European Championships 2011 videos

The European table tennis championships 2011 or ETTU have been Live Streaming table tennis TV and lots of people have uploaded to youtube and I have compiled 3 hours of matches so far, in the playlist below you can see:

The Men's Team Final: Germany versus Sweden. My favorite match so far to watch was to see Timo Boll and Jergern Person the legends of the sport show us how it is done. Once again reaffirming that age is not a factor in being a great table tennis player. In the Boll Person match you can how most strokes are topspin loops. Boll often ends up more close to the table on the offense whilst Jorgen Person still wins a lot of long rallies away from the distance in slightly more defensive positions. One of the best of those is at 3:20. Timo wins lots of shorter points here with faster drives which are often aimed away from reach. Person plays some very nice backhand punch drives which are very fast also. 11:9 in 5th 3:1 in games.

It was a much better match than the Men's Singles Final where Patrick Baum another German couldn't deal with how spinny Timo Boll's shots were. Baum kept hitting them off the end of the table up in the air. It just shows how much far ahead Timo Boll still is to the other European players.

Men's Singles Quarter Final :: TOKIC Bojan (SVN) - OVTCHAROV Dimitrij (GER) : 4-3 = 11-8, 7-11, 11-9, 11-5, 5-11, 6-11, 12-10 showed how important the backhand is in table tennis.

The table tennis youtube video of Germany vs. Greece is from the 1/4 Quarter Final - shows some realistic table tennis: meaning it the level of play looks super human than watching the top Chinese play. Timo Boll vs Kalinikos Kreanga, Kalinikos Kreanga vs Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Panagiotis Gionis-Bastian Steger

Other videos in this european table tennis championships 2011 playlist (will list and write about all shortly):
Men's Team Final Germany Vs Sweden [game2] :: OVTCHAROV Dimitrij - GERELL Par : 3-0 # 11-5, 12-10, 11-8, 13-11
Werner Schlager vs Adrian Crisan have some of the ugliest forehand styles to see.
Liam Pitchford beats Vladimir Samsonov
The final points between Schlager and Gionis
Jörgen Persson vs. Prokopcov (Sweden vs Czech match 4).
Emmanuel Lebesson (FRA) vs. Panagiotis Gionis (GRE)
Kalinikos Kreanga vs Adrien Mattenet
Men's Team Final Germany Vs Sweden : 3-0
[game3] :: BAUM Patrick - LUNDQVIST Jens : 3-2 9-11, 9-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-7
Adrien Mattenet vs Alfredo Carneros
Russia vs. Belarus
Vladimir Samsonov vs Alexander Shibaev
Irene Ivancan vs Carole Grundish
Marcos Freitas vs Wang Zeng Yi
Men's Singles 3 Round. Adrien Mattenet-Konstantinos Lagogiannis

The top seeds in the men's team even teuropean table tennis championships 2011 are Germany, whose team includes the No 1 Timo Boll, No 3 Dimitrij Ovtcharov and No 4 Bastian Steger. The second seeds are Belarus with European No 2 Vladimir Samsonov with the French in third position and the Czechs in fourth. England are in the top division (the Championship) and play Hungary, Russia and Belarus in their opening group. Wales are i the 2nd Division (the Challenge) and play Belgium Turkey and Finland. Ireland are in the 3rd Division and play Lithuania, Switzerland, Estonia and Kosova.

The top seeds in the women's competition are the Netherlands with Roumania second, Poland third and Belarus in fourth place. England are playing in the second division (Championship) with Azerbaijan, Italy and Finland. Wales are in the same Division and play Sweden, Switzerland and Estonia.

The individual events start on Wednesday with the quarter finals of the singles being played on Saturday with the semi finals and finals on Sunday afternoon.

The top seeds in the men's singles event european table tennis championships 2011 are:

1. Timo Boll Germany

2. Vladimir Samsonov Belarus

3. Dimitrij Ovtcharov Germany

4. Bastian Steger Germany

5. Michael Maze Denmark

6. Alexey Smirnov Russia

7. Patrick Baum Germany

8. Werner Schlager Austria

The top seeds in the women's singles event european table tennis championships 2011 are:

1. Jiaduo Wu Germany

2. Jiao Li Netherlands

3. Yanfei Shen Spain

4. Viktoria Pavlovich Belarus

5. Jie Li Netherlands

6. Qian Li Poland

7.= Melek Hu Turkey

7.= Krisztina Toth Hungary