Japan Open 2011: Taku Takakiwa-Liu Yi

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Table Tennis: Japan Open 2011, Sat 9th July 2011, Quarterfinal Men's singles: Taku Takakiwa (JPN) - Liu Yi (CHN)
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[@mypekicks]

you are so quick, thanks for the great upload!!!

[@cllllllllll]

very exciting game, thanks a lot!

[@ytemoji]

this is the next generation of the best of world table tennis...
I guess, the new japnese players will win next few year the teamplay....
thanks

[@ttprovider]

AWESOME match! Liu Yi is fantastic. Anyone know how old he is?

[@takkyu101]

Can't wait to see Taku play Jun tonight!

[@Beeray11]

I'm glad to see a few up and coming defenders.

[@ali1baig]

@ttprovider Nice to see Liu Yi, he is very much similar to Joo Se hyuk and Hyuk-Hou Yingchao. A definsive player. he has good forehand loop as well

[@razhorblahd]

@Nightblade2222 Yeah, hope to see more of him :)

[@scylla24]

@ytchiening hmm i don't know about that..... its true to some extent, but power is still incredibly important. If you don't have power, its hard for you to present an offensive threat to your opponent. Its why a lot of the japanese players have been stuck in limbo. In order to be a really top player, you need a good combination of the three main areas of table tennis, speed, spin, and power.

[@Nightblade2222]

loves the way how he flicks and changes sides on his bat during points lol

[@razhorblahd]

@Nightblade2222 That's true, I didn't notice. I thought he may have SP on the backhand so that's why his attacking on the backhand was good. But now I see he twiddled :)

[@Yawurro]

Liu Yi moves like Koji Matsushita. Entertaining style!

[@CrawSpecificated]

Very brave to make a highlight of this long long match ;)
I don't know his age.

[@Nightblade2222]

@razhorblahd he does several times throughout the match, check 4:08, an even more obvious one is at 4:25

[@jperssonisthebest]

@JaxAkaJT ok.

[@thresholden]

Liu hits in so many awkward shots,

[@razhorblahd]

@Nightblade2222 I don't think he twiddles.

[@ytemoji]

@jsjw2 the new table tennis is you can birng the ball all times back, power is not really importent. you can see all nations of young players, they playing this styl, also the chinese. this styl was begin by waldner, persson and appelgren....

[@MrTopspin21]

I wonder who coaches Liu Yi...I know china are more than able to produce very greatly skilled choppers, but who would coach them?

[@Nightblade2222]

@razhorblahd haha yeah, he's a fast one ;)