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Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: bmoorebmoore Date: Aug 20, 2008 14:10
On Aug 20, 12:03Â pm, "J.Venning" wrote:
> nyx.net> wrote in message
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> news:0a68892b-f36a-4b5d-ace6-32ccb02e3097@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com...>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!
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> Â Â 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:
Yes, as I said, occasionally there is a player who can compete with
the Chinese. But the Chinese *team* as a whole blows everyone else
away.
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> 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)
> Â 2001 Wang Liqin (China)
> * 2003 W. Schlager (Austria)
> Â 2005 Wang Liqin (China)
> Â 2007 Wang Liqin (China)
>
>>The PRC players picked up that loop pretty well, too.
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> Â Â 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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