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WTT Doha Day 2 Recap and Day 3 Preview

March 4, 2021 edgesandnets

WTT Doha has wrapped up day two of action in the men’s and women’s singles event. We summarize the results and highlight matches to watch in Day 3.

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WTT Doha Day 1 Recap and Day 2 Preview

March 3, 2021 edgesandnets

WTT Doha has wrapped up day one of action in the men’s and women’s singles event. We saw top seeds fall or come close to falling in both events.

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WTT Doha 2021 Preview Part 5: Cheng I-Ching and Liu Shiwen

February 21, 2021 edgesandnets

We take a look at Cheng I-Ching’s race with Kasumi Ishikawa for the fourth seed at the Tokyo Olympics and Liu Shiwen’s campaign to represent China in the women’s singles event at the Tokyo Olympics.

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Commentary from Stellan Bengtsson (Möregårdh's c Commentary from Stellan Bengtsson (Möregårdh's coach at the 2021 World Championships):

"He is trying to give the spin back. He serves side-spin and he just wants to return the side-spin there. That's actually what won him the match against Lim. When he did that twice in the fifth game. You just give all the spin back."

"That was Waldner's main really really big return that he did a lot. We call it the fake flick. You pretend to go in for the flick, and you slide it down to the backhand instead or you can slide it to the middle. And it's not that easy to know what type of spin that you get back if you haven't gotten that ball a lot."

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Stellan Bengtsson's (Möregardh''s coach at the 20 Stellan Bengtsson's (Möregardh''s coach at the 2021 World Championships) commentary on Truls’ smash:

"And now everyone is doing the roll, and everyone is doing the counter-loop. When he has the smash, hitting the ball flat, it makes a variation that makes it harder for the opponent, and it becomes unpredictable.

We've been talking with other coaches and players that the smash has actually disappeared from the game. When I played in the 70s up to the 80s, the forehand smash was a big shot. And of course, the Chinese pen-hold players, they use it a lot. Even after '89 when they lost to Sweden, when they took away most of the pips players.

But I think it's a good shot. There's maybe one that I'm not so fond of when he's far away from the table and he feels like he has no other option but to smash it, but I think it's a good variation. And the ball comes faster than it does with the loop."

"I think it's up to everyone to try to incorporate that into the game. I mean it's not an easy shot to do. And Truls has an amazing touch. I don't know if you realize how nice and soft his arm is when he's picking up the balls, and when he's holding the racquet with his right hand there. He's very very loose.

Also you [your elbow and paddle] have to be in front of you when you hit that ball and hit the top of the bounce and sometimes maybe a little bit earlier. Also you hit through the spin. And he does it a lot with his backhand. Maybe some periods I'd say he's a little too open on the angle of the backhand. Because then you get a total dead ball if you make it, but it's also risking a little that the ball is arcing the other way. So you need to be straight and a little bit closed when you do it.

If a player does it, you have to calculate that you're going to miss a few, but when you make them, it's spectacular."

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Full quote from Coach Stellan Bengsston (Möregår Full quote from Coach Stellan Bengsston (Möregårdh’s coach at  the 2021 World Championships:

“So in that match, it is a mixture of psychology, strategy, and also being really positive the whole time, because I felt there was something in it. I mean he lost the first game 11-9, having 9-all. He had two game points in the second game. And he comes to me and says, “I’m not so good against lefties.” And I say, “you play very well against left-handed players, because you had two set points. You don’t have to change anything. You just have to be aware of what he’s doing.” And for me, I was very aware that Lim played a lot of balls cross-court. I told him, “you may need react a little bit more on the cross-court. Even if the ball is hard, if you wait a little bit for it, you can probably get some balls back.”

And then of course, when the match started to reverse, that was when he started to serve with the backhand serve from the forehand corner, and the first one there, Lim just popped it straight up, and suddenly the momentum of the game changed.”

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#tabletennis #pingpong #bordtennis #trulsmöregårdh
33-Year Old Olympic Gold Medalist Ma Long recently 33-Year Old Olympic Gold Medalist Ma Long recently stated that he has no plans on retiring and hopes to play at the 2024 Paris Olympics during a media tour in Hong Kong. Ma has previously stated that he felt that table tennis players reach their physical peak around age 26-27 and their technical peak around ages 27 to 31, but at age 33, he still feels he is at his peak:

"I think it's very hard to reach the technical peak. They say 'there's no limit to knowledge.' Neither is there a limit to refining your skills because you can always create or learn new plays. It's not like weightlifting or athletics which have a specific limit in terms of seconds or kilograms for an athlete."

"I think now it's normal for players to keep playing in their 30s. Recovery, medical treatment and training today are more and more scientific. They will help extend our career."

Ma will play in WTT Macau on January 19-22. Along with Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, it will be their first international appearance since the Tokyo Olympics after they were sidelined from the 2021 World Championships as part of the Chinese National Team’s youth movement.

#tabletennis #malong #vino
In this post we take a look at key tactics and sty In this post we take a look at key tactics and stylistic match-ups that allowed Wang Manyu to defeat Sun Yingsha 4-2 (11-13, 11-7, 6-11, 11-6, 11-8, 17-15) in the women’s singles finals of the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships. This post is based off of Chinese National Team member Zhou Yu’s live commentary of the match.

Sun and Wang are two of the premier members of the Chinese National Team and won a women’s doubles gold medal together earlier in the day. As a result, the two are deeply familiar with each other’s game, and Zhou believed that the end result would come down to who was in better condition and could adjust their mental state from being teammates earlier in the day and handle the pressure of the moment better.

Zhou actually picked Wang as the winner before the match started for an interesting reason. Sun Yingsha had a relatively easier path to the finals, defeating Wang Yidi 4-1 in the semi-finals, and her closest match in terms of score was a 4-2 win over Adriana Diaz in the round of 16. In fact, from the round of 16 through the quarter-finals, Sun did not even have to play a single deuce.

On the other hand, Wang had come back from down 3-2 to win a 90-minute seven game thriller against top seed Chen Meng the day before. As a result, Zhou believed that she would be more psychologically “in the zone” and ready for the finals than Sun.

The result of the match ultimately largely came down to luck and mental toughness as both players were clearly a bit nervous and the quality of play declined at deuce in the sixth game. This is quite common for two well-matched players of such high caliber, and Liu Shiwen has also noted before that she feels like semi-finals are more entertaining to watch than finals because both players are nervous and play poorly in the finals.

We take a closer look at the psychological game in part 2 later this week. In today’s post, we will zoom out a bit and look at the general playing style and tactics of these two players during the finals.

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Ai further added that once she beat Ding Ning, and Ai further added that once she beat Ding Ning, and then afterward the CNT went back and studied her techniques and tactics: "it was like my heart was being torn to shreds"

Ai made these recent comments to Chinese media in light of Japan’s recent disappointing results at the World Championships. She appears to be launching a table tennis media career; after providing Japanese commentary at the Tokyo Olympics, she made a surprise appearance at last week's WTT Singapore, and recently created a Tiktok as well. 

Source: https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20211208002078-260404?chdtv

#tabletennis #pingpong #aifukuhara #hinahayata #mimaito #kasumiishikawa #乒乓球 #桌球
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