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Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: J.VenningJ.Venning Date: Aug 20, 2008 12:03
>Yeah, yeah, but obviously I'm not talking about tournaments where the PRC
>didn't even play! I'm talking about more recently. Do I have to spell out
>every detail? Sheesh!
>
O.K., let's take a look at that list again. From 1961, when Zhuang
became World Champion, there were 11 (eleven) World Champions in the men's
singles who weren't Chinese:
1961 Zhuang Zedong (China)
1963 Zhuang Zedong (China)
1965 Zhuang Zedong (China)
*1967 Hasegawa N. (Japan)
*1969 Ito S. (Japan)
*1971 S. Bengtsson (Swed.)
1973 Xi Ending (China)
*1975 I. Jonyer (Hung.)
*1977 Kono M. (Japan)
*1979 Ono S. (Japan)
1981 Guo Yuehua (China)
1983 Guo Yuehua (China)
1985 Jiang Jialiang (China)
1987 Jiang Jialiang (China)
*1989 J.-O. Waldner (Swed.)
*1991 J. Persson (Swed.)
*1993 J.-P. Gatien (Fr.)
1995 Kong Linghui (China)
*1997 J.-O. Waldner (Swed.)
1999 Liu Guoliang (China)
2001 Wang Liqin (China)
* 2003 W. Schlager (Austria)
2005 Wang Liqin (China)
2007 Wang Liqin (China)
>The PRC players picked up that loop pretty well, too.
>
You bet. I saw the 1979 tournament in the men's singles, when Guo was
using it to drive his opponents crazy, but was faulted in his serves by the
umpire, and gave the title away to Ono.
J.
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