Olympic Table Tennis Quarter finals today!

Photo Courtesy telegraph.co.uk

After some exciting upsets and fast paced matches, the Men's singles competition is about to proceed to the medal round right after the Quarterfinals.
The draw looks like this-
(Courtesy www.ITTF.com)

Zhang Jike scraped past Samsonov. Wang Hao is in good form. Ovtcharov seems to be the most impressive. His match against Maze will attract a lot of attention since they are pretty much close.

ZHANG Jike CHN
0   10:00 - 1/8/2012 - Table 1	-: --- ---
JIANG Tianyi HKG
OVTCHAROV Dimitrij GER
0   21:00 - 31/7/2012 - Table 1	-: --- ---
MAZE Michael DEN
CRISAN Adrian ROU
0   20:00 - 31/7/2012 - Table 1	-: --- ---
CHUANG Chih-Yuan TPE
KISHIKAWA Seiya JPN
0   11:00 - 1/8/2012 - Table 1	-: --- ---
WANG Hao CHN

Zhang Jike, Wang Hao, Ma Long or Xu Xin?

China is now in a very strange situation. They had to name 3 players for the London Olympics and after a HUGE selection process spanning more than a year, they chose World Champion Zhang Jike, Wang Hao for singles and Ma Long in addition to these two for the team events.

Now suddenly, Xu Xin, who is not even in the core team has burst into such terrific form, just losing the Korean Pro Tour by a hair's breadth (where he had a match point) and winning the China Open beating Zhang Jike and Ma Long comprehensively, thus leaving the Chinese TT management utterly confused. Remember, Table Tennis is high pressure there and their players are as famous in their country as our Cricket players. Ma Lin has fame that can rival Sachin. Any solutions?

Editor,
www.TableTennisBug.com

Olympic Champ Ryu Weds

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2004 Olympic Table Tennis Champion, Ryu Seung Min exchanged vows with Lee Yun Hee at the Renaissance Seoul Hotel recently.

Ryu has been having a relatively bad patch off late. But here's hoping that his new wife will bring good luck to his TT career.

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