the new rules destroyed table tennis for me i loved the 21 rules and 38mm ball.

Wang in Waldner's era would have a career similar to Ma Wenge.His backhand and serve receive would have been exposed by Europeans even more.

Around the 1992 Olympics.He was clinical in 1997 but past his peak.

1989-1992.

Ma long is boring compared to waldner... A lot..

​@@Bxrzoiin general the game became boring after they removed the spin in order to accommodate silly audiences.

​@@NoSpeechForTheDumb I don't agree. The game now is way more atletic....its fast...bh banana, bh chopblocks, fh chopblock even more coming.. reverse pendulum/ hookservices.....Truls, Felix, Fan, Calderano are spectacular to watch and a lot of exciting games with tension to the very end...EK Sweden, Olympic games, Master Stuttgart and in China lots of spectators too.

@@klaasparlevliet2952 no athleticism of the world and no weird technique can compensate for the loss of spin by speed glue ban and the big plastic balls. That's why you have so many "interesting" long rallies today: Everything is simple now.

@@NoSpeechForTheDumb 70 to 75 percentage of points is in first 4 strokes...10 to 15 percentage stroke 5 and 6...so there are not many long rally's in general and if there are they are most of the time very word watching. If you look at tabletennis from 30/40 years ago its a lot of unforced errors and misreading serves ( because of rules) Quality of the game now is much higher; plastic balls or not...some people have a certain need to romantisice earlier times.....

Well look at how it's spelled, I think that was a simple mistake.

Lee-King

Doesnt JO have 6 himself?

@@samba2782 Sorry if I was not precise, I meant World Championships, not junior, not world cup, not other events.

@@samba2782 WTTC is the tournament that determines the best player every 2 years. WTTC is where all the good players will participate and the hardest TT tournament to succeed.

@@samba2782 no mate, waldner 2 singles 1989 and 1997 and Wang 3 titles

Waldner does have 2 WTTC in singles and 4 in teams.

Hm, nice beat with Waldners pure mistake in serve. That timeout was actually the only way to break the Waldners song

Definitely!

No such need for the final.

they mispronounced Waldner's name too. these announcers are pretty terrible

Vang Lee king 😂

I don't think so. The real TT game should be like this. The 40mm ball took spins away from TT.

If Waldner's game or Liquin's is boring for You, You dont know what TT is

Waldner serve unfair, wouldn't be allowed by today's rules

That is the power of hidden service.. therefore it is not allowed anymore in today's TT.

Wang Liquin had notoriously crappy return of serve.There's a match in 1999 against Kreanga and once Kreanga starts serving backhand serves to Wang's forehand he totally collapsed. As you may know it's pretty much impossible to hide the backhand serve.His short game was simply crap for the 38mm ball. He almost lost to an Australian at the 2008 Olympics because he couldn't read his tomahawk serve. Waldner wasn't even the worst match up serving wise for him 'cause he was particularly vulnerable to guys who liked to 3rd ball attack with their backhand like Wang Hao and Schlager.

@@maxk880 unfair? No it’s called a SKILL. Table tennis with a smaller ball, hidden serves required 10x more skill to play. It’s not unfair and people were actually good or bad at it. It was dumbed down to extend point length and rallies in the hopes it would bring mass appeal, which it still has not. Beyond that waldners real strength was in his point construction and strategy and variation in what he could do. The serves were just another strong point

@@maxk880 Not unfair if the rules were different at the time.

Yes, the same person.

My Op: not only different style of play but different rules and equipment. Would FZD be there - I believe would loose to Waldner because of this, be Waldner here - FZD would beat him.