2010 German Open, March 18-21 (Berlin)

Does anyone remember these two previously unknown players:

skip3119 wrote: My memory failed me, I could not find the name of the highly ranked player that Tiago recently beat in a Pro Tour.  (So, my previous post was wrong.)   I don t know why this name "Apolonia Tiago" rang  a bell on me?

He beat WLQ and you know it.

It is really bugging me keep going to Ittf retrieving pass word - seeing the same thing,

rui pedro81 wrote: skip3119 wrote: Apolonia Tiago SEO Hyun Deok ??? ===============   I now recall these two players victims in the recent Pro tour are WLQ (corrected, courtesy of spitfire) and Xu Xin. ===============   Now for this German Pro Tour, can Chen Qi overcome Apolonia Tiago, and Matsudaira Kenta overcome SEO Hyun Deok?   damn, ignorance is bliss... but its interesting people still base their opinions on how good a player is based more on popularity rather than actual skills

what s your take on the two match ups above?

lol, Crisan lost to a way lower ranked player again, as did Kan Yo...

Also Kenta lost, no surprise, as I said.

*cheers* Over rated! *clap clap clapclapclap* Over rated!

Boll made it past one Korean 4-2, winning the last 2 games 15-13 and 12-10. Phew, that would have been sad if he lost in the first round.

Also Korbel actually won! Beat Cheung Yuk, go him.

spitfire wrote: rui pedro81 wrote: skip3119 wrote: Apolonia Tiago SEO Hyun Deok ??? ===============   I now recall these two players victims in the recent Pro tour are WLQ (corrected, courtesy of spitfire) and Xu Xin. ===============   Now for this German Pro Tour, can Chen Qi overcome Apolonia Tiago, and Matsudaira Kenta overcome SEO Hyun Deok?   damn, ignorance is bliss... but its interesting people still base their opinions on how good a player is based more on popularity rather than actual skills what s your take on the two match ups above?

well its too late now, but i actually thought it would go the way it went. chen qi and seo hyun deok winning. i also thought that the upset would be kenta beating Seo and not the other way around and that tiago had a better chance of beating chen qi than kenta beating Seo

" i also thought that the upset would be kenta beating Seo and not the other way around."

skip3119 wrote: "�i also thought that the upset would be kenta beating Seo and not the other way around." ================================= My comment: Kenta is ranked #35. SEO�is ranked #132. If Kenta beats SEO, that s normal outcome. If SEO beats Kenta, then that s an upset. So, we have an upset here.

Kenta is very, very, very, very, very over rated. This is like the 3rd straight pro tour event he s lost in the first round to a qualifier. He can hardly beat anyone in the Euro leagues, he just had a couple good showings that got him up that high but he is so over rated it s not even funny. On rating central he s ranked 166th and Seo is ranked 48th. Ittf doesn t take anything but their events into account so it s not as accurate. Also ITTF hasn t updated their rankings in over two months and taken the past 3 or 4 events into account.

Jonan wrote: skip3119 wrote: "�i also thought that the upset would be kenta beating Seo and not the other way around." ================================= My comment: Kenta is ranked #35. SEO�is ranked #132. If Kenta beats SEO, that s normal outcome. If SEO beats Kenta, then that s an upset. So, we have an upset here. Kenta is very, very, very, very, very over rated. This is like the 3rd straight pro tour event he s lost in the first round to a qualifier. He can hardly beat anyone in the Euro leagues, he just had a couple good showings that got him up that high but he is so over rated it s not even funny. On rating central he s ranked 166th and Seo is ranked 48th. Ittf doesn t take anything but their events into account so it s not as accurate. Also ITTF hasn t updated their rankings in over two months and taken the past 3 or 4 events into account.

LOL - the only upset we have going on here is Jonan

Jonan is right. No upset at all. Ratings don t mean sh*t when they re not only inaccurate, but haven t been updated for 2 months.

And, I must say, very disappointing for Fukuhara Ai. She goes from omg beat 2 Chinese players to epic fail. And I thought she had a good chance against Feng Tianwei.

Easy win for Maze won 4-1. Maze played amazing the last set. I think Maze is the best european chance in this tournament.

shaks wrote: Ueda Jin the japanese youngster upset hao shuai!! this kid is impressive

lol, hao shuai is screwed....wonder what would LGL say about this.

IceObsession wrote: Fukuhara s splendid form and medal hopes in the German Open were dashed by French Chopper Li Xue.  7    LI Xue FRA      12:00 - 19/3/2010   Table 6   4-2: LI Xue   11-9,11-9,11-8,10-12,7-11,11-9,-  8    FUKUHARA Ai JPN

Well Fukuhara s loss was kinda predictable. She has always sucked against choppers. Just look at her head-to-heads against choppers : 0/5 against Kim, 1/4 against Park, 0/1 against Ishigaki/Ganina/Wu ...

Man, all these young Koreans stepping up now taking down some vets...impressive unlike Germany thus far. Christian Suss won 12-10 in the 7th game, Baum won in 7th game then lost to Weixing, Boll had a tough match needing 6 and last 2 in deuce, Steger lost, Filus lost, as did another German. Dima has been great so far though.

Hao Shuai...that s what he does, he loses to random non-Chinese players.

GO KORBEL! lol, beating Kishikawa is no little feat.