Mens Singles - Who's Going To win?

[Annie]

We now have the contenders Ladies and Gentlemen. I hope Dave doesn't mind but I've revamped his original Poll with the top 20 qualifiers. I will keep the votes hidden until the final outcome.

[Annie]

Other Qualifiers: -

Segun Toriola NGR
Monday Merotohun NGR
El-Sayed Lashin EGY
Suraju Saka CGO
Idir Khourta ALG
Adel Massaad EGY
Lin Ju DOMLiu Song ARG
Gustavo Tsuboi BRA
Thiago Monteiro BRA
Dexter St Louis TRI
Pablo Tabachnik ARG
Afshin Norouzi IRI
Doan Kien Quoc VIE
Ibrahim Al-Hasan KUW
Wang Liqin CHN
Kim Hyok Bong PRK
Ri Chol Guk PRK
Mizutani Jun JPN
Yoon Jae Young KOR
Kishikawa Seiya JPN
Jang Song Man PRK
Sharath Kamal Achanta IND
Tan Ruiwu CRO
Jens Lundqvist SWE
Bojan Tokic SVN
Robert Gardos AUT
Christian Suss GER
Chen Weixing AUT
Panagiotis Gionis GRE
Joao Montetro POR
Patrick Chila FRA
Christophe Legout FRA
Fedor Kuzmin RUS
Zhang Peng CAN
Pradeeban Peter-Paul CAN
David Zhuang USA
William Henzel AUS
Kyle Davis AUS
David Zalcberg AUS
Marcelo Aguirre PAR
Cheung Yuk HKG
Chiang Peng Lung TPE
Jean-Michel Saive BEL

Additional Qualifiers

Adrian Crisan ROU
Ahmed Alt Saleh EGY
Cem Zeng TUR
Damien Elot FRA
Marcos Freitas POR
Janos Jakab HUN
Aleksandar Karakasevic SRB
Mihai Bobocica ITA
Kou LeiUKRPetr Korbel CZE
Tiago Apolonia POR
Alfredo Carneros ESP
Lucjan Blaszczyk POL

[Hovis Bread Eater]

how many of the qualifiers have played in the british league

[Annie]

how many of the qualifiers have played in the british league

Perhaps once the games are over we should invite them for a game, pie and pint? :resent:

[Hovis Bread Eater]

the list is not complete, some players missing

[DaveR]

Ye me Hovis although i aint gonna beat them !

Wang Hao for me ..............

[Hovis Bread Eater]

there are two who played british league and will be at the olympics, sorry dave you aint there.

[Mr Wilko]

have they stayed in country for a while hovis ??

[Hovis Bread Eater]

one did and the other did not

[Mr Wilko]

is one wang ligin??

[Mr Wilko]

good luck to swedens Jens Lundqvist he is a quality bloke and is not shy of getting the beers in!!!!

[Hovis Bread Eater]

wang did not play british league.

One i dont think played in the top division, but is in the olympics, The other was a great player when he played in the british league.

[HarryBelafonte]

its kreanga we were there, mr watson.....

[Mr Wilko]

of course Harry "BELLY" fonte how could i forget that day at Ormesby!!!!

[Annie]

of course Harry "BELLY" fonte how could i forget that day at Ormesby!!!!

:daft:

[Mr Wilko]

:laola:

[HarryBelafonte]

sounds a bit like kettle calling....mr wobbly....:thumbsup:

[Mr Wilko]

talking about kettle's we have bought a new one today but its not black!!!!!!

anyway BELLYFonte im younger can shift it quicker!!!! ha ha ha :thtease::thtease:

[Annie]

anyway BELLYFonte im younger can shift it quicker!!!! ha ha ha :thtease::thtease:

What yer wobble? :resent:

[DrumDrum16]

Anybody heard of a certain Wang Liquin? Not a bad player guys!! Ridiculous Olympic qualification legislation meant he had to play in the qualification tournament for the games despite bing world ranked three. Surprised he wasn't in the original poll... Ok not on the same current form as Wang Hao over previous months but on his general standard makes him the best table tennis player on the planet. Three times world champion, world number one for longer than anybody else (accumalative weeks) in years... if he can hold his bottle he has got to be the real favourite for gold.

[HockeyFlash22]

Well the the Mens team final has just finished and China look unstopable. I have no idea what the draw is like for the singles but it wouldn't surprise me if China take a 1,2,3 in the Mens Open. Wang Hao is on fire right now...although I want Ma Lin to win!

The only players who have the potential to upset the chinese dominance are Timo Boll and RYU Seung Min, and in my opinion neither player are looking particularly great!

[DaveR]

Despite Timo Boll doing his best and winning a set in the singles and doubles, China won their second team table tennis gold with a score line of 3-0, this time at the downfall of second seeds Germany.

Hao Wang (CH) bt. Dimitrij Ovtcharov (GER) 3-0
Lin Ma (CH) bt. Timo Boll (GER) 3-1
Hao Wang/ Lin Ma (CH) bt. Christian Suss/ Timo Boll (GER) 3-1

Team Medals:
Gold. China
Silver. Germany
Bronze. South Korea (Korea Republic)


In a repeat of the Mean’s Team event, South Korea (Korea Republic) went out of the gold/silver play-offs and into the fight for Bronze, which they eventually won after thanks to wins over USA (3-1) and a 3-0 defeat of Japan.

In the gold/silver medal play offs it was China that was victorious as they defeated Singapore in convincing style 3-0, thanks to victories of 3-1, 3-1 and 3-0, will this be repeated when the men’s team face Germany?

Nan Wang (CHN) bt. Tianwei Feng (SIN) 3-1
Yining Zhang (CHN) bt. Jia Wei Li (SIN) 3-1
Yue Guo/Yining Zhang (CHN) bt. Yue Gu Wang/Jia Wei Li (SIN) 3-0

Gold. China
Silver. Singapore
Bronze. South Korea (Korea Republic)

[DrumDrum16]

Wang Liquin!!! storms to the semis without the loss of a single set. My money is STILL on him.

[HockeyFlash22]

Well the chinese women have done the 1,2,3 and only 42 year old Jorgen Persson stands in the way of the chinese men........

[MickM]

Wang will win ! He is the modern day star - explosive and great to watch in my opinion.

http://www.freewebs.com/tabletenniss/127290302.jpg

[Powerhouse]

Wang Hao looks to be King soon but Persson is a remarkeble story

[HockeyFlash22]

woohooo Ma Lin is the Olympic Champion!
Well happy with that!:rocker::rocker::rocker:

[DaveR]

Great performance with some great Table Tennis in the show.................powerful and touch play aswell

[Mr Wilko]

what a show by Persson :rocker::rocker:

[DaveR]

Nice to see you back Andy .........you been on your jollies?

[Mr Wilko]

no computer been broke had an nightmare with it got new modem still didnt work had to take it back into shop for them to fix it, still didnt work, eventually Louise got it sorted over phone!!!!!

well done to her, only thing is our phone bill is now around £200 !!!!! ha ha ha :taz::taz::taz::taz:

[Annie]

no computer been broke had an nightmare with it got new modem still didnt work had to take it back into shop for them to fix it, still didnt work, eventually Louise got it sorted over phone!!!!!

well done to her, only thing is our phone bill is now around £200 !!!!! ha ha ha :taz::taz::taz::taz:

You should have phoned DaveR to help, he's full of patients! :resent:

[Mr Wilko]

oh so you call it Patients then down wolves, dont think that is what we call it up north mind !!!!!!

more like summit that sounds like trap :redcard::redcard::redcard: