Last updated on 21-May-2013 10:48:21 AM
At Ping Skills we were talking about some big losses that we have encountered during our careers. We thought we'd share them here.
If you've had an enourmous loss during your Table Tennis days, then share it here for everyone. Hopefully sharing the story will help you overcome the bad memories :)
My biggest loss was in the final of the U/17 Australian National Championships. It was 1989 and I was only 14 at the time and had played remarkably well to make the final. But let's just say, I run into a much better player.
The final score:
21-4 21-9
Yep, that's right. I only won 13 points for the entire match. As you can guess it did not last very long. Luckily for me, I had managed to win the U/15's a few hours earlier and so could still manage to celebrate the tournament as a success.
We'd love to hear about some of your biggest losses, so leave a comment and tell us all about it.
in group stage of a local competition,
lost against a state player ranked 10 supposedly, i was merely a hobby beginner player at the time, just going in my first tourni.
just using the basic backhand service, i was in a pushing war. he served all these spins i could not read! [now i can from practise lol]
lost bad. 11-2 11-3 11-4 [he gave me mercy in the lastset]
During school competition, i came up against a player on the Junior Australian National Team. He was ranked like 10th in the Pacific, and you can probably guess i got killed. He was even playing around with me, tellng me which way ill hit it obviously because of his spin.
The final score was: 11-6, 11.8 and 11.9
Doesnt look bad but he was playing around though
My one of the biggest lose was in tornament in stafford against my brother in the semi final u/15 and i was 12 my brother was 14.The score was 11-5 8-11 11-4 5-11 12-14
Un lucky :-)
I remember my worst loss.I was in a tournament
and it was double elimination i had lost earlier so if I lost this game i would be out.I was playing this guy and i quickly dominated into a 10-0 lead.I soon started to crack under the pressure and kept hitting it off the table.he came back to win 12-10.
I have played against one of my best friends hundreds of times and have only won twice. We have a club at our school and he has lost less than three matches over the four months that it takes place.
The worst was when he won 37 points in a row. Definitely the most embarrassing thing to happen in my table tennis career.
Well i think its loos but maybe not.
I've been playing for three months in school we hawe 2 tables in coridors at school so i play there for about 3,4 hours a day so that comes to 21-28 hours a week and i've been chosed for a turnament small one
and gues what there were so much better players becouse they play 4 and 3 years i said oh crap i'm doomed but i was way to wrong i beated lots of them couse they thinked that i cantplay but i can i'm able to do awesome things becouse i love table tennis and i play it alot progres is unbelevible + i et help form PingSKill.com :) so there were 18 players
and i was 9 but unfortunatly last matches i lost 11-3. 11-0(FAIL) 11-9(h is right handed but was playing was left) 18-16(wow i was geat at here) and the BEST-------> 11-0 11-0 11-0 against pros
but i won some matches 5-11 15-17 and more so that fail WAS 11-0 11-0 11-0 :P well now i would get some pints :)
My biggest lose is 11-1 [oponent spared my dignity] i was about 10 and just a amateur in a tournament. My opponent just kept looping.
My Bat was not anygood either :P
£2 just a blade and long pips stuck on it :P
i won 1 match though lol
my biggest loss is 5-11
in my socity and even 1 time when i went to a tournament
those times were very bad!!!!
I don't lose.
I play at home and have not played outside of home because there aren't any organizations close enough to me for my parents to drive me. It's tough because I don't know my own level compared to people outside of my immediate family. I'm confident enough to say that I am by far much better than my family, but do not know where I stand compared to other people.
I was 14 and played the game for about 20 days in a club.Due to my age i was put in the intermediate category.So i played against a state player and won a single set.wow i was happy and all credit goes to pingskills (thanks guys, great job)
My biggest loss was with my opponent "Nikesh Powdel" who won me in-
11-2,9-11,11-3
11-0 11-3 11-1
First ever tournament match. Luckily it was a round robin
I have only played in one school tournament in my career. Im 14 and no clubs around, so I have to make the most of tournies like these. Anyway, I was up against a very good player and we played first to 7 points(because it was only the first round) and I was beat 7-3 and put out of the tournament
That was last november and since then I have discovered PINGSKILLS. Thanks to them I have now became one(if not the) best player in the school. I'm looking forward to showing everybody how much better i've become. I play everyday but not many people know how good I am. Thanks to pingskills I could win the next tourny.
