can see just how "done" Butterfly is:

​

Tibhar​	Butterfly​
Felix Lebrun​	Fan Zhendong​
Alexis Lebrun​	Tomokazu Harimoto​
Darko Jorgic​	Lin Shidong​
Oh Junsung​	Lin Yun-Ju​
Alvaro Robles​	Dima Ovtcharov​
Milosz Redzimski​	Timo Boll​
Eduard Ionescu​	Qiu Dang​
Bernadette Szocs​	Miwa Harimoto​
Annett Kaufmann​	Adriana Diaz​
Tomislav Pucar​	Patrick Franziska​
Kay Stumper​	Anton Kallberg​
Manav Thakkar​	Kristian Karlsson​
Cedric Nuytinck​	Shunsuke Togami​
Danilo Faso​	Lim Jonghoon​
Giorgia Piccolin​	Hiroto Shinozuka​
Paul Drinkhall​	Lee Sangsu​
Manu Lebesson​	Marcos Freitas​
Tomas Polansky​	Kanak Jha​
Franzi Schreiner​	Cheng I-Ching​
Andrei Istrate​	Ruwen Filus​
Florent Lambiet​	Kirill Gerassimenko​
Andrea Dragoman​	Sofia Polcanova​

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Wang Nan and Fukuhara couldn't compare in terms of craze. Most of the Chinese fans of those two played table tennis back then.

you still got that episode of Wang Nan's last match and her fansgirls bought something like 10000 roses or something like that. the CCTV episode covered a lot of the fans.
not sure if you old enough to have witness that episode
maybe you can try find it, and see if those fangirls are tt players. Didn't look like to me.

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

Let's compare Team Tibhar vs Team Butterfly, so we can see just how "done" Butterfly is:

​

Tibhar​	Butterfly​
Felix Lebrun​	Fan Zhendong​
Alexis Lebrun​	Tomokazu Harimoto​
Darko Jorgic​	Lin Shidong​
Oh Junsung​	Lin Yun-Ju​
Alvaro Robles​	Dima Ovtcharov​
Milosz Redzimski​	Timo Boll​
Eduard Ionescu​	Qiu Dang​
Bernadette Szocs​	Miwa Harimoto​
Annett Kaufmann​	Adriana Diaz​
Tomislav Pucar​	Patrick Franziska​
Kay Stumper​	Anton Kallberg​
Manav Thakkar​	Kristian Karlsson​
Cedric Nuytinck​	Shunsuke Togami​
Danilo Faso​	Lim Jonghoon​
Giorgia Piccolin​	Hiroto Shinozuka​
Paul Drinkhall​	Lee Sangsu​
Manu Lebesson​	Marcos Freitas​
Tomas Polansky​	Kanak Jha​
Franzi Schreiner​	Cheng I-Ching​
Andrei Istrate​	Ruwen Filus​
Florent Lambiet​	Kirill Gerassimenko​
Andrea Dragoman​	Sofia Polcanova​

comparing with Butterfly is silly
the only people who can challenge Butterfly is really DHS
No one else has all star list like Butterfly and DHS

 

[ThePongCommenter]

comparing with Butterfly is silly
the only people who can challenge Butterfly is really DHS
No one else has all star list like Butterfly and DHS

People believe what they want to believe even when looking at the actual facts clearly paints a different picture.

 

[NextLevel]

From Dignics 09c to K3?

K3 Pro, which is more like Jekyll and Hyde 55. Not really a bad rubber, and given the durability requirements of pros, the boosted effect doesn't affect them as much as amateurs since we don't wear out our rubbers every week or other week.

 

[zeio]

you still got that episode of Wang Nan's last match and her fansgirls bought something like 10000 roses or something like that. the CCTV episode covered a lot of the fans.
not sure if you old enough to have witness that episode
maybe you can try find it, and see if those fangirls are tt players. Didn't look like to me.

It was her boyfriend and future husband Guo Bin that prepared those 10001 roses, after the unexpected upset by 문현정/Moon Hyun Jung/文炫晶 in WS R16 at WTTC 2005. The fans from her fan club 楠忘王楠 were there to "see her off" because they thought it was her last major international competition and so did Wang Nan.

楠迷献上10001朵玫瑰 王楠流泪，幸福地感动着
http://sports.sina.com.cn/o/2005-05-07/13491546426.shtml

　　2005年5月6日上午，上海体育馆门外。十来个小女孩只穿着短袖T恤，伫立在雨后瑟瑟的凉风之中，守候着地上数不清的玫瑰，守候着她们的爱。不用问，她们T恤上“楠忘王楠”的字样，早就暴露了她们的身份———王楠的球迷。“我们来自全国各地，我们专程来看王楠的，这是她最后一次打国际大赛……”

王楠真情告白:胭脂泪不只为10001朵玫瑰而洒(图)
http://sports.sina.com.cn/o/p/2005-06-08/10201602063.shtml

　　《乒乓世界》：大家现在最关心的，就是王楠是不是最后一次参加世乒赛了？那么你考虑没有，自己究竟什么时候选择退役，退役之后又会过怎么样的生活呢？

　　王楠：世乒赛，应该是最后一次吧，毕竟我年龄不小了，以后还要过其他生活，而且，这种大赛的机会，应该给小队员了吧。至于退役，我还没有确定具体时间，我也没有给自己划定什么日期和设立什么具体目标。5月18日，我还要去秦皇岛打全运会预赛，主要是我和郭跃代表辽宁女队的双打。一切等全运会完了再说吧，我想，那时候，何去何从，自己应该有一个差不多的决定了。生活，对于所有20多岁的女孩子都是很有吸引力的，这么多年当运动员，平时都是在赛场受刺激，过集体生活，到处奔波，我也渴望那种平平静静的日子。和自己相爱的人走到一起，有一份自己喜欢的事情做，感觉是很惬意的。

楠郭恋男主角：万朵玫瑰哄王楠 她赢我醉了(图)
http://sports.sina.com.cn/o/2005-11-10/09001871715.shtml

　　万朵玫瑰哄王楠

　　一位是世界冠军，一位是商界精英，他们的相识是否有很多的戏剧性和浪漫呢？郭斌笑着说：“我们俩是在青岛相识的，那次是一个全国的公开赛。我和刘国梁、蔡振华是好朋友，所以就认识了王楠，那时候她刚刚二十出头，当时也没想那么多，就当是多认识一个朋友。”

　　“楠郭之恋”在媒体上初露端倪是在2005年5月的上海
世乒赛上。当时，王楠没有拿到自己预想的成绩，在单打比赛中输得很惨，郭斌便买来10001朵玫瑰，托球迷的手将王楠点缀成上海滩当天最美的女人。“那时，我在北京看直播，看她输了球，就打电话告诉朋友，叫人赶快买鲜花，朋友凑了十几家花店，买了10001朵玫瑰送给她，第二天早上我就飞到上海去陪王楠了。”

老公郭斌曾送给王楠10001朵玫瑰花 王楠的反应太真实了！
https://i.ifeng.com/c/7sdGb1E64LA

 

[Tony's Table Tennis]

The fans from her fan club 楠忘王楠

so these fans are all table tennis players?

 

[JackJohnson]

Where does Zhang Jike uploads his coaching videos. I see Youtube channels posting it but want to find the original source of those videos.