In this issue: NEWS Review 02 Pro Tour Grand Finals 2008 News/WRL December 2007 04 01 Products of the month 05 Butterfly inside 06 Butterfly Sommercamp „Tips and Tricks“ 07 World Champion Werner Schlager Yes, we won the cup, hurray! European Champion Timo Boll has targets for this season Butterfly Inside 10 Interview with Joo Se Hyuk, South-Korea Yes, we did it. Timo Boll, the 26 year old new Borussia player showed some emotions, when he stretched his fist in the air and jumped up after beating the sensationally good Japanese, Seiya Kishikawa from the opponents SV Werder Bremen in the final match. That was the signal for the 50 fans from Borussia to start celebrating. Yes, we won the Technique Tips 12 Succesful serving - Part 2 German Club Cup, hurray! For the 18th time. Congratulations to the successful Butterfly – Team! News 16 www.butterfly-world.com Redaktion/Editor - Am Schürmannshütt 30h - D-47441 Moers - Germany - Phone: +49 2841 90532-0 - Mail: [email protected] 02 Review Pro Tour Grand Finals Good Luck Beijing Pro Tour Grand Finals 16. January - 20. January 2008 Olympic Test: Gold, Silver and Bronze for China’s Butterflies Guo and Zhang Pro Tour: Slovenian Open, Velenje The final rehearsal was successful considering the colours of the medals! About eight months before the start of the Olympic 02. February - 03. February 2008 Games the two Butterfly players Guo Yue and Zhang Yining won Europe Top 12, Frankfurt Gold, Silver and Bronze at the „Good Luck Beijing“ Pro Tour Grand Finals 2007 in Peking. The World Champion Guo Yue 24. February - 02. March 2008 could climb up the pedestal twice winning a Gold medal in the doubles but lost a bit surprisingly in six sets against her doubles World Individual Championships, partner Li Xiaoxia in the singles final. The Olympic Champion Guanzhou (CHN) Zhang Yining won a Bronze Medal in the singles for the house Tamasu. 13. March - 16. March 2008 Pro Tour. Kuwait Open, Kuwait City Against successful: Guo Yue China’s Butterflies Guo and Zhang both had to give way to their fellow countryman Li Xiaoxia, who won both 18. March - 22. March 2008 matches in six sets. It was a high class final and Guo won all her previous matches without major problems. She Pro Tour. Qatar Open, Doha beat the Japanese media star Ai Fukuhara in her first single, losing only one set. Afterwards she won 4:0 against the Hong Kong Chinese Jiang Huajun. Before her defeat against Li, Zhang Yining didn’t have any problems in beating Li Jia Wei from Singapore in the quarterfinals. One round earlier though against another Butterfly player, Hong Kong’s number one Tie Yana, she came close to losing the match when Tie could not turn a 3:1 Our Photo-Partners lead in sets into a victory. Manfred Schillings The best male Butterfly could take a sigh of relief. After injury problems during the summer and a few painful Impressum: losses against China’s top stars in autumn the number five of the World Ranking List, Timo Boll, made his Editor + Contakt presence known again just in time for announcing his medal claims for the Olympic Games. This time it wasn’t Yuki Kamizuru, 02841/90532-0 quite enough for a medal but the German top player from the Butterfly Club Borussia Duesseldorf pressed the number one seed, Ma Lin hard when he lost 4:2 in close sets at the Grand Finals. The European Champion No liability for eventual errors and who beat his club mate Dimitrij Ochtarov in the first round commented on his Olympic rehearsal: „In autumn I omissions. All prices are recommended retail prices. NEWS www.butterfly-world.com 01 2008 03 Review Pro Tour Grand Finals didn’t win a set against the top Chinese players. Now you could see that the China’s climbing star Ma Long shows and lost very closely in two of the sets. Chinese may also get into tricky situations at home. You could notice that this The Chinese host was well prepared in all aspects for this rehearsal; there were only was an important game for Ma Lin. Nearly all Chinese coaches were little details in organisation which are worth improving up to the Olympic Games. watching very carefully what was happening. The pressure on the Chinese is From the sports point of view the high expectations were fulfilled by 100% in all four now already very high and that will be even more so during the Olympics.“ main categories especially as Chinese sportsmen – and women did not lose to any opponent from a foreign nation. Not ready for Olympia at the Peking University Despite his good performance against the new title holder Boll was not so Gymnasium were the number of spectators. There is room for 8000 spectators in the happy about his missed chances in the first, fourth and sixth set: „My table tennis arena and this event was far from being sold out. During the Olympic performance was o.k. but the result could have been better. It is very Summer Games the hall is supposed to be sold out. important for me to get the feeling here in the Olympic Hall that I have a Good Luck Beijing! chance against the Chinese. Even more so if I can manage The results of the final day for Butterfly players to reach my top form until the Olympic Games in August. Women Single The important thing though is Final that the direction is right.“ Li Xiaoxia CHN - Guo Yue CHN 4:2 (5,6,-7,-7,6,9) Boll knows as well that his chances increase not only if Semi-Final his form keeps improving but Guo Yue - Guo Yan CHN 4:0 (8,4,8,4) also through the limited Li Xiaoxia - Zhang Yining CHN 4:2 (7,7,7,-3,-10,13) number of participants Splendid achievement against the new title holder: Women Doubles Timo Boll Final Guo Yue/Li Xiaoxia CHN - Park Mi Young/Kim Kyung Ah KOR 4:2 (3,7, through the IOC. Every nation is only allowed three players maximum which -8,3,-7,13) means that Boll will normally be top seeded and not meet one of the top Chinese before the semi finals. Chuan Chih-Yuan did not reach the quarterfinals in opposite to Boll. The Butterfly player from Taiwan looked a lot better than the 0:4 result against NEWS 2008 01 04 News/WRL Text to present picture series, analysis and practical help – Table Tennis ITTF World Ranking, Mens (12/2007) 3 The LuNo publisher presents in irregular succession a paper series „Picture 1 WANG Hao CHN 16 SCHLAGER Werner AUT Series, Analysis and Practical Help – Table Tennis“ with contributions about 2 MA Lin CHN 17 HOU Yingchao CHN 3 WANG Liqin CHN 18 SMIRNOV Alexei RUS higher level and variable table tennis training. 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