How nice to see a new face in this championship, he really deserves to clinch the title, he beat Adrien Mattenet, the best-ranked player in the ITTF rankings, Simon Gauzy who recently clinched the U21 World Pro Tour title (against Patrick Franziska) and Christophe Legout whose glorious past speaks for itself. It's refreshing to see a player with an original style, combining chops, mid-distance game and a mastery of trickery. Most likely he will be part of the crew participating in the World Team Table Tennis Championship and that's good news!
That's true indeed. Patrick Chila was fond of this style and as you can see Legout does chop in defensive position as well. It's less frequent nowadays though, Simon Gauzy must be the only one to chop sometimes, and he only slices the ball when he receives it after a service in order to bring some variety and discomfort to the opponent. To his credit, It works most of the time, the opponent usually takes the ball into the net or even off the table. Nice to see there's a continuation to this "tradition" thanks to Stephane Ouaiche :)
![Simon Gauzy Vs Stéphane Ouaiche: 1/2 Final [France Championships 2014]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FPXpGiqsWOA/mqdefault.jpg)
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How nice to see a new face in this championship, he really deserves to clinch the title, he beat Adrien Mattenet, the best-ranked player in the ITTF rankings, Simon Gauzy who recently clinched the U21 World Pro Tour title (against Patrick Franziska) and Christophe Legout whose glorious past speaks for itself.
It's refreshing to see a player with an original style, combining chops, mid-distance game and a mastery of trickery. Most likely he will be part of the crew participating in the World Team Table Tennis Championship and that's good news!
+cuninou But where is he now? He was not in Kuala Lumpur fot the last WTTC, was he?
Amazing performance from both players, chops and side spin, pretty crazy!!
6:04 fantastique ;)
c'est juste splendide!!!!
Me alegro mucho por el ganador, 14 del ranking salvando dos bolas de partido en semis y ganando el campeonato en una brillante final, ENORME!
french style at its best. topspins n chops.
That's true indeed. Patrick Chila was fond of this style and as you can see Legout does chop in defensive position as well. It's less frequent nowadays though, Simon Gauzy must be the only one to chop sometimes, and he only slices the ball when he receives it after a service in order to bring some variety and discomfort to the opponent. To his credit, It works most of the time, the opponent usually takes the ball into the net or even off the table.
Nice to see there's a continuation to this "tradition" thanks to Stephane Ouaiche :)
Fantastic match!
More interesting than match between chinese masters..
incroyable
Double sound
Very weird final as both are lefty. That what made it interesting too I guess.
Ces commentateurs français sont enormes :P mdr
What rubbers is Stéphane using? They sound hollow.
I heard he is using Rasant from Andro .
Biffle Sauvage
I heard the same, Rasant Powersponge both sides on a Trieber Z ;)
Who....nice, he beat both Matinet and Legout. Is to early to call Stéphane Ouaiche the best player in the world as of now?
Quentin robinot is best french player
Interesting game but a lot of improvement is needed inorder to beat the chinese. But was good to watch.
Mais tais toi mdrrr