has a childish face, holding a unique and rare hexagonal shaped racket, but it is extremely fierce on the field. This is Sweden's number one men's singles Moregaard , who just turned 20 years old. On October 6, the men's 1/8 finals of the Chengdu World Table Tennis Championships team competition Sweden vs Belgium played five games in the first set. In the end, Moregaard defeated Martin Allegro 3-2, taking the lead for the Swedish team.
This year's World Table Tennis Championships team competition, the "hexagon racket" attracted more attention than Moregard's name. Moregard has distinctive technical characteristics, good service, strong ability to kill the board with the fore and backhand, and fast attack and defense connection speed. Compared with normal rackets, the special hexagonal racket is said to have increased the area of hitting the ball by up to 11% , which can bring Moregard closer to the table when hitting the ball, thus better demonstrating his technical ability.
Moregard uses "hexagonal racket". Photographer Liu Haiyun
Hexagon is said to expand the effective hitting area. Moregard's ball board comes from a famous European table tennis equipment brand and is a new product launched before the Houston World Table Tennis Championships. This ball board with a very cyberpunk style achieves the purpose of expanding the ball board " sweet area " through unequal hexagonal shape design. The sweet area is the effective hitting area of table tennis racket . It is not that the larger the area of the ball, the larger the range of the sweet area. This "punk-style" hexagonal ball is actually optimized by exaggerated appearance.
The designers of this ball board found that the best hitting area for most athletes when hitting the ball is in the upper half of the ball board, and the wide area of the hexagon extends mainly in the upper half of the ball board, so it effectively increases the horizontal sweet area of the ball board. According to data, the hexagonal racket has a 5% increase in hitting area compared to traditional ball boards, but it increases by 11% in the sweet area and a 9% increase in straight boards.
It is reported that although the ball plate is larger, the weight of this special racquet has not increased significantly. In terms of feel feedback, a more obvious feeling of pause occurs at the moment of hitting the ball. While it is compact and powerful, the ball arc is significantly longer. The batting feeling of this ball board is between an elliptical ball board and a square ball board. It is not as gentle as an elliptical board or as straight as a square board. It is more powerful in attacking and can also brake the car.
In recent years, ITTF has encouraged more personalized and fashionable elements to enter table tennis. In addition to polygon rackets, Japan also created "hand saw" rackets. The design and manufacturing party, "Table Tennis House 840" president of Hachimatsu City, Saitama Prefecture, said, "The diversity of equipment is one of the fun of table tennis."
Hand saw table tennis racket
Moregard is regarded as the "successor of old Wa" in Sweden. Waldnell I also like this up-and-coming star who is somewhat similar to when he was young. I also said that Moregard was the only Swedish young player who made him feel like a coach. In fact, Moregard's taste in the use of the ball board is also somewhat similar to the old tiles of that year. The water drop-shaped racket used by Lao Wa has a slightly longer slap body and a slightly narrower slap head, and a smaller area for hitting. The shape and characteristics of the racket are consistent with Lao Wa's playing style, which really complements each other.
Water drop shaped racket used by Waldner. According to Visual China
In addition to Lao Wa, there are several generations of experts such as the Korean team's Liu Nankui , Kim Zesoo , Liu Seung-min , and other experts. They all use square Japanese straight shots.
Liu Chengmin uses square Japanese straight shots. Photo according to IC photo
rubber is also colorful.
In the 2021 Houston World Table Tennis Championships, Moreygard became famous in one game. He participated in the men's singles competition of the World Table Tennis Championships for the first time. He won all four and seven games. He passed the hurdles and reached the final with a dark horse. He lost 0-4 to Fan Zhendong to win the runner-up.
Moregaard was born in 2002 and his enlightenment coach is his own father. His brother was once a member of the national team and often took him to play basketball. Moreygard, who was talented, soon joined a local club in Hoffmantop to learn to play.At the age of 11, Moregaard represented Sweden in the Youth Hope Competition, showing great potential and thus gained the opportunity to enter the US Ye Ruiling Table Tennis Academy for training.
Since 2019, Moregaard has been achieving success in the adult group competitions, won the third place in the European Championship, defeated Karsson in the National Championships to win the championship, and reached the final again in the World Youth Championship, losing to Chinese player Xiang Peng for the second time to win the men's singles runner-up. In the same year, Moregaard also switched to the Japanese League and joined the TT Caiyu team to compete, accumulating rich game experience.
Moregaard defeated Belgian team Martin Allegro. Photographer Liu Haiyun
In addition to the special racket, starting from the Houston World Table Tennis Championships, the ITTF allows players to use four other colors of colored rubber , including blue, green, pink and purple, hoping to attract more young people to participate in the sport.
As early as the 2019 Budapest World Table Tennis Championships, the ITTF Equipment and Equipment Committee passed a proposal for diversification of rubber colors when it held a regular meeting, and more than 75% of the participating representatives agreed to the colorful rubber plan. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, it was not until October 1, 2021 that the ITTF officially lifted the ban on colored rubber, and decided that the four colors of pink, purple, green and blue can be used on table tennis rackets. Nigerian men's singles player Aruna fights with a racket that is glued to green rubber.
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