FULL MATCH | Simon Gauzy vs Liang Jingkun | MS QF |

[@OlivierLebo-n3h]

What a game ! Liang Jinkung was releaved at the end but the little hug between the two was probably a sign of respect. Simon slowy regains is best form this past weeks.

[@carlosalbertosuarezmartin183]

Wow crazy match!! Congratulations both of them

[@Micky_Tick]

Yo 35:36 incredible wooow

[@glenn7484]

love LKJ's smile afterward too

[@blachgallery2701]

The Chinese smiled, that says it all

[@jiffou5239]

This was really awesome

[@effortless4588]

Just peak human performance

[@Спортмузыкаиавто]

Это будет длинная ночь сказал Гоузи, супер матч, француз всё равно молодец и заслуживает уважения, чуть чуть не хватило, но это уровень

[@transdata3035]

Great match! down 2 game and a match, Liang some how managed to claw back to victory. Both are excellent players.

[@sstone9]

Crazy match, LJK goes whole distance again, Gauzy missed only one point for 3:0 win!

[@bleach3856]

Simon ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@X-Fauve]

Really, LJK is the epitome of come back kid. Wow!

[@z0uLess]

so different styles. very interesting match

[@WeiLin-r1z]

Liang is a great player !

[@ShamyTV5K]

my favorite chinese

[@РустИс]

Мой тоже

[@fahadysf]

This was a crazy match.

[@effortless4588]

They are GREAT jeez

[@alexismamadou2193]

“A statue of stoicism, LJK… in a moment of madness” 👏 🎉

[@alexnice9847]

wow, a man who can come back from 2 games against him and save 3 match points can win anything. He should be allowed to the Paris JO. i replayed the service very slowly and it was not net, it's a pity, at 4-4, it was perfect draw nothing was lost, he could still win but this incident definitely made him lose.

[@TTDPocketRocket]

Crazy how strong mentally these Chinese players are. Liang struggled all game and gauzy in the form of his life and still Liang came out on top. I didn't see the ball touch the net in slow mo. Not sure what gauzy saw. It's a shame as he completely lost his focus after that incident. What a game thou. Love watching gauzy with his creativity

[@the100thtimelord2]

How did Liang "struggle all game"? He literally came back down 0-2 to win 3-2.

[@joachimmahoudeaux8619]

Gauzy was not in the form of his life, Xu Xin still remembers what Gauzy REALLY did in the form of his life

[@huhaotian]

What a pity for Simon! But at the 5th game, it was NOT a net! from the replay, we can check it clearly. Maybe Simon considered the shawdow of the ball touch the net. But, it is no way for Simon to save that point because Liang received a net as well and Simon had move backward... 😢 However, I think this is a fantastic game, and both of two players are great players...🎉🎉🎉❤❤

[@Raymond-tc5pz]

Several times that Liang came back from 0:2 even o:3 ,(played with Hugo in Houston).

[@jchanmcse]

At the 5th game @4:3 the ball served by Gauzy is NOT a net. Gauzy should not stop the play himself without the Umpire's call. The Umpire is correct & even Liang said no net.🧐By then Gauzy had lost his momentum and lost his chance!🤕

[@rogernguyen1273]

you must always focus on the game and not distracted by anything else and lost your mind

[@sveinkthomassen]

Suggest a timeout

[@shawnnl]

Are you blind, if you play ×0.25, look when the ball is approaching the net. It was the same height with the net, then it slightly touches and goes up. Simon clearly stopped playing

[@shawnnl]

This is really bad from wtt, he lost his tempo after this and lost the game because of that bad net judgments

[@akisasaki-b9m]

blind ? you? 1. It is shadow of the ball, same to the returning ball movement from Liang, also has shadow when passing over the net. 2. The ball smooth trajectory movement shown its not net. 3. Liang returned the ball, indicating Liang also thought it was not net, otherwise Liang will not play the ball. 4. If the opponent returned it, it is normal to continue to play. otherwise, you can stop to play at anytime as you like as the ball very often close to the net. 5. If you then suddenly called it net, it's unfair to the opponent. 6. Great sportsmanship consists in great performance and manner and enjoying pursuing greatest performance not quibble about winning or losing a point or the game. In conclusion, S Gauzy has no sportsmanship. ​@shawnnl

[@abdullahalan6366]

Simon son sette 4-3 öndeyken let oldu diye itirazi biraz uzatinca. Kendi konsantrasyonu kayboldu ve bi daha oyuna dönemedi. Yoksa yinede kazanabilirdi.

