WINSTON BERMUDEZ
French Mastermind Adrien Mattenet, ITTF's #24; flips irreversibly our PDF, with a witty victory over Alexey Smirnov, ITTF's #23. In a tough encounter gone to five games at WTTC in Moscow, Russia 2010.
November 17, 2011 at 11:45pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU4NXedRbMo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Champions League: Werner Schlager-Marcos Freitas
November 17, 2011 at 11:45pm
The Portuguese Twin, Marcos Andrés Sousa da Silva Freitas, 1988. Better known as "Marcos Freitas", ITTF's #32, defeats one of the greatest European players. Dour Commander, academy owner and former World Champion. Austrian Werner Schlager, ITTF's #38.
November 18, 2011 at 12:11am
We have two matches ahead tonight Friday November the 18th; at 11:30 and 11:45 PM ET.
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Simon Gauzy vs Jung Hwa Seo
November 18, 2011 at 11:30pm
Never a light shone on a French player since Jean Philipe Gatien, as it does on "Simon Gauzy". Born in 1994!; currently ITTF's #140. In 2009 he was crowned European Cadet Champion, and today he holds several national titles in singles and doubles achieved since 2005. Here he gets the match vs Korean player Seo Jung Hwa, ITTF's #403; by lobbing, blocking and attacking simultaneously. A bit as Mattenet did vs Smirnov, but without the need of having any luck and with a more relaxed score.
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Joao Monteiro vs Jorgen Persson[Austrian Open 2011]
November 18, 2011 at 11:45pm
Jörgen Persson (1966, Halmstad, Sweden). Currently ITTF's #41. He is the first player to have competed at six Olympic Games, with a long record of titles. He looses here to the Portuguese ripper Joao Monteiro, 1984; ITTF's #55. Again, the new generation with mature and fully developed new tactics, displaces the establishment; as in the match between Freitas and Schlager. Basically Monteiro defeats Persson by Off Timing him with the arches he creates with Tenergy 64 and 05, showing great mobility when he is defending, pressing on Persson's backhand quite often, and placing many shots and serves to the center of the table, where the possibilities of a swing are scarce, and Persson's reach is useless.
November 18, 2011 at 11:45pm
Tonight, Saturday November the 19th, at 11:30 and 11:45 PM ET;
we will have our last two matches that will define the six players that will dispute our tournament from now on. We will not have matches on Sunday; but other information dealing with these players, their coaches, predecessors, twins and doppelgängers may pop up at any moment with relevant facts of interest. Until then, thanks for following.
we will have our last two matches that will define the six players that will dispute our tournament from now on. We will not have matches on Sunday; but other information dealing with these players, their coaches, predecessors, twins and doppelgängers may pop up at any moment with relevant facts of interest. Until then, thanks for following.
November 19, 2011 at 12:00pm
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Emmanuel Lebesson vs Ryu Seung Min[Spanish Open 2011]
November 19, 2011 at 11:30pm
This was a great match, contended to the very end. The victory Leans finally towards France's #2 Emmanuel Lebesson, ITTF's #72. A very valuable victory over South Korean penholder Ryu Seung Min, 1982 and ITTF's #15. Ryu got a Gold in singles at the Summer Olympics in 2004. An unquestionable achievement that leaves no doubt of his stature. But Lebesson; who under the coaching of Patrick Chila, joined the Club Levallois SC in 2009, and was runner up in the Senior Division of the French National Championship in 2011; wouldn't respect any records. So he sticks to his plan until the last consequences. No words can describe what he accomplished.
November 19, 2011 at 11:30pm
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Champions League: Tiago Apolonia-Roko Tosic
November 19, 2011 at 11:45pm
An skeptic Croatian, perhaps wisely. With broad strokes and explosive attacks. Roko Tosic, ITTF's #176. Displays an assortment of services that turn into a conundrum for his opponent. Used to the speed of the ball in his homeland, could prove very hard to beat at high speeds. But the Portuguese player; Tiago André Barata Feio Peixoto Apolónia, 1986. A.k.a. "Tiago Apolónia", ITTF's #42; plays it closer to the table than he usually does, in order to block and counter hit faster to Tosic's drills. Then he changes rhythms and paces down, often slowing in the middle of a point. Swinging calmly, so the ball travels longer on the racquet and sink deeper into the rubber, generating more spin and control. For he knows that speed and depth is Tosic's specialty. He is looking for an opportunity where he can have him to move out of his safe zone, which he finally gets. Complex formula but effective here. Pay attention to the shot Apolónia does on minute 04:08. I wouldn't call it luck; which on the other hand he certainly had on other points towards the end.
