Ai Fukuhara Controversy at the UAE Open 2011

[poppajaro]

Its funny how some people lay blame on every single Chinese for the actions of one young Chinese girl. She clearly displayed bad sportsmanship but you cant say all or most Chinese act this way. Every nation produces bad apples.

[bungsungwan]

I must admit after my first comments some four weeks ago and after many replays and discussions with team members, that the ball had indeed glazed the top edge of the table and the point should have been awarded to Ai. But it was such a close call and I would not condemn wen jia as a cheat. Rather I will praise Ai for her integrity and sportmanship.

[AllezCho]

Cute smile from Ai at the end, love it :) she's very humble and handled the whole situation well imo.

[packtim]

Fenton

[bungsungwan]

In all honesty, the ball may have actually glazed the side of the table and not the edge. I would say we will need technial expertise to verify rather than to make rather emotional and subject comments as with the video commentator. There was definitely a 'kink' in the arc but we need to look at the flight of the ball from the straight line which we do not and as a result we will not know 100per cent if the ball glazed the edge or the side.

[RKantola]

@bungsungwan Even a blind guy with a blindfold and no eyes would see it hit the side and from that angle it definitely did not glaze the side

[kizaman]

Its just bad sportsmanship that's all. Leave it at that. Politics and history should have no place in this game. Anyone whose talking shit about the countries based on this are just moronic and ignorant.

[iwatatakuya]

how shameful was that for that rude chinese shemale! lol

I'm glad Ai won! haha

[clalalalalalive]

shame on the chinese player. liar.

[IHKJasonakaBladeZ]

China got so cut! GO AI!

[dfunkt]

she KNEW she had lost that point on the edge, and she was totally lying. it is really sad actually, because china is so fucked up these days! most chinese people see honesty, integrity, and basic civility as a weakness. well, because of the current state of things in china, i know one thing: neither i, nor my son, wil go there again. last thing i want is for him to be run over and left to die in the street, or kidnapped by gangsters to be sold to a family without a son. china's nasty these days

[kizaman]

@dfunkt whats shameful is your reply based on a few articles. You shouldn't generalize the country based on one single situation.

[dfunkt]

@kizaman

lol! dude, i am not judging china based upon this single situation. i have been to china twice, am married to a chinese woman, know many hundreds of chinese people, follow news from china pretty closely, and can conclusively state that china is massively fucked up socially. here are a couple additional illustrations: "my father is li gang!", watch?v=uqozC6kHQeI

chinese people need to be better educated in how to be a good person.

[crayxt6]

except for wang liqin and kong linghui the chinese TT team are A-grade cheats and assholes,i do remember when they finally beat sweden in teams in 1995 ,there were reports that there would be calls to the swedes room when they'd be sleeping,electricity be cut off when they came for practise chinese women are even worse real smart and cunning,the chinese govt. is the worst -support pakistan,north korea,all terrorists's AK-47's and grenades are made in china.bastards i say.....

[Poseidon99Jeus]

I'm a chinese, but I support Ai because she is polite and honest.

[BlueSkiiez]

The guy who left the commentary box for President!!!

[olaniyi570]

All lot of bad blood between China and Japan. Alot of political/historical tension that the average spectator wont be aware of.

[peggyho]

wen jia deserves the lost. what a cheap slut

[shannonzheng]

Wen jia is such a biatch

[speedyuching]

用實力打回來!!

[olwetuor]

Wen Jia has no integrity. Deserve her right that she lost.

[useurcamera]

i love ai!

she's a great player

[mingcheng123]

Wen Jia just won China Open 2011. :(

[mrboogiemanjp]

What a dou-dou head this ref was!!

He refused to see the truth...and shame on this Chinese player...

Where is her sportsman ship?

Reminded me of Timo Ball's good sportsman ship when he played against Ma

Lin. He ended up loosing Ma, but he choose his dignity over cheap win.

That's the real difference between true Champ and cheap shit player.

It was so clear...it was an obvious edge ball...and Chinese knew bout it.

[Sebblord32]

the commentator is a hero :)

[Rand0mAsian]

i'm chinese, and this video disappoints me, such bad sportsmanship from the chinese player D=, glad Ai won!! and the chinese player seems so rude when ai missed her serve..

[LookB3hindU]

@Rand0mAsian You can't argue with the ref it would just penalize both of you for arguing with him. That's how bad ref's are. You can't blame the Chinese player because she may have not even known if if hit and just accepts the umps call. So her saying nothing was simply an innocent incident.

[888886611]

the empire was asleep...

[nomedigaschancho]

Fukuhara is a lady, at the end she shake hands with everybody.. she is a real good example of fair play...

[RicharDihno1]

Justice prevailed in the end...That Chinese girl will forever be known as a cheat.

[Miguel53de]

its nice ti hire handykept people everhwhere, but its not normal to have blind referees in an international competition. What a pity for Fukuhara. But thanks godness the story had a happy end,

[princepeco]

That is just weird, how can the referee declared it hit the side of the table when the ball is going outward? don't tell me he think the balls some how magically curve back to hit the side of the table.

[IceDefence]

It clearly was a edge ball, I've would had judged the point in Ai's favor

[BlueSkiiez]

4:30 , seriously, the fuck is wrong with the chinese player??? cho'ed like hell when Fukuhara missed the service, thats just perfect, first she steals a point, then she cho's on Ai's service miss... yeah, that's what I call great sportmanship........

