Waldner wins 1996 European Championships

[nashatwork]

These guys are so courteous and humble on the table... even after being so competitive... Awesome... classic... thanks for sharing...

[badcompany2984]

Persson cant play dominant.

[bujinkanmurcielago]

What a relief for a big Waldner-fan, that he finally won that big single's title.

[QuantumStates]

Waldner, Wang Liqin and Kong Linghui. These guys all had the best shakehand style of play.

[JaxAkaJT]

ugly serve persson have there :P

[ryanqzpeters]

if i was playing in those i would be the champ. XD

[fullfunk]

21 allowed the best player to recover more often than with the new format of 11

[Lisle2nd]

@fullfunk truer words never spoken!

[Deobfuscator]

@fullfunk Was that a good thing, in fact?

[sak0815]

Back in the days were Twix was Raider and table tennis sets went to 21. Nice little travel down memory lane... *sigh*

[Andreas1986xyz]

@sak0815

i think in 96 raider was already renamed into "Twix". That renaming was in the early 90s..Nevertheless 96 counts as good old times were i was really young.

[Spurz35]

@Andreas1986xyz In Scandinavia and Turkey it didnt change name before 2000.

[waldner97]

no offence waldner is the best tt player ever

[DuchDoby]

Thx for upload.Two legends of table tenis.

[olaniyi570]

3:16 is unbelievable:-)

[olaniyi570]

Waldner typically plays more in the team competition which favors his team mates (3-0 Person 1991 Worlds?) when they play him in singles but in this tournament I think, singles and Teams were seperate.

[olaniyi570]

Ooh, almost forgot that Walnder lost pretty badly to Johnny Huang in the Olympics that year:-( Also it took Waldner for ever to win this title. But better late than never.

[rosun82]

@olaniyi570 He got finger injury before the olympics

[2466257]

it's really great to see his growth and how waldner went from raw power to his legendary reading skills and becoming a myth...

[jaime2658780]

The only thing that calls my attention is the possibility of the ball touching Waldners t-shirt under his left arm when he served but you can not see it clearly in the video. Anyway I think that Persson's complaint came too late, he lost the point and then he lodged a complaint for Waldner´s service, what would happened if he had won the point; would he had done it? Waldner's next service on purpose to give Persson the point he claims for to finish their discussion is rather fair play to me.

[PrinceArt77]

can anyone tell me what were they discussing at around 1:10?

[lutove94]

@PrinceArt77 depronto fue que a waldner la bola se le corrio a la hora de hacer el servicio creo yo... o si no..depronto habia sido ned

[PrinceArt77]

@lutove94 por pavor mi amigo....no intiendez lenguahe

[lutove94]

@PrinceArt77  ¿?..no entiendo que ¿?..

[PrinceArt77]

@lutove94 me amido....si.. no entiendo aque......ana maa fahemt inta kalam hena..sho hada....ana maafi latino....inta mojnon sah.....yalah..kalewale...maas­alaema sadik

[ifkrobin]

i feel very sorry for persson, he never won a medal in the olympics. he really deserve one. and he's been coming at fourth place twice.

[lilmoesk899]

The ball control and precision shown by Waldner is what makes him so great. Hardly ever do you see players today hit shots that precise and unpredictable. Persson hustled and deserves credit for staying the game, but it seemed like he just wasn't aggressive enough.

[Opalance]

@lilmoesk899 Compared to the other great Swedes Waldner was the attacker, Persson the solid offensive player and Applegreen the allarounder.

[ajkfhj]

Thanks! Great match. A piece of art by Waldner. Persson played very well too.

[Snickarbonden]

heja waldner

[PrinceArt77]

great match between two great legends.....i love waldner and persson.....

[Galimah]

With this title he took an European grand slam. World cup, worldchamp, olympic and european single champion.

[as1r2]

I like the swedish sportsmanship look on the Chinses.

[jta9qd4778]

You mean they hang out a lot?

[QuantumStates]

These guys are like the closest of brothers to each other.

[casioet]

nice nice

[7531GECA]

Awesome,5 stars man!Thanks!

[ttCrawsaive]

Beautiful match!

I love persson's style!