I was there witnessing Larsen's miraculous come-back from 1 to 13 down in the second game to winning the match. This victory is a big boost to Larsen's confidence. Later that year, Larsen was to meet Dong again in the Olympics final and he beat Dong in two straight games in a commanding manner.
yep... such "miracles" actually not too rare under the old scoring rule; (not sure if anyone has statistics) but i remember another quite famous game (98 Uber Final Susi/Ye), Susi was 1:10 behind in the opening game (back then WS was 11 points) yet she caught all the way up to 9:10 (she still lost that game but Ye's winning short was a bit controversial imo; if they had hawk eye challenge the outcome could be just like this game)
I remember MANY years ago, I played against Poul-Erik. I think he was only 16-17 years old, and he was fenomenal to make this “Sidek-serve” it was almost impossible to return this serve, and after I have lost the first set, I gave up. He made 12 out of 15 point only on this serve, and as we all know, it became forbidden to do
more of these classics are always welcome!
I was there witnessing Larsen's miraculous come-back from 1 to 13 down in the second game to winning the match. This victory is a big boost to Larsen's confidence. Later that year, Larsen was to meet Dong again in the Olympics final and he beat Dong in two straight games in a commanding manner.
yep... such "miracles" actually not too rare under the old scoring rule; (not sure if anyone has statistics) but i remember another quite famous game (98 Uber Final Susi/Ye), Susi was 1:10 behind in the opening game (back then WS was 11 points) yet she caught all the way up to 9:10 (she still lost that game but Ye's winning short was a bit controversial imo; if they had hawk eye challenge the outcome could be just like this game)
I remember MANY years ago, I played against Poul-Erik. I think he was only 16-17 years old, and he was fenomenal to make this “Sidek-serve” it was almost impossible to return this serve, and after I have lost the first set, I gave up. He made 12 out of 15 point only on this serve, and as we all know, it became forbidden to do
2:20 young Peter Gade
Excuse me, what happened at 4:32, why not Dong serve?
old rules, server does not lose point when they lose the rally which they serve!
dong jiong is my dad