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WTTC - Technical innovations in Chinese table tennis

SHANGHAI, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Following are technical innovations in Chinese table tennis:

From one side to two sides

The year of 1995 was a watershed in the technical development of Chinese table tennis. Since the 40th world championships in 1989 in which Swede Jan-Ove Waldner won the men's singles crown, Europeans started to accept the Chinese concept of "using forehand attacks as a major weapon, hitting the ball early and taking the initiative in offense", and witnessed the maturing of an extremely aggressive style represented by Frenchman Jean-Philippe Gatien, Belgian Jean-Michael Saive and German Jorg Rosskopf. Around 1995, ...

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