[@Addeionized]

If you go frame by frame there is one frame where the net seem to get slightly squashed down from the ball. Didn't look like only shadow to me but who knows. Either way you play the ball

[@chicnroots4339]

Great match, Gauzy played at a very high level. That's just a pity the referee didn't see the net because it was net for Gauzy. And I'm sure it has broken the momentum of Simon...He was frustrated by the situation and lost after that...

[@minalobudeshte]

Liang ❤❤❤❤

[@antoinelhomer8262]

Un match très serré, seulement c'est à partir de la let au 5eme set qu'il est sorti du match.. pas loin

[@marvinsun5485]

Gauzy 2.99 : 3 LJK

[@kyotoryo6569]

Now the question is who will play the singles for France.

[@rogernguyen1273]

for me should be Felix Lebrun and Simon gauzy Alexis beat his brothers but will lost against a lot players

[@david0ade]

Gauzy performing better than the Lebrun brothers???

[@djsantosa4757]

Le brun brothers is overrated

[@jantjejan]

What part of felix's performance is overated?​@@djsantosa4757

[@akisasaki-b9m]

1. It is shadow of the ball, same to the returning ball movement from Liang, also has shadow when passing over the net. 2. The ball smooth trajectory movement shown its not net. 3. Liang returned the ball, indicating Liang also thought it was not net, otherwise Liang will not play the ball. 4. If the opponent returned it, it is normal to continue to play. otherwise, you can stop to play at anytime as you like as the ball very often close to the net. 5. If you then suddenly called it net, it's unfair to the opponent. 6. Great sportsmanship consists in great performance and manner and enjoying pursuing greatest performance not quibble about winning or losing a point or the game, not to mention this is not net. In conclusion, S Gauzy has no sportsmanship.

[@cldpt]

I agree it was not a "legal", official net ball (and probably not a physical one either, but that is disputed). The important thing here is umpire decides dubious situations in tournaments. I do want to point out that your argument 3 make no sense - a lot of players will return a net serve for a) reaction and b) not having time to process it's a net point or not. Regarding 4. yes, Gauzy should have kept playing and waited for the umpire to call (or not in this case). Not call it himself. Your conclusion though, is a bit harsh. This is competitive play, and Gauzy was not being "unsportsman" to Liam, he was just having a healthy argument about the particular play. If you want to see lack of sportstamnship, go watch one of the many large team, physical contact sports that plague TVs like soccer or football or basketball :P

[@frankfeng4728]

If it is so hard to tell whether it is net (nothing impacted), probably there is no need to call.

[@djsantosa4757]

I hope this not new tactic from European player, in Singapore, Boll pressured Jingkun the same way about net thats is actually not happening, the ref is not as strict as this match and letting the player decide, Boll success , Jingkun give in and lose focus from 1-3 down, Boll quickly won the next 2 set since that incident making it 3-3. Thats why you can see Jingkun reaction when Gauzy try the same trick

[@jliang70]

Psychologically this is move did not help Gauzy, he was the one that suffer a loss of concentration to concede the next two points, he spent his emotional energy arguing with the umpire, if he just waved off this point and concentrate on the next points the outcome might have been different. Even at 4:4 the match was still winnable from Gauzy's perspective. Liang just laughed because he knew the ball did not touch the net and Gauzy created his own distraction.

[@rongrongmiao3018]

Well gauzy is from France. Frenchies all complain what do you expect 😂

[@bertrandfonteyn7086]

Too bad... My 3 thumbs up for Simon.

[@antiolah4906]

The camera always misses the precise moment of the serve. We're not interested in the players' armpits for 3-4 seconds; we want to enjoy the game. The entire table should already be shown before the ball toss. Not during the toss, at least a second before! Please replace the camera operator.👎👎👎👎👎

[@esmolol4091]

That we don't see the full serve is on purpose. The audience with knowledge of the rules should not see the illegal serves that don't get called out. That way only the umpire has the last word because there won't be any analyse from a third party. Chinese audience, chinese players, chinese rules and politics.

