One thing I know about table tennis is that, so far, offense > defense. No one has proven that wrong yet. There are great defensive players yes but so far most of the more successful ones are offensive.
@quickzilver333 That's right. Vladi said in his interview once, that he never had problems against defenders, because he had got a lot of practice against defenders when he was junior.
@smart0money It doesn't matter if Joo Se Hyuk was in his prime. Samsonov is very good in dealing with defensive players. As a matter of fact I don't think Samsonov has ever lost to any defensive player before.
@smart0money come on :)) you must be joking. ... you call this a relaxing match? They bought fought as hard as possible, both might have passed their prime but does not mean that Joo or Samsonov didn't play well. In fact it was a great match and Samsonov won because he played an extremely smart game.
Samsonov's touch is amazing.. controlled Joo well.
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Joo the Poet of table tennis!
A VERY GOOD win for Samsanov. Great to see him justify his world ranking here.
One thing I know about table tennis is that, so far, offense > defense. No one has proven that wrong yet. There are great defensive players yes but so far most of the more successful ones are offensive.
It's a shame Joo lost focus at the 5th set. He's my favorite player. I think he has never won to Samsonov :( Next match he'll win!
And this "never" did not change.
@quickzilver333 That's right. Vladi said in his interview once, that he never had problems against defenders, because he had got a lot of practice against defenders when he was junior.
Vladimir Samsonov good against defending players. He a slow, strong player with good feeling and "bad" fotwork at that level.
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@smart0money It doesn't matter if Joo Se Hyuk was in his prime. Samsonov is very good in dealing with defensive players. As a matter of fact I don't think Samsonov has ever lost to any defensive player before.
Impressive length variation from Samsonov, and his blocks are always so low and short over the net, even JSH have hard times to counter-attack them.
Entre Samsung et Joo, ça a toujours été très serré,
mais jusqu'ici, Sam a gagné finalement.
6:23What a rally!
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@smart0money come on :)) you must be joking. ... you call this a relaxing match? They bought fought as hard as possible, both might have passed their prime but does not mean that Joo or Samsonov didn't play well. In fact it was a great match and Samsonov won because he played an extremely smart game.
joo played well :P
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It is so, because Joo make the game slower. When Samsonov plays to Ma Long he does not play so slow.
so anemic...
@smart0money hyuk i s a very clever player and doesn't slack down. but sami learned the techniques that is why he won
@Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh There are websites with the stats ;-). Also: who would forget some great matches and their results!
does anyone know which rubbers does samsonov use?
@goptty Boll mostly loses to Ma Lin. He usually beats the other two, but has recent losses to Joo Se Hyuk in 2010 and I believe early 2011.
ohh sammy!
Joo and backhand smash? Did he change his racket or something ? oO
@goptty And also, Ma Lin has a 13-6 record against Joo, so mostly beats him too. You obviously have no clue here.
Joo won't so better like before! :(
What's the current score?
Wang hao, xu xin, ma lin, ma long got the clear edge over him.But Samsanov's loop and touch variations must be the most annoying style for jsh.
Les nerfs d'aciers! Accrochez vous.
@smart0money Samsonov always looks relext at the table and you cant say joo got really bad i saw him play an awsome match some months before
@goptty Boll has a 5-13 record against Ma Lin, so hardly ever beats him...
problem is joo can't play defense 100% of the time
he has to attack with loop also
trying to balance it out but still playing more defense
samsonov takes betablocker and win
chops from hell ..
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Hyuk doesn't look 100%, only joo-ish
joo mostly loses to valdi , valdi always loses to ma lin and ma lin mostly loses to joo .........
btw timo beays em all =)
You've got to be fucking kidding me
The best anti-defenders are Samsonov and Wang Hao
For sure. But ma long, ma lin and zhang jike are very close to them.