China Open 2010: Xu Xin-Timo Boll

[Darkoriangio]

xu xin is back !!!! from 1-3 to 4-3 DAMN this guy is astonishingly amazing

[michaeldeng1981]

I just became the fun of Timo!!!!

[skrymir1]

timo!



[Tytanisus]

jestem trolem

[Tytanisus]

alo nooby

[slax2501]

i hope I can play like them in my next life.

[MrLegendman13]

xu xin got fking attitude,i hate him!

[kranen1]

@MrLegendman13 A chinese with attitude, that's great! =)

[jasonxing1]

徐新应加强跑动练习



[ChessArmyCommander]

Also, I have not seen Xu Xin's latest matches, Its been a while since I watched him. Maybe he is getting the reverse penhold backhand going better now, I don't know. That would be great, I hope he does.

[skstv2010]

@chessarmycommander you must be retarded...... watch any asian player.

[ChessArmyCommander]

@skstv2010 Are you blind? Wang Hao doesn't have to cover huge amounts of space awkwardly from a bad position because of backhand weakness no where near the extent that Xin does, if at all. I've seen Xin kill himself trying to get a forehand in from a bad position over and over. I guarantee you he won't last as long as Wang Hau has if Xin keeps playing like that.

[ChessArmyCommander]

Xu Xin has to work too hard because he is trying to use his forehand all the time. That type of play will not last. He will be injured. He needs to get his back hand to be better. Then he will be ok.

[konglinghui2000]

@ChessArmyCommander Funny guy, haha

[Darkoriangio]

@ChessArmyCommander is it like ma lin?

[EpicPlayer3]

wtf! 3:55 look at these shots! what a force!

[TTFreak100]

I don't really understand, why Olympia is so important for them, yeah it's a big tournament, but the german open, the world championsships, the china open where better represented, because there aren't just 2 mens or womans, who are aloud to play! But it is one of the best video's of this great tournament! Thank you for uploading this !!! :D:D

[josh120130]

God dammit! Everytime I watch a sport in which i should be 100% neutral i end up somehow supporting one of the other and then they go and lose. Everytime!! :P

[Frank12345678973]

I suddenly have the urge to go play table tennis games on miniclip :/

[DyingElement]

Boll is pretty good.

[peter12345ps]

world best offensiv !!!

[theBlaechen]

at 2:05 Xu Xin looks very very good

[kmml1972]

timo didnt seem to be amuse by loosing that match..u can tell in his look...amazing match..

[CarploverHoyerswerda]

timo boll 4ever!

[hkjkdsifu]

What an amazing match! XX's mental strength won that!

Amazing stuff!

[Rk679]

7:11 wtf nice timo boll!!

[Joosehyukful]

at this point, timo was still making his fine adjustments ot the game without speed glue. Noticably, timo was a much faster, looping player in his youth. For a while we saw him revert to a more "hit block" type style. however, against the speed of the chinese, this would not work. This is the first match where i saw him go head to head with a chinese star in a looping battle and give a legit match. We are seeing the beginning of a new timo who is again ready to do battle with the chinese

[CsAnnihilationII]

timo is tight

[MrWaaghals]

Timo sooo deserved the win

[Aaaaarrrrrrggghhh]

I don't think Xu is material for being a leader. Too confident, he will fail.

[Galimah]

The Chinese players have extended Psychological edge in close matches. They show it again and again. Impressive to say atleast. I really wonder how they can be som tuff mentally

[tanxu]

u see that matchs they for against themselves this is nothing.

i was rooting for timo there

[GotchaPlayerRouven]

fair play xu xin ;) (sarcasm)

[vieti1995]

I hate xu xin -.-''

[sfiris22]

Amazing match and a great video to watch for skill and strategy!

[Joosehyukful]

what did timo say at 5:17?

[RobinTT89]

@Joosehyukful he said: "very fair" ironically

[J0kerofHearts]

xu xin's underwear is so distracting...

[J0kerofHearts]

hahaha xu xin. the first thing he does after he wins is sniff his nose.

good thing ma lin kicked him into shape since august

[SuperdudeFlexiRandom]

anyone notice they're both left handed?

[DaKrazedKyubizt]

3:18 Did Boll just do something REALLY REALLY Asian (no offense to Asians)? you know, the "ZHUOOOO!!" thing?

[Azariah97]

What makes a Table Tennis Player Great? I don't know but, from what I have seen this was probably one of Xu Xin's no so excellent perfomances (although he came back to win the match). Xu Xin seemed really slow and normally he has lightning fast feet.

On the other hand... Tima Boll played really agressive. Congrats to them both

[111WorD111]

These guys have epic games! TT doesn't get much better than this!

[WaiHungKenYip]

powerful forehand...

[defrogess]

the power of side spin

[simpanz]

wow, great match with awesome rallies! btw is prause still german head coach or was he replaced by rosskopf?

[skeptiker1337]

@simpanz he was replaced.

[Assassine8]

5:02 Timo`s point!!!



[ttCrawsaive]

Damn, timo had match point and 8-5 lead at 3-1!

About that fair play, it was a double touch I think, if Timo says it, it's 99% of the time right.

Xu is not yet a gentle man like Boll, Samsonov, Liqin, and Wang Hao.

[mcdirth03]

@ttCrawsaive Is Wang Hao Gentle man ? :) i've met with him and he was so arrogant :) He has super ego

[ttCrawsaive]

@mcdirth03 Yeah, could be, but in the match, as a tt player, he would not discuss about a point in his advantage. He says it if the point is given wrong, even when it's not in his advandtage.

About the accident in the 2009 wttc final in the first set, I don't think it was a double bounce, but just hitted Hao's finger.

