1987 Jiang Jialiang vs Waldner

1987 Men's Single Final Match: Jiang Jialing (China) vs J.O. Waldner (Sweden)

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• tabletennis
• pingpang
• pingpong
• Jiang
• jialiang
• waldner

[tyoungos]

Look at the supreme confidence that Jiang showed on his face during the match vs. Waldner's poker face. Jiang reminds me of Bruce Lee in fighting in his movies. With this kind of confidence, one has already won before the match even begins.

[ershun]

speed vs. spinning. but they force players to use larger pingpong balls to prevent chinese from winning. I guess some day pingpong ball will become same size of soccer ball, considering soccer ball beomes smaller and smaller.

[ProundToBeDutch]

I smashed mykeybord and ended up by this vid lol

This si what i typed or smashed injiABNG

[alfuller18]

The main reason they changed the size of the ball was for the television companies so it is easier to see!! It has nothing to do with challenging the domination of the Chinese!!

[lockwyn]

1:27 lol :D

[lildavey09]

If Jiang is like Bruce Lee then J.O. is like Chuck Norris...I think we all know who wins THAT fight.

[yobmas722]

who won?

[SSJ5VegetaV4]

@ershun Huh? How can they force a nation to use larger balls when there is a standard within the sport? Do the Chinese not have access to this ball size, I wonder? Playing with pea sized balls might give an advantage to the Chinese for all I know, but it's in no way unfair against the Chinese as it is now.

[hkjkdsifu]

@KripkeSaul Thanks for your explanation although it is totally different from what other people have said about this but it si good to have this opinion still.

[KripkeSaul]

@hkjkdsifu Ok slowly. We agree that the bigger ball decreased both spin and speed. European players played with spin whereas Chinese/Asian players had a stronger focus on speed. But it is easier to compensate speed by using harder material, this is in fact what the Chinese are doing. The older generation rarely used carbon blades but the new does. Compensating the loss of spin with the additional the ban of speed glue is very very hard.

[hkjkdsifu]

@KripkeSaul So the Chinese play speed and in increasing the size of the ball the Chinese are prevented from using their style of play and that is supposed to help the Chinese????? The Europeans play spin and that's what the bigger ball is for!!! I don't get what you're saying! Am I missing something?

[KripkeSaul]

@ershun Utter nonsense! The smaller ball first and foremost reduces spin not speed. And it is the European players that used to play with spin. Waldner himself gave an interview where he said that it is a shame that the already dominant Chinese get the advantage of a bigger ball. Of course, a bigger ball is also slower, but the deficit in speed is easier to compensate by a harder blade than the deficit in spin.