[@antiolah4906]

@@esmolol4091 This is not correct in my opinion. I believe the video editor is unfit for the task, clumsy in video editing. This has nothing to do with Chinese players and especially not with Chinese politics."

[@dipeshkukreja5341]

If you have the momentum don’t ducking stop the match

[@Ian-bb7vv]

I believe it was net

[@cldpt]

I also thought so at first due t the shadow, but then I decided to look at the spin: the ball doesn't lose any rotation speed from a net touch. You can see it somewhat clearly at 38:38. It was really close but in my opinion, even if it was a VERY MINOR net touch, umpire decides. Them's the rules

[@richyp7126]

Excellent use of the deliberately annoying and slightly subversive excess clapping by the Chinese coach. As usual.

[@rongrongmiao3018]

I hate the French guys randomly vocalizing in the game. Same as Lebrun brothers

[@konstantinbecker7698]

In this case and this circumstances Liang Jin Khun has not deserved to win this match!

[@the100thtimelord2]

Why?

[@hamlet2017]

What are talking about, you couch expert?

[@rogernguyen1273]

stop saying silly comment mate

[@cldpt]

I tend to agree, but that's because I like less orthodox players. The one thing that, to me, makes me have a bias against Chinese players is their excess amounts of basic technique, where they completely excel at and is also why they (not just Liam) can perform these amazing comebacks - consistency wins. That said, it's also why I love unorthodox Chinese players such as the man sitting down on China Team's chair, who pioneered RPB (Wang Hao), along with his Penhold antecessor (Ma Lin) and successor (Xu Xin). And why I am ABSOLUTELY in love with seeing such young players as Felix Lebrun makeit so big with RPB. But here, Gauzy brought something else I usually love in TT - bravado and point-level persistency. He lost it at the latter stages because, well, consistency just trumps it, especially on long matches.

[@markusp.7333]

One of the most exciting games I've seen in a long time 🤩I don't know if it was really the net, but Simon was definitely the better player here. Liang won undeservedly in my opinion. I wouldn't have shaken hands with him at the end 😒

[@rogernguyen1273]

The best player win no matter what you have to shake hand to be a good sportman no matter what mate

[@johnsausage]

I think Simon lost against himself in the last set where he was discussing about that one point to 4:4. If it had been a regular point he would have played better..

[@lcmb7591]

You're not sure if it's a net, and Simon is a better player, then you think Liang does not deserve a hand shake after the match. What wrong has Liang done?

[@larkiess]

It's a professional match, not a game with amateurs. You can't just call your own lets and expect the game to stop just like that. Sad for Gauzy but the loss was on him, nor the umpire or anything else.

[@markusp.7333]

@@lcmb7591 Please take a closer look. Every time Simon had match point, Liang hit the edge of the table and, out of luck, escaped down the line. In my opinion Simon was the much better player here and Liang won undeservedly.

[@robertmartian]

lost a lot of respect for Liang Jingkun, not gonna lie. Being classy and a gentleman is more important than any point, or any win. he had a chance to immortalize himself at 4:3 in the 5th, and squandered it. pathetic.

[@ericzhang5549]

what are you even talking about? Simon's serve did not touch the net.

[@jliang70]

Obviously Liang did not see this serve from Gauzy touching the net and he wasn't going to make a call on it because it wasn't his job to make a call. And he did not influence the umpire to make a call that disadvantage his opponent. Video replay showed no conclusive evidence of the ball touching the net and umpire certainly did not think so. If the ball did touch the top of the net there should be some movement of the net as the ball touched the very top of it, it might also change the trajectory and direction of the serve, we saw none of that in replay. When you freeze frame at 38:40 mark you see a clear clearance between the net and the ball.

[@the100thtimelord2]

Just be reading your comment I know you have never played any sport in your life.

[@ditml6796]

1) that serve didn't touch the net 2) Gauzy called the net ball after failing returning the ball (cheating and lying obviously) 3) the umpire made the right decision after checking the replay, and Liang had not argued anything about it since beginning so, what the hell is that Liang not being a gentleman?

[@rogernguyen1273]

@robert wrong judgement mate