i dont think ive ever lost a leg more than 11-3 against any player, and in the league i play in theres over 100 ahead of me, ive never lost a leg without gaining 3 points or more, ive won over 10, 11-0 games, i feel harsh afterwards though. at the tournament i just played in, we do handicap singles/doubles, well in the first round of the singles i had an opponent not as good as me, he had a 13-0 head start, first to 21, i won the leg 21-14, and the 2nd went his way 21-17, and i won the 3rd 21-17, so in 3 legs i won 59 points to his 13, i was really happy with that, but i wasnt going hard, i was just keeping the ball on, blocking everything early and taking no risks, nevertheless a good win i thought, still had time to smile for my friend recording it during the match lol
This might be cheating a little but my biggest loss was years ago when I played in a friendly Friday night handicap tournament in Melbourne against a guy who, at the time, was I think #5 in Australia (Kent J.). My handicap was +20, his was -30, and it was up to 31. So I needed to win 11 points, my opponent a whopping 61. And yes, you guessed it - he won. He had an incredible backhand. Mind you, I did manage to get up 28 or so by getting him with my forehand loop, which I pretty stoked about.
Hi Martin,
Kent Jamieson was a fantastic player. It would have been a great experience even though you didn't manage to get the win!
It was, Jeff. It's funny how sometimes your play can lift when playing better players. I got a bit of mileage out of
..being able to say I lost to such a good player by only 3 points. Glossed over other details about it being handicap!
I was winning 9-3. In the end I lost 10-12. Oh, the horror!
I have one game and it was a school competition. It was my first official game and I was an amateur at that time and my opponent is intermediate. The score was 21-15 21-14 in favor of him. He was not playing at his best also. I let my team down.
my biggest loss was when i was playing against a underdog,everybody expected me to win.......but i lost 2-3 and I felt like pulling my hair,then i watched Ping skills and played like a chinese drago bullying him like anything and making him cry out in my front of coach and his dad.......revenge is very sweeeeeeeet!!!!
I don't consider the losses by 5 or 6 points in each set against players much better than me to be 'big', but those where I lose to players worse than me. I once lost 11-7 12-10 to someone I should have beat easily. It was so painfully obvious to me that I was throwing that match away, making so many unforced errors and being so indifferent to it all. Nerves started to kick in just when I was leading 10-8 in the second, and yeah, that was it.
I have beaten some asome players easily killed them.!!!!! So like a fool i got to confident and thought i could be everyone and not loose the result was i got way to ahead of myself. The result was well i can't remeber the scores but got thrashed by two players that had not won for ages how embarrasing red faced badley. Still it was the best table tennis day of my life too lose to them.!!!!!!! Wanna know why.?
Answer: It taught me to shut up, not be to cockey, never under estimate any table tennis player no matter what his skill or level is. No one is invincible i learnt a big lesson by loosing to two players far below my level.
Yes i had some good wins and horrible losses. My experience. I played a guy a couple of years ago at M-SAC and i did the best powerful loops i have ever done also i attacked like never before. I was playing awsome but he had no trouble with my game he just Blocked everything back all over the table.
Right to left, left to right and when i was out of position he would hit a hard hit counter attack-drive shots for winners. Also he worked out where i was going and put the ball where i wasn't.
The result was i got tired started to make mistakes lost my confidence stoped attacking. I did not have a clue what to do next and how i should play him, so yes you guessed it i lost. I told him he was an excellent player and extremely hard to play. I had never come accross a player like him and to this day he had been the most difficult-fustrating player i have ever played.
My biggest loss happened to me when I first started playing table tennis. I was a mere beginner and I was 18 years old at the time. I was in the Boys and Girls Club and a 9 year old kid came up to me and challenged me to a game (that's right, he was only 9 years young). I already thought I was going to win because he was just a kid. Turns out he beat me 11-4 and he wasn't exactly what I thought he was. I played him again but it was painfully clear that he was the better player. Thus, I learned not to judge a book by its cover.
My biggest loss was against my mom. It happened a long long time ago, and I was very confident in my skills... She pretty much pushed everything back making me tumble all over the table. What made it worse, was that she would laugh at every point. I was using all I could, but she was just making contact and sigh. I was so dissapointed. I realized quickly that I didn't know anything about my skills, and to this day, she reminds me of that one time.
Sometimes I loose too myself and so do you. We often let our emotions get the better of us when we are playing really badly or are playing, someone really difficult. It is very hard sometimes not to let our emotions get better of us. Staying cool under pressure is sometimes hard too.
These can lead to our biggest losses. So it is very hard to stay calm when we are playing someone really difficult.