November 20, 2011 at 11:45pm
First of all, who is the greatest French player of all times?. Jean-Philippe Gatien was born on October 16, 1968 and started playing table tennis at the age of 5. He won the World Table Tennis Championship in 1993 in Gothenburg and the Men’s World Cup in 1994 in Taipei. Other games won by Jean-Philippe Gatien were the 1991 Mediterranean Games, the 1993 Mediterranean Games, and the Euro-Top 12 in 1997 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. In the 1991 World Cup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he finished as the runner-up. In later years, he reached the semifinals in the 1996 European Championship held at Bratislava and in the 1998 European Championship held at Eindhoven.
Jean-Philippe Gatien retired in 2004, after a satisfying career, when he defaulted in the Final World Olympic Qualification tournament in Innsbruck, Austria. In November 2006, Gatien set up a new association named ‘Ping Attitude,’ with the support of the French Table Tennis Federation and the Jean-Luc Lagardere Foundation. The ex-world champion wanted to help young people from disadvantaged districts excel in table tennis, particularly the youngsters who were having financial difficulties.
His keen interest in table tennis even after retirement was evident when he set up of the new association for training youngsters of France and molding them for the future of French table tennis. The blades Yasaka Gatien Extra, Extra 3D, Extra 3D Soft Carbon, Extra 7, and Offensive 40 were designed with the help of Gatien to suit players with different techniques.
Jean-Philippe Gatien won a silver medal in the singles event in the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. In the finals, he went down to Jan-Ove Waldner in 3 straight sets, 21-10, 21-18, and 25-23. Gatien snatched a bronze in the doubles event in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. He and his compatriot Patrick Chila beat the South Korean pair of Lee Chul-seung and Yoo Seung-min 22-20, 21-23, 21-19, and 21-10. They also overcame the Chinese pair of Wang Liqin and Yan Sen 21-19, 14-21, and 21-13 in the semifinals in the Swedish Open in November 1999 but lost to Liu Guozheng and Tan Duanwu in the finals. Jean-Philippe Gatien was a world champion, European Top 12 winner and champion of France 13 times.
At the forty-second World Championships held in Goteborg, Sweden, in 1993, Jean-Philippe Gatien became the first Frenchman to win a world men’s singles championship title. He defeated Jean-Michel Saive of Belgium in the finals in a hard fought, intense, and exciting climax. In the semifinals, Gatien defeated Primorac of Croatia in 5 thrilling games and Podpinka of Belgium in a nail-biting quarterfinal match, surviving a scare.
Michel Gadal coached Jean-Philippe Gatien between September 1979 and August 1992. Gatien later mentioned that Gadal made him understand the meaning of the word ‘training.’ It was Gadal who gave Gatien the tools that were necessary to develop the system of play of Gatien. With the training of Gadal, Gatien became strong tactically, technically, and mentally. Gatien felt he owed much of his World Champion title to Gadal and he pointed out that Gadal always remained in the background during all his successes.
Now, Jean-Philippe Gatien is busy promoting table tennis through his Ping Attitude association. He also runs a session each week at Maison de Solenn in Paris which welcomes adolescents and endeavors to offer a response to the problems they face.
As part of an experimental educational project, in first-year classes at high schools in Clichy sous Bois and Saint-Ouen, Jean-Philippe Gatien and Michel Gadal, National Technical Director of the French Table Tennis Federation, run workshops which combine sport and education, as well as an initiation to competition and an opportunity to find out about the history of the Olympic movement.
