The Spectacular Jan Ove Waldner
| Posted in Sports | Posted on 17-09-2009
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Jan Ove Waldner
Table Tennis has been a favorite sport of mine since school days. The best thing about Table Tennis is the nature of defense and offense and how easily great players switch from one mode to the other. One of the fantastic players of the game is the great Swede Jan Ove Waldner.
The rallies can be long, delightful and hypnotic or sharp, powerful, precise and short. The melody of the bouncing ping pong ball while players limber up with counters is something relaxing. I usually close my eyes to listen to the rhythm of their strokes.
Like every sport, table tennis has some great highlights. Here is a set of spectacular points.
Two of the best table tennis players ever, having some fun. 1991 World Champion Jörgen Persson in blue, and all-time best player Jan Ove Waldner (Champion 1989 and 1997).
The sport is played with extreme seriousness and aggression and the rallies are no longer playful and elegant like this anymore. However, for me, the spirit of table tennis is in its fun and entertaining aspects. I would rather see these kind of matches than the tense , quick, sharp ones that are the norm.
This is one sport which requires the most talent the table is small the net as well as the ball , the concentration the players hav amazes me everytime i watch this .
when used to seriously follow table tennis (not playing jus watching ) there was a chinese player by the name of wang liqin im sorry he is still actively playing ranked second in the world . His defencive game is like he stands 2 m frm the table keeps sending the ball with interest he is like rafael nadal of table tennis world http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xrCQMxWMzk