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Who's the best player you have ever played.
« on: December 09, 2009, 11:24:31 PM »
I'll start this one off.

I've played
Simon Gerada - Highest ITTF World Ranking - 100
Brett Clarke - Pretty High, not sure how high. Currently Australia's Head Coach.
ANDREJZ MAKOWSKI - Highly Ranked Polish Player

Of course I got flogged by all 3.  :cry: :cry:
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2009, 03:10:56 AM »
John Hilton (european champion)
Matt Syed (commonwealth Champion)
Alan Cooke (commonwealth champion)
Des Douglas (world no6)
Gareth Herbert (Eng No1)
Eugini Braninin (Russian No4)
Gavin Rumgay (scot no1)
Paul Drinkall (Eng no1)
Lawrestas Trumpauskas (lithuanian no1)
Alex Perry (English no1)
Ramman Subramaman (Indian no1)
George Pittas (Greek no4)
Jason Sugru (Irish no1)
There is more....
 
 BTW, I beat three of them.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2009, 07:20:26 AM »
Don't even remember his name, but he played in Swedish first division. Lost 1-3, but that was my first regional league match ever, so I was still pretty pleased with the result.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2009, 09:29:20 AM »
Quote from: big ears on December 10, 2009, 03:10:56 AM
John Hilton (european champion)
Matt Syed (commonwealth Champion)
Alan Cooke (commonwealth champion)
Des Douglas (world no6)
Gareth Herbert (Eng No1)
Eugini Braninin (Russian No4)
Gavin Rumgay (scot no1)
Paul Drinkall (Eng no1)
Lawrestas Trumpauskas (lithuanian no1)
Alex Perry (English no1)
Ramman Subramaman (Indian no1)
George Pittas (Greek no4)
Jason Sugru (Irish no1)
There is more....
 
 BTW, I beat three of them.
You must have been a pretty good player back in your younger days.  :wink: Not that your to old now.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2009, 09:30:36 AM »
Quote from: speedplay on December 10, 2009, 07:20:26 AM
Don't even remember his name, but he played in Swedish first division. Lost 1-3, but that was my first regional league match ever, so I was still pretty pleased with the result.
Well Done Speedplay. How would Waldner go in his current form in your Swedish first division.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2009, 10:20:22 AM »
Since I've only just started to spread my table tennis wings, the best I have come up against so far is Brian Berry....next best, probably Jeff Dever. That probably doesn't mean anything to anyone outside Victoria!
Needless to say...I was made look like a C-grader  :embarrassed:
Cheers,
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2009, 12:10:12 PM »
Justin Huang
Geroge Tang
Paul Pinkewich
Kiet Tran
Oh Nam ho
Tang Ka Chun

Also played many other great players, but I think these are the strongest. The strongest player I've watched is Jiang Tenyi at the HK Open 2008.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2009, 12:40:58 PM »
George Tang and Pinke.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2009, 01:45:23 PM »
Last night against a guy I don't even know in a club I found a 5 minute walk from my high rise apartment. Dude used Yasaka Short pips on a Jpen, could control every spin, had excellent ability to read spin, not easily fooled, knows how to limit opponent's offense. Felt good to get 4,5,6 in the match. Guy is easily USATT 2400. Saw him do smash/retrieve drills and counterloop drills. He is probably far away from being in the Korean superleague. An indication of what I will meet eventually here with time.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2009, 07:23:22 PM »
Quote from: pingpongrob on December 10, 2009, 09:29:20 AM
You must have been a pretty good player back in your younger days.  :wink: Not that your to old now.

 I've had a long career, but have been good enough to get through groups and a few rounds, then you meet the big boys. I was definately 'in the game' against Rumgay (WR 250) only 6 months ago, I lost 3-1, but had two game points to go 2-2 and WKC says I got an edge at game point which the umpire missed. Out of my list above the player who really is quality when you play him (I have 4 times) is Alan Cooke, he's very easy to play against, but there is nowhere to hide, he constantly presents you with easy balls to hit/loop, but they all come back. He can make most players look really good.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2009, 09:39:28 PM »
Quote from: blue_smartie68 on December 10, 2009, 10:20:22 AM
Since I've only just started to spread my table tennis wings, the best I have come up against so far is Brian Berry....next best, probably Jeff Dever. That probably doesn't mean anything to anyone outside Victoria!
Needless to say...I was made look like a C-grader  :embarrassed:
Cheers,
Chris
There is a Video of Brian Berry on this Forum.
Phil Brian 123

He makes a lot of people look like C Graders, He's a 50/50 against Greg Letts

As for Geoff Dever - He's Very Hard to Play (he actually hits with his Long Pips)

And I also Forgot to Mention Paul Pinkewich & the Current Aust Vets Champ "Wayne Higginbotham (I took a single game of Him)
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2009, 10:44:45 PM »
Wayne thrashed me in August.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2009, 12:37:09 AM »
Waldner in his current form in our First division? I think he would be utterly disapointed every time he lost a set. The division that is called first division is actually only our third highest division, and Waldner, I do think he would be one of the stronger players in our top division, al though not as superior as he seems to think himself.

Forgot to mention, I have also played against one of the guys who is currently just out side the team for the world juniors, lost 1-3 to him as well.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2009, 08:51:25 AM »
Quote from: pingpongrob on December 10, 2009, 09:39:28 PM
There is a Video of Brian Berry on this Forum.
He makes a lot of people look like C Graders, He's a 50/50 against Greg Letts

Thanks Rob,
I watched that video a couple of times now and I think it's a really good example of how hard it is to judge a player's ranking from a vid.
If I hadn't have had the chance to play Brian, I would be thinking I'd be a reasonable chance against him.... He looks very casual, no intense concentration and seemed to make lots of errors!
BUT, having been thrashed by him at Croydon earlier this year...he deserves a lot of respect!!! He pretty much does what he wants in a game... it's hard to work out how, but he just seems to have total control. Against me...it was pretty much just a walk in the park for him!!
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2010, 11:42:19 AM »
Brian's style is unorthodox, but very efficient. One cannot really gauge how good a player is by watching videos, especially if they don't play "textbook" style.

Brian is one of the top Veteran players in Australia he has won the Victoria Closed Over 40 Men's Singles  7x (1996,98,99,2000,03,05,07) and the Over 50 Men's Singles  5x (2003, 05,07,08 09).... a total of 12 times.

He has also won the Victoria Open Over 40 Men's Singles 10x (1995,96, 97, 99, 2000, 03, 04, 07, 08, 09) and the Over 50 Men's Singles starting 2003 up to 2009... that's a total of 17 times.

Higginbotham of NSW though is classic, I enjoy watching him play during the Australian Veterans Open Championship. Amazingly quick and smooth.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2010, 09:56:01 PM »
Would be a toss up between Case De Bondt (who tells me he is current World O70's Champion) and Hua Hu (who is brother and coach to Commonwealth and Olympic hopeful, Hemming Hu). Hua is ex-butterfly rep'd player and plays A1 Seniors and coaches at Dandy. I'm not quite sure who would win between Hua and Case, as Case is a very tricky LP player. Hua is more of the standard loop attack game. I got 31 points versus his 66 points in a handicap match against Hua (he started minus 35 and I started minus 5). Against Case I averaged about 7 points a game in a 4 setter when I filled in A1 Masters at Dandy a year or so ago. The next closest best player I've played (that I can think of) would then be Mars63, a member of this forum.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #16 on: May 28, 2010, 11:00:33 PM »
Tong Ling.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #17 on: May 28, 2010, 11:13:55 PM »
Quote from: RebornTTEvnglist on May 28, 2010, 09:56:01 PM
Would be a toss up between Case De Bondt (who tells me he is current World O70's Champion) and Hua Hu (who is brother and coach to Commonwealth and Olympic hopeful, Hemming Hu). Hua is ex-butterfly rep'd player and plays A1 Seniors and coaches at Dandy. I'm not quite sure who would win between Hua and Case, as Case is a very tricky LP player. Hua is more of the standard loop attack game. I got 31 points versus his 66 points in a handicap match against Hua (he started minus 35 and I started minus 5). Against Case I averaged about 7 points a game in a 4 setter when I filled in A1 Masters at Dandy a year or so ago. The next closest best player I've played (that I can think of) would then be Mars63, a member of this forum.
Well I beat Case easily these days, but would struggle against Hua.  So in my opinion Hua is the better player.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #18 on: May 28, 2010, 11:14:44 PM »
Quote from: supachop on May 28, 2010, 11:00:33 PM
Tong Ling.
Gee thats a long statement. :undecided: Fill us in, who is Tong Ling ???????
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #19 on: May 29, 2010, 10:15:15 AM »
Quote from: blue_smartie68 on December 10, 2009, 10:20:22 AM
Since I've only just started to spread my table tennis wings, the best I have come up against so far is Brian Berry....next best, probably Jeff Dever. That probably doesn't mean anything to anyone outside Victoria!
Needless to say...I was made look like a C-grader  :embarrassed:
Cheers,
Chris

I have to modify this now...
After Brian, the next best would be our very own Supachop!! :tongue:
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #20 on: May 29, 2010, 06:57:16 PM »
Henzell for sure, made me look like not c grade, more like I held my first bat.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #21 on: May 29, 2010, 07:29:04 PM »
Don't be so hard on your self Boz, I actually think you played really good against him and even if you weren't able to challenge him in the match, there were some nice rallies where you were able to put pressure on him.
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Re: Who's the best player you have ever played.
« Reply #22 on: June 17, 2010, 10:38:54 AM »
Joo Se Hyuk

Kim Taek Soo

Jongeub Han ( formal Korean Olympic squad member ) who played Brian Berry, Bill Robson and Pinkie in NZ Vets and eat then alive. He beat 11-1 in the first game of the Final last year and Pinkies 1 was an edge of the first ball.

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