November 20, 2011 at 11:30am
Jean-Philippe Gatien Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
November 20, 2011 at 11:35am
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November 20, 2011 at 11:40am
You sure remember our player, the Portuguese ripper Joao Monteiro?. Make no mistake when we speak about the other great Portuguese iconoclast, critic and filmmaker João Cesar Monteiro. “I don’t know how to give advice, and I detest respectability,” firmly states a character in João César Monteiro’s God’s Wedding, a suitable statement from one of cinema’s greatest iconoclasts. Combining a minimal, almost reverential approach to filming everyday life with an unblinking embrace of all things erotic and obscene, Monteiro’s filmography—spanning the late 1970s to 2002—is now being recognized as one of postwar European cinema’s most intriguing and challenging.
Raised in an anti-clerical, anti-Salazar family during Portugal’s dictatorship, Monteiro worked as a film critic before turning to directing in his late thirties. Early films like Trails (1978) and Silvestre (1981) reworked Portuguese myths, culture, and history through a highly formalized approach to storytelling, while mid-career features such as Hovering over Water (1986) began questioning the very concept of cinematic narrative. With 1989’s Recollections of the Yellow House, however, Monteiro entered a world entirely his own, often compared more to literary sources like Céline, Bataille, Dostoevsky, Burroughs, and de Sade. Prostitutes, outcasts, the embittered, and the unapologetically scatological were his heroes and heroines, their “abnormal” obsessions and illicit desires chronicled against the becalmed, quiet beauty of everyday Lisbon (beyond the madness, Monteiro’s films are also about, and of, that atmospheric city). Pointedly, Monteiro treated both the workaday and the perverse with the same controlled, elegant, even holy approach, giving a leafy Lisbon park, a seedy brothel, a fish-vendor, and a collector of women’s pubic hairs the exact same wondrous, transcendental gaze, as if Carl Dreyer had returned to remake a John Waters script. Here the grotesque and the sublime go hand in hand, the intellectual and the base (by the end, it’s hard to tell which is which), all presented with the grace of an artist—and a cinema—that refuses to be anything but itself.
November 20, 2011 at 3:30pm
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Recordações da Casa Amarela (João César Monteiro, 1989)
Da "Ricordi della casa gialla"
November 20, 2011 at 3:45pm
I called Marcos Freitas the "Portuguese Twin" on our second match. It is true; he has a twin brother. Look at this line taken from his Curriculum. -Regional Men’s Doubles Champion, making double with his twin brother, Adriano Freitas (1997/1998) (Infantile) Or see for yourself. http://www.marcosfreitas.com/
Curriculum | MarcosFreitas.com
November 20, 2011 at 6:30pm
Then, we have Tiago Apolónia and again Joao Monteiro; but in Brazil there is a player whose name is "Thiago Monteiro", ITTF's #155. Look at this edit.
World Team Cup 2011: Thiago Monteiro(BRA) - Omar Assar(EGY)
World Team Cup Magedburg Germany 2011 Brasil x Egito
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November 20, 2011 at 7:00pm
Monday November the 21st 2011. Our tournament continues after this Sunday break. Our six winners will start their second round. At 4:00 PM ET; we will have France's National Champion, Adrien Mattenet.
I will see you here. Regards!
November 20, 2011 at 10:00pm
Your play could sometimes be, letting the other show his game. Like in the "Cloud". And then, you'll see yourself juxtaposed in it unavoidably; and that vision, will be your strategy. But you have to know how to read it. At the end, I cant help it but look at the wreckage.
November 21, 2011 at 4:00pm
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Adrien Mattenet vs Chuang Chih-Yuan[Pontoise Cergy/Levallois 2011]
November 21, 2011 at 4:00pm
Here we leave behind this grand opponent. Taiwanese Chuang Chih-Yuan (simplified Chinese, 庄智渊) 1981, ITTF's #14. Trained also in Germany and France; where he joined the Club Levallois SC. Therefore he combines European and Chinese techniques. Yuan, has won 31 out of 48 matches in the last year. His best year so far was 2002, when he ended as ITTF's #11 in 2003.
November 21, 2011 at 4:00pm
Tuesday November the 22nd 2011. At 1:30 AM ET. Portuguese National Champion, currently playing for the club AS Pontoise Cergy in France. Marcos Freitas!
November 21, 2011 at 8:00pm
Think about it. An established curator or critic selects an artist, and publicly says what he thinks; often bad. Why can't I do the opposite, even if I am not established?. After all you blocked me, and this PDF runs entirely on my own expense. But even if it wouldn't. Why is it wrong to see someone maneuvering in freedom, with no expectations towards you, and taking his own decisions?. So look at these players; being nice it's common, being good it's rare.
