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There are more Changes than 4.
11 Points, 40 mm Ball, lower Aspect Ratio on long pimples, no hidden services, Speed glue banned, Tuning banned, frictionless pimples banned...
Every Championship with different Team Rules.
3 against 3 with 9 single matches in 1989, 4 single one Double, 4 single one Double but one player only 2 single the other one single together double. No 4th or 5th player at Olympia to change.....
And then the big Problem, that a lot of rules cannot be controlled in lower classes because there are no official referees. No ENEZ, Tuner which cannot be reckognized , no chance in lower classes to get a right service because the referee is the friend of one player and and and...
The rules cannot be controlled at all for example some Booster. There is no official test in the Sportshall how somebody can say if the Pimple has to less friction.
Or they are not to be controlled in lower classes because there are no referees.
And for example somebody will really tested bei an ENEZ and get positiv or the referee says the friction is too less. What happens. He had to change the racket. Nothing else. Too less Control, Too less punishment_>Invitation to use VOC or frictionless prepared pimples.
I play 11 Teammatches and a few Tournaments in lower classes here last month. And I see no ENEZ and I see nobody who controle my pimples. And I have never heard in the 8 lowest classes (of 13) with I Think over 1000 Teams and over 10000 team matches that in one match there has been a control with Enez and Long pimples.
And I ask here in the TT News forum if somebody has been controled in lower classes. No answer.
No sorry. Rules which are only controled at professional tournaments show that nobody think of the base and only TT in TV is the thing which is important.
And other change which are made for TV for example the new System in the German first league brings less visitors to the matches in the Sports halls
And I cannot see that the Changes in the last years bring more people to the matches or more time in the television. the 80th we have less TV Stations in Germany but more matches will be shown in TV. A lot of European Cups or national Championships....
So a lot of changes and nothing happens!!!!
TT is not soccer and never will be. Change what you want but it will never be like that. But every change forced more players like me to say no and they do not play any longer.
Thats my opinion based on what I see und hear every day here in TT news and in the clubs where I spend every evening of the week.
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OK, I respect your opinion, but I have to disagree with you. The first time Table Tennis was on Eurosport was in 2001-2002, and this was done by the ITTF. The first non-TT major sponsor for TT was Volkswagen and Liebherr, and now China Unicom, etc. This was also done by ITTF. In 1980s we had 160 member countries, now we have 205 National Associations member of the ITTF.
A lot of the rule changes you mention are not rule changes but rule applications (boosters, tuners, etc.). And your criticism of the method of play in Teams is also not a rule change. These are different methods of playing teams. It is a variety that is great for our sport. It does not change how the player plays, a match is still a match under any system of play.
And , yes, I believe that one day TT will be as popular as Soccer. Why not? I think about that everyday. If I did not believe that, then it's better for e to stay home and sleep. It will take a long time, but we will do it. Stick around and see. believe it or not but at the Athens and Beijing Olympic Games, TT was more popular than Soccer, and this is by IOC's own statistics. So we already beat Soccer twice at the Olympics. The next step is much harder, but we will do it one day, and we must keep trying.
In any case, you are still playing and that is what matters. Now set yourself a new goal, a new challenge, and go for it. You obviously care about the sport and unfortunately your generation has suffered most of the current changes, so I apologize to you for that. But the ITTF would not be a responsible organization if we did not have a vision for the future. Changes will always affect the current generation the worst. The next generation will not be affected, just as you were not affected when Sandpaper rackets were no longer legal, or when finger-spin was banned, or when the net was lowered, or when the expedite rule was introduced, etc. I don't know how old you are, but if you were also affected by these older changes, then I double apologize to you on behalf of my predecessors.