Mitsuru Kohno - Liang Geliang /1977

WTTC 1977, Birmingham
21-19, 21-14, 21-11
SEMIFINAL

World Ranking 1977:
Liang Geliang, #3
Mitsuru Kohno, #10

The only player who really played well against the Chinese players was Mitsuru Kohno of Japan and he went on to win the World Singles title. There are different views as to why Kohno won the title and it is still uncertain if he was actually allowed to win, because the Chinese had always stressed that friendship was more important than always winning and China had already won the Men's Team Championship. However, Kohno did have more opportunity of playing the Chinese players than did the Europeans in the two years before Birmingham and the Japanese coaches instructed him to listen to the different sounds when the ball hit the two sides of the Chinese player''s racket. He then interpreted these sounds into the amount of spin on the ball and therefore had more time to play his strokes than the players who waited for the ball to bounce. (Ashok Kumar)

Chinese players needed to enhance their counter abilities against topspin loops in the 1970s. The backhand block/forehand attack style for pimple-out penholders became the mainstream style. Typical examples were Xu Shaofa, Li Jingguang, and Li Zhenshi.

However, as Chinese produced fewer elite players who attacked from both sides, the Japanese stayed with this technique and produced Mitsuru Kohno, who won the men's singles title at the 34th World Championships in 1977.

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• 日本选手

[bdsamlal]

@glenngould99  What are you-a Chinese Expert? Tell me about the fairness of the rubbers the great Ge Liang, Ko Liang, Ke Liang used? Do you think those rubbers were fair?

[glenngould99]

no problem

[Tischtenniscrack95]

ohh ok

i thought that he writed it wrong

ok then sorry

[glenngould99]

no jiang is a different player - he was world champ in the 80s and a penholder. the above spelling is correct although his name was also spelt liang ke liang and liang ko liang in the past.

[Tischtenniscrack95]

i think his name is jiang jialiang