November 22, 2011 at 1:30am ·
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German League 2010: Marcos Freitas-Zhou Bin
November 22, 2011 at 1:30am
A common misunderstanding is to be impressed by the player who is blocking and lobbing several feet away from the table. When in reality that player is the one defending. In this match, both left-handers go after hitting at the bounce and taking the game at the front. But it is the Chinese player, currently unrated Zhou Bin, 1988; who really controls it by relentlessly smashing on Freitas. But Freitas defense is impossibly good, and still feels comfortable drilling at mid distance. He hits two edges and Zhou Bin leaves at least four smashes on the net. The match goes for Freitas.
Tuesday November the 22nd 2011. At 11:00 PM ET. French player Simon Gauzy.
November 22, 2011 at 1:30am
These days autonomy has no value. It does not partake in a social plan, doesn't enter in the debate for legitimacy and has no platform to be evaluated. The leverage provided by the corporation is the most desirable weapon. The individual has no value but only as part of the corporation. Because the corporation provides the only existing security, but also divides every individual interests. So outside it, there can't be collective agreement, nor collective self-confidence and therefore neither political debate.
November 22, 2011 at 11:00pm
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Simon Gauzy vs Cedric Nuytinck
November 22, 2011 at 11:00pm
Despite all the creativity of the French Cadet, Simon Gauzy. He almost drops the entire match after he looses the fourth game. Belgian player Cedric Nuytinck, ITTF's #359; looks determined and does fearless attacks on every side of the table from mid and long distance. But Gauzy can read him and is there every time, either to block, lobb or side spin his opponent's smashes. The final score is more than fair for Nuytinck, but the victory is for the French Cadet.
November 22, 2011 at 11:00pm
Today, Wednesday November the 23rd 2011. At 11:30 PM ET. Portugal's ranked #3, Europe's #24. Joao Monteiro.
November 23, 2011 at 11:30am
Criticism needs new ideas, in order to reactivate it's primordial function. And like when it's art, it doesn't matter how nettlesome it may turn. But it can't be flimsy and it can't be petrified. Just as the subject we choose, it must still be accessible from an untouched perspective; in the case that it is not pristine. That is why the dissembler wouldn't work; because it is too recurrent and a carcass in itself. At the bottom your skepticism, there was an empty form of tolerance, that beckoned to the honor, rather than the liberation.
November 23, 2011 at 11:30pm
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DTTL 2011: Tomas Pavelka vs Joao Monteiro
November 23, 2011 at 11:30pm
If less dynamic, contended and spectacular than the Cadet's match we saw previously; these are tougher players. That is why almost every point begins with a scalpel and short volleys close to the net. Where attempting an attack is much harder and require a riskier action. So every player is watching for a slightly high ball to strike first. There are preparative and definitive shots; so the short game falls in the first category, where you may notice all kinds of effects, quite often hard to decipher. If you look carefully, most services would have a third bounce on the table if they wouldn't be responded; to prevent your opponent from swinging radically on you, or simply reversing your own speed by timing effortlessly on what would otherwise could seem as too fast to be attacked. Monteiro takes the match fairly easy with a 3-0, over Czech player Tomas Pavelka; currently unrated.
Thursday November the 24th 2011. At 11:45 PM ET. Frenchman, Emmanuel Lebesson.
November 23, 2011 at 11:30pm
TONIGHT'S MATCH IS CANCELLED FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER UNTIL FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENT.
November 24, 2011 at 1:50pm
Friday November the 25th 2011. At 11:45 PM ET. We will have the match that was programmed for yesterday. France's Emmanuel Lebesson.
November 25, 2011 at 1:30pm
Sports operate as a metaphor for a number of things that we miss in the arts and the Art-World. One of these by instance, is the dialogue, at an open and competitive level. But in this case, this metaphor is also a "becoming", that involves relationships with unrelated matters situated on the same plane and carrying independently their own history. So when we place this parts together, they link up and support one another, articulating a much bigger and complex equation. Some people don't think that sports are worth of attention. They reject them because sports belong to the so-called “low” culture, in opposition to "high" culture. And there, you may find anti-intellectual passions running high that contain some sort of violence, worship and tribalism. Part of my point is to expose that these players have developed a difficult skill and polished a remarkable craft. They have learned to compete under pre-set rules, "that we don't have in the arts". They have developed a physical and psychological standpoint that gets tested every time they are at the table. One of the great things about sports, is that your main task rests in defeating your opponent; which then could translate into defeating all bureaucracy.