[sehskyle]

if you pause the video in full screen on the INSTANT (yes there is a frame like that) you can see that the ball hits right where Xu's thumb and pointer finger meet, which is right where he points to, and I think he asks Timo whose point it was based on where he contacted it. Where he points on his paddle right after that point is completely accurate though. Also I agree with blkhwk, one point shouldn't matter, and there are plenty of net points which are harder to return than an off the hand bal

[blkhwk737]

I agree in the fact that fair play is one of the most important things in table tennis, but I must say, 1 point in 1 set when you're leading the match is no excuse for losing. He might have lost the next point, but there is no reason to keep thinking on that the rest of the game.

[lopezrodriquez]

chinesee cheater

[jauggg2006]

One has to be a ping pong player to understand the physical and mental skills these two players possess. No wonder they are the top ten in the world.

[BollTimo]

@tyoungos athelic ability to sheat?

[TimoBollFan09]

Xu Xin has pissed me off!

[GecaPhoenix]

Amazing match and good quality man!Thanks a lot,I liked it!:)

[ngwoonlam]

fantastic performance from Xu Xin and Timo Boll. Excellent video. Thanks

[1Hyk]

Xu Xin's become a bit of an ass, nice TT though from both players

[MrRothhaendle]

*it was the 6th set

5:00

(never saw boll this pissed off)

[salseroberlinense]

@MrRothhaendle

Can u actually see that on the video? For me it's too fast. Or the resolution is too bad?

[MrRothhaendle]

@salseroberlinense on the video u can guess it

but on ittv they had a slow-motion of this situation and u can clearly see it

(xu would do these gestures if he'd be unguilty, though)

jörg rosskopf and boll complained about xu's fairplay in a interview on tischtennis.de (too bad it's not in englisch). and i totally agree with timo!

[salseroberlinense]

@MrRothhaendle

The ittv slow motion is not online, is it?

[MrRothhaendle]

@salseroberlinense i can't find the slow-mo in the vod

maybe it was a feature in the live-broadcast

[ChenWeixing92]

@MrRothhaendle in the interview timo said that he dominated the game and could have won the game with 4:1 perhavs even 4:0.

Furthermore he says that in the end xu xin played a little bit better but he betrayed timo at one point,when he didnt call that double touch.

He also say that it was a good match but to loose it that way is bitter.

Rosskopf just mentions that timo is a 100 percent fair player,so in his opinion it is sad that there are athletes who arent interested in fair play.

[ChenWeixing92]

@ChenWeixing92 Rosskopf also says that it is important as a table tennis player to be able to leave the table in the end with a pure conscience and that xu xin wasnt able to do it today.

[kaikaz]

@ChenWeixing92 in the rules it says that you can play the ball with your hand. If it touches your hand and the paddle then its not allowed, but nobody will know except for xu xin if the ball did hit twice or not. But its normal that a player should give this point to his oponent but if you are losing, you never know what you would do.

[alfen15]

@kaikaz Its actually accepted that the ball hit twice now, as long as it is in one movement. Its though not approved that the ball hit the shirt and then the rackert.

[TristanGoesYT]

@alfen15 But it wasn't at the time this match was played.

[FearOfTheMax]

@kaikaz I think now they did change the rule for dopple-hitting the ball. So it's okay to touch the ball twice if it is not volitional.

[MrRothhaendle]

@ChenWeixing92 isnt it what i wrote?

[MrRothhaendle]

xu didnt deserve to win

boll dominated the game and could win it 4:0 / 4:1

and xu wasnt fair in the 5th set 0:0 (he touched the ball twice,but didnt admit it)

[knowlagesearch]

I was chearing Timo from all my heart all the game, but good luck to Xin.

[DuchDoby]

No one euro player beat Xu Xin yet! great match! So bad Xu lost with ma Lin.

[Gamawarrior]

What a level ! Timo played amazing like Xu Xin !! Too bad that timo didn't win but what a great match !

[rcmontecalvo]

xu xin makes the most impossible shots 7:29

[Beeray11]

timo was pisssssed.

[stalvio007]

Хu Xin showed hes character in this battle...

am really glad for him

they both play cool anyway!!

[lightmobile]

ok I'm pausing this video at the 2:00 mark to say... FUCK YEAH!! GO TIMO!!! you got this!! amazing he's the only one who can loop with the chinese... I'll finish this comment after I watch the rest

noooooooooo timooooo ahhhhh how could go

[justin90876]

LEFTY BATTLE FTWWWWW.

[pedrocamarada]

that isn't the fist time that timo lost a match like that

[shadowskillet14]

What happened exactly? And what an EPIC match.

[iR3AP3R]

love Xu Xins t shirt

[BollForte94]

5:13

Timo Boll : Very Fair :D

Timo Boll wird schlagfertig

[billalphonso79]

fantastic match!timo should have won

[forestloves]

Coolest outfit ever from Xu Xin :D

[luzok]

许昕果然是能打硬仗的啊！另外波尔又涨球了，正手对拉好爆。

[ultrazman14]

@luzok seriously. amen bro

[papajama24]

There were some incredible rotations, especially from Xu Xin. Great mach.

[apun94]

timo had the upper hand in the last game, but gave it away! damn! so wanted timo to win!

[UsakoKirei]

great match +1 :)

[k1arim]

that was a great match!!

i wanted timo boll to win though..

they both played great.

that's for uploading the video

[bartek4443]

there needs to be instant replay in this sport.

[jperssonisthebest]

XU XIn roools !!!!!!!!!!

[crazytoot]

Insane. I could watch these two battle it out for hours.

[TabletennisDavid]

Unlucky loss :(