Euro-Asia Cup: Vladimir Samsonov-Joo Se Hyuk

Euro-Asia Cup, 29-30 October 2011. Day 1,third match.

[@sallom432]

Samsonov's touch is amazing.. controlled Joo well.

[@user-hn1er9ms6o]

Красивая игра!Техника Самсонова - высший пилотаж!

[@mrmr1964]

A VERY GOOD win for Samsanov. Great to see him justify his world ranking here.

[@felmusik5043]

Joo the Poet of table tennis!

[@shogrran]

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.

[@Spacevet]

Vladimir Samsonov good against defending players. He a slow, strong player with good feeling and "bad" fotwork at that level.

[@ingullar]

@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.

[@yorch877]

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!

[@YuzmeKosuFitness]

And this "never" did not change.

[@quickzilver333]

@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.

[@davidvincent380]

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.

[@elodiedazur]

Entre Samsung et Joo, ça a toujours été très serré, mais jusqu'ici, Sam a gagné finalement.

[@salih81]

@EdMajinLee199999 It is so, because Joo make the game slower. When Samsonov plays to Ma Long he does not play so slow.

[@Lovett9x]

@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.

[@volodymyrnekhoda7017]

Красава

[@LightSpeed99999]

@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.

[@felixal]

SAMSONOV SAMSONOV

[@KaxMisha]

@goptty And also, Ma Lin has a 13-6 record against Joo, so mostly beats him too. You obviously have no clue here.

[@Donnerbalken_]

Joo and backhand smash? Did he change his racket or something ? oO

[@Mladen1kus]

does anyone know which rubbers does samsonov use?

[@Sakura_kawasakii]

6:23What a rally!

[@LeonieII]

@Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh There are websites with the stats ;-). Also: who would forget some great matches and their results!

[@omfgization]

joo played well :P

[@cholasz]

so anemic...

[@Deobfuscator]

What's the current score?

[@drusha1]

@smart0money hyuk i s a very clever player and doesn't slack down. but sami learned the techniques that is why he won

[@YuzmeKosuFitness]

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.

[@lockwyn]

ohh sammy!

[@zikky6]

Joo won't so better like before! :(

[@drogiakabest]

@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

[@KaxMisha]

@goptty Boll has a 5-13 record against Ma Lin, so hardly ever beats him...

[@azertyqwerty4528]

Les nerfs d'aciers! Accrochez vous.

[@lupzhero]

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

[@badcompany2984]

samsonov takes betablocker and win

[@a1988ditya]

chops from hell ..

[@ChickenNuggetGangsta]

Hyuk doesn't look 100%, only joo-ish

[@ArtWing8]

@Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh GOOGLE

[@goptty]

joo mostly loses to valdi , valdi always loses to ma lin and ma lin mostly loses to joo ......... btw timo beays em all =)

[@satyajeetghosh6238]

You've got to be fucking kidding me

[@Singhpinoy]

The best anti-defenders are Samsonov and Wang Hao

[@YuzmeKosuFitness]

For sure. But ma long, ma lin and zhang jike are very close to them.