November 25, 2011 at 11:45pm
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European Championships 2011: Emmanuel Lebesson-Panagiotis Gionis
November 25, 2011 at 11:45pm
One of the difficulties playing Greek chopper Gionis Panagiotis, ITTF's #37. Is that he uses two very different rubbers on each side of the blade. The black side on his forehand is fast and full of spin. And the red side, on his backhand is slow, defensive and reverses every spin. Where if he receives top spin for example, he will return under spin. He normally backs off where he can set his opponent up with this feature, making it very hard to read and attack. If you don't top spin his chops and keep him at bay away from the table, he will then step in and smash with full power your innocuous return right on you. He beats many players this way. But Lebesson knows it, and does very well until he gets the match.
November 25, 2011 at 11:45pm
Tonight Saturday November the 26th 2011. At 11:45 PM ET. Portugal's ranked #2, Europe's #19. Tiago Apolónia; closes our second round.
November 26, 2011 at 5:30pm
The plain remained silent and the sun wouldn't rise. But to the north from the hill I was standing, I could hear multiple waves rising and falling. I fancied the void and scanned the horizon. In a whiplash, several torches showed up in the far, and then disappeared when reaching the creek. Hours later they popped once again. I could see they were lost. Revolting in circles, heading in every direction and changing routes at every turn. But there was a small and solid group that split from the rest and headed towards me. At dawn, I took my belongings and reached for the shore. The sand was black.
November 26, 2011 at 11:45pm
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ETTU Champions League: Tiago Apolonia - Michael Maze
November 26, 2011 at 11:45pm
Even when he starts loosing the first game, the "All Around Driver", Tiago Apolónia, returns to the match by gaining the front of the table as he did before. Which didn't seem to bother Danish "Lobber" Michael Maze, 1981, ITTF's #21, and Europe's ranked #6. Because Maze's strength lies in the far back of the table; from where his ample defense, forehand loop and lobbs have given him numerous victories. They dispute a fifth game that within a whisker, goes for Apolónia 11-9.
I have been proved as a failure in an egregious crusade, they said. And I have failed many times, because I failed in the past, and I will most likely, fail in the future. I stacked all sort of paperwork, friends and relatives came by and then left; some for good. And the answer is the same. No!. But still I persisted, just to the silence and indignation for misrepresenting the pride and ideals that in Latin America we have grown to assume. Today as for the last thirteen years, the joke continues. But then, Where is the law enforcement that will punish me for this? if after all the PDF remains unmodified. Who will extend me a fine or a summons?. Where is the constitutional right that protects our critics and curators from being lambasted in an insignificant blog?. Will they conceal their annoyance by ignoring my attempt to look into the specialist performance?. Ain't we allowed to speak of the negative truth contained in Modern Art, and by extension also Contemporary Art?. Beyond the borders of Latin America, you may perforate walls and rooftops, Jewish Stars and Christian Crosses to present them in museums as sculpture and conceptual art. Decapitate animals and show nudity at every opportunity, make a circus on Duchamp, erase drawings by de Kooning. See Hell on every corner and challenge not only the arts community, but the authority of police and entire moral and political regimes of developed countries. And here, I don't mean that in Latin America we must emulate our fellow neighbors. There are proper ways to develop our own critical strategies without leaving behind our "Immaculate Identity". But I happen to offend you by posting a non- existent ping pong tournament as my comments to a PDF.
Please Jennifer Wu, in the name of Simón Bolívar, make these people understand!.
Here we move to the second third of our Tournament, "LUIS MONSELVE". Starting Tuesday November the 29th 2011, at 11:30 PM ET. Expect Adrien Mattenet.
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NOTES.
*Monograph on João Cesar Monteiro: by Jason Sanders. Associate Films Notes Writer.
*Monograph on Jean Philippe Gatien: by Table Tennis MASTER.com
January 18 at 4:00pm
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