The German Open 2009

Anyone got any videos? Cause this thread is in the Videos section - let's have some!!

Ai Fukuhara vs Silbereisen Kristin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNA9YRMo4d4

Will add more soon, just you wait.

The previous game Barthel-Sun B.B. was very spectacular,a lot of bh shots.

YES Sayaka beat Wang Yue Gu. Jun is playing Chuang right now. He is in the doubles semifinal with Seiya. And in womens doubles its Hiroko Fujii and Kasumi Ishikawa.

Oh no, Sayaka had beaten Wang Yue Gu and Sun Bei Bei is the only SG player left. Good luck for her.

And doubles too. ;D

This is the post glue ban era. The playing field is much more equal.

Cyberpukish wrote: Timo just cleared Chen Weixing, seems like a close match from the live scoring.

It was pretty close... and Chen Weixing was the crazy maniac that he is, like usual, loud and angry after his missed shots. I think he could've won against Boll, had he kept to his backspin tactic and not tried (and failed on many) topspin shots from below the table. Against this kind of Timo Boll, I think Joo would've won, since Joo plays pretty intelligently (from what I see) compared to Weixing.

johnny89atc wrote: Who is in the semi-finals? Chuang or Mizutani?

Mizutani is against Boll in SF, and it looks like it may be a Boll - Samsonov final.

johnny89atc wrote: le xex wrote: if someone could make a high-def recording of the boll-mizutani semi-final it would be very much appreciated... I didn't see your post, I guess Mizutani won...

NoFootwork wrote: Chen was down 6-10 in one game, fought back to deuce and lost it 13-11 trying to counter softly some of Timo's loops once he got to 10-10.  I think the extra topspin from Boll's Tenergy wasn't controlled well by Chen on his soft counter loop attempts and he invariably hit long.

Yep, I saw that, but there were many times when he did backspin, and Timo smashed it, and as he tried to pick up the ball down low with a forehand topspin stroke, he hit it into the net multiple times. After those moments, I was just thinking... why why why...? I mean, the way I see it, if he even succeeds at that stroke, then he'll give Timo a perfect chance to smash a topspin/no spin ball. That can't be good... (then again, my world ranking is way lower than Chen Weixing's)

Samsonov is awesome. 4-0 vs Gao ning. 2 last sets was led by 10-5...and won 12-10 ! 2 times in a row he scored the last 7 points. Never seen that before. Have you ?

When is the live streaming suppose to start? Or did it already start?

Cyrilix wrote: Cyberpukish wrote: Timo just cleared Chen Weixing, seems like a close match from the live scoring. It was pretty close... and Chen Weixing was the crazy maniac that he is, like usual, loud and angry after his missed shots. I think he could've won against Boll, had he kept to his backspin tactic and not tried (and failed on many) topspin shots from below the table. Against this kind of Timo Boll, I think Joo would've won, since Joo plays pretty intelligently (from what I see) compared to Weixing.

It's good to see him being frustated and annoyed. It displays a sort of passion and human side to the game. It will be so boring to see '2 robots' playing against one another. One question, does throwing you bat on the table damages the bat? I have never done it before and i probably wont want to try it either

 iceobsesion what happened to li jiawei?

Does anyone have Dimitrij Ovtcharov vs Gerell Par? [Video]

Dima got beaten 4-2 and Par is only ranked like 66...

and how Feng TianWei got 0-4 down to Pavlovich?!