[Tackiness]

Here is Adrian Crisan's official statement regarding the events that led to his disqualification at the German Open 2008:

“Dear readers,

I want to tell you what exactly happened in Berlin. At 9:30 in the morning, Viorel Filimon told me that my racquet is going to be tested, after which I went to check it myself. Unfortunately, the rubber was too thick and I decided to remove all the glue and assemble the racquet again. I used two extra thin layers of glue, so little that the margins of the rubber didn't even stick to the wood properly. I called Constantin Cioti who brought me his racquet from the hotel. I submitted Cioti's racquet for control and at this point I wanted to play only one point and forfeit the match in order to avoid loosing any ranking points.
After this I went to Frank Schreiner with my racquet and told him that it is not accepted and I will play with Cioti's racquet but only one point and then forfeit the match. He told me that is was my decision and asked me to give him my racquet. Because he believed that it wasn't possible that the rubber was too thick he called the director of the event, Rainer Kruschell, and asked for a control of my racquet. Then, Mr. Kruschell and the referees went to Mr.Shirakawa at Racquet Control. They came back and told me that my racquet was OK and I could play the match with it. I went to the table relaxed that my racquet is OK and I won. After the game, three referees were waiting for me and we went again to Racquet Control. Even then I wasn't worried. Unfortunately after this test the racquet was deemed illegal and that is how it has come to my disqualification.

Now, only a few questions remain:
Why was I allowed to play with my racquet and told that it was legal?
Why was only I disqualified when Boll's racquet didn't meet the thickness requirements either?

I want to thank all of you who stood by me in Berlin (our delegation, Rainer Ihle, Frank Schreiner, the other players, the 3000 spectators who applauded), Mrs. Beatrice Romanescu for the Romanian Table Tennis Federation's position on this matter, Mr. Adham Sharara for all the support he has shown, and the members of the romanian www.tenisdemasa.ro forum for showing that they care!

Adrian Crisan"

http://mytabletennis.net/forum/forum...06&PN=2#260876

Originaltext hier:
http://www.adrian-crisan.ro/