[PintoTM]

In my opinion there was a clear lack of fair play by the chinese player. I'm sure she hear the touch of the ball in the edge. Even the umpire should hear it, maybe he was sleeping or something

[john66560]

stupid chinese player should not have cheated that point, lack of sportmanship. besides, she is ugly!

[Stuffcakes]

@john66560 This is not the way you talk about female athletes. You first generalize by calling it a "chinese", then make a remark about her appearance. You dont belong here.

[kitmo123456789]

HATE DI NING

[mingcheng123]

@kitmo123456789 Do you mean Ding Ning? Wait, this player is Wen Jia, not Ding Ning.

[tomo8104]

please look 4:35

[tomo8104]

it was 4:35 of this movie when Ai missed her boll

Chinese girls lough Ai hukuhara,,,

Japanese do not  like Chinese.

[gimplar]

@tomo8104 and the Chinese, especially the older generation, absolutely hate the Japanese. I think it's better with the later generations though. The whole Sino wars left a lot of bad blood.

[Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh]

@tomo8104 Do you think Chinese like Japanese? You dumass and go back read more about the WW2 history.

[Chinesekage]

ai fu got pissed and gave a beating lol

[joekwuen]

wow crazy rally by the end of the video :D

both r good lol

[charlieuninorte]

Ai Fukuhara..... I love you!!!!

[warudonaa]

Edge 

[Bossiiiii]

the empire falls asleep all the time... i have caught them on youtube sometime.. so this is normal

[Fakeslimshady]

the ball moves too fast for any umpires to know. Even i have difficulty umpiring amateur matches. But the players know. The chinese player has poor fair play

[gimplar]

@Fakeslimshady I wouldn't say that. Only through constant replays were they able to say it was edge. That type of edge you usually notice through sound, not through a visual cue.

[kaikaz]

@gimplar but here you didnt need sound, when I saw it happening I immediately said it was an edge. How else can a ball go from above the table hit the side ? Its almost impossible, maybe with side spin but in this case Ai didnt give any side spin so it was clearly edge.

[gfuentesv]

yes, the ball is good to de Ai Fuku

[TerIphik]

I don't understand why Wen J. celebrate her points (and mistakes of Ai) in this way, when precisely, she had not the reason: the umpires benefited her.

[utahjai]

I think the comentator should just stay to his day job and let the professional empire to do his. This same commentator was also mistakenly said the wrong score when DingNing was playing with Guo Yam in the first game in the UAE women final.

[krzymak]

Whaaaat ?! xD :) Did he left his box and started to shout that it was the Edge ?! Ohhh If so.. I LOVE THIS GUY :)

[17teacmrocks]

i saw it. however, it shouldn't matter.

they should either re-play the point or give the win to wen J.

like liu guoliang says, a match isn't won with skill by the difference of one or two points.

[kaikaz]

@17teacmrocks thats true but some are not strong enough mentally to cope with this. Its not just one point, she lost the set because of this.

[hawkfish88]

I'm happy Ai won.

[batamist]

Nice smile from the Japanese girl, she deserves to win

Poor fair play from the Chinese girl

[Hypoz]

The ball hit the side of the table, the commentator dun know what he is on about...

[ttprovider]

@Hypoz

how can the ball touch from the side, when it came from the opposite direction. it's physically impossible, this ball was clearly on the edge and the point should have gone to fukuhara.

[padiltimo]

wen jia know it touch the edge..as a new upcoming china player.she must win :)

[polskagranica]

in jesus christ

[ttmaster10]

if youur gonna cheat at least win :-)

[symphonicrain1]

The commentator left the commentary box for real to tell the umpires it was edge.

He's a funny guy :)

[mingcheng123]

@symphonicrain1 And shouted from the balcony, imagine how Wen Jia must've felt.

[bartek4443]

@mingcheng123 Imagine how Ai must have felt for losing a set due to a bad call. If she couldn't focus after that, than she has a very weak mental game, which is a huge disadvantage.

[kimyangwuk]

wow para que pija estan los arbitros eso fue muy sutil pero toco asi tambien le cagaron un set a joo se hyuk contra ma long solo q joo termino perdiendo

[kaikaz]

Never expected this from the chinese, they really went down in my respect. It was so clearly a touch. And from the reaction of ai, i could read that the coach was agreeing it was a touch but the chinese player just didnt want to give the point. Great vid but lame chinese!

[mingcheng123]

@kaikaz It was SO obvious. Were the umpires sleeping? -_-

[extremetabletennis16]

@kaikaz your a numpty this is one player not the whole country

[kaikaz]

@extremetabletennis16 I said I never expected this from the chinese? I didnt mean all the chinese players, just refering to the chinese player.

[bartek4443]

@kaikaz A lot of the Chinese players do this for some reason. The only very honest players are WLQ, Ma Long, and Zhang Yining. Many of the others would not hesitate to cheat a little to win (Wang Hao at WTTC 2009 or Ma Lin occasionally serving illegal serves)

[kaikaz]

@bartek4443 not really sure about WLQ but you are right about the others. I dont really like WLQ because he cho's on edges and net balls.

[DaFaiGai]

seriously ._. what an asshole of an umpire