Truls Moregardh vs Marcus Johansson | 2023 Swedish National Championships 

Very interesting to see Marcus Johansson's playing style. I have never seen anything like this -- I was always told to bend my knees but apparently Marcus Johansson doesn't need to :-)

Great player Johansson...he deserves more credit than a lot of people on this forum give him I think. Can play really akward balls with antirubber and has a smoothless fh spin to score many points with despite his somewhat rightup posture

Truls is quite good against chopper bc of his unpredictability, nice match

Anti gameplay at its finest! 😍 Marcus is a beast

weird match

Very awkward player ...wud beat many players

If only at the time of the toss we could also choose to exchange our equipment with that of the opponent, that would shut the beak of many grumpy people who think that the racket is magic and that no one is holding it!

When you are playing against someone who doesn't move and doesn't have a backhand, and generally has an awkward playing style, but the moment you lose attention he suddenly strikes with a forehand that goes right through you.

Love how he was teasing the opponent 😂

Good match from Marcus.

5:59 haha, that antispin floater

Молодец Морегард, разобрался с а ля Младеновичем.

Johansson must have anti-spin or long pimple on the backhand because when he receives serve on the forehand side he will intentionally use his backhand to return the ball , making me think he needs a special rubber to return heavy spin serves otherwise he is in trouble , he has a decent forehand attack though .

Это что внебрачный брат Младенович?

what rubbers Johansson use ? long pips?

Vafan är det där för fuskgummi?

The guy that truls was playing against looks like a rookie. Doesn’t bend, doesn’t move effectively, doesn’t even twiddle the bat to have normal rubbers on both wings with the Anti or pimps as a effective surprise twiddle. This guy won’t go far with that technique. You need to have great movement and have great backhand and forehand for starters then rely on Anti or pimps as a surprise factor. He’s playing that style wrong.

What round?

Truls disrespected him so hardly

i’ve always been anti anti! disheartening rubber, makes athletes lose 56 lb weaklings.

Трулсу просто лень работать, по этой же причине он проиграл Фан Жендонгу.

I hate long pips so hard.

The reason for this apparently surprisingly equal match between one of the best players in the world and an unknown swedish opponent, is that the opponent uses pimples on the one side. This makes the return balls very unpredictable (see explanation). Thats the reason he stands so much in the left side. He can only attack and make spin with the "normal" side. The other side is so to speak more or less "dead", but has the advantage, that he doesn't have to pay so much attention to Moregårds spinny balls (as the pimples very much neutralises the spin for him). Depending on if the opponent plays with short or long pimps, he can either make some strange flying returns with not much speed (which are hard to predict and attack on), or (with long pimles) they simply turn the spin around compared to normal rubber. Another huge advantage that makes it possible for such a relatively weak player to challenge one several levels above him is, that he plays with this bat every match, whereas his opponents maybe plays against a "pimpel-player" a few times a year. Unsportsmanlike and unfair in my opinion, to give yourself such an advantage just because of the choice of unothodox materials. (PIMPLES:With the short pimples out you get less spin but more control. With the long pimples out you can get different effects and reverse the spin on the ball).

ух какая кастрированная игра получилась. Всех стекольщиков в отдельную лигу😐

wtf

Truls was obviously trolling

so one week he's almost beating the world number 1. next week struggling against someone with limited ability but has a bat that enables them to frustrate players with much higher ability. this is getting ridiculous

I never thought that Magoo would be allowed to participate in any contest at all after his shameful attempt to cheat with the orgin of the racket rubber last year.....

Good job Truls, sorry you had to play against annoying anti spin.

i hate this materialplayers, only with this they can win

Credit to Marcus, unorthadox with the anti spin ...but he played very well. Funny i saw chatting to a friend who is a looping king but only plays in division 4 our hometown of Leicester in the UK...he was bemoaning the top players with almost perfect records in the division were both using these anti-spin rubbers.🤣

Johansson clearly uses anti on BH

%1 power

It's really not easy to handle spins.

Marcus Johansson ' playing style is very curious ! It is not modern. It is outdated in high level professional competition. But it maybe the absolute champion playing style for players with much ages and for semi professional amateur players, because it require less physical streng and less athletic skill. It is interesting to watch how Marcus Johansson exploits an outdated playing style to create enough troubles and challenges to Moregardh at professional competition level. I think that once Marcus Johansson chooses this outdated playing style, he must become more actively find chances to switch to forehand strokes in any opportunities. If he can not attack from his backhand strokes, and he does not succeed to switch to forehand stroke for attack , then he should not hungry make backhand strokes when the ball is high, but he must wait for the balls to fall to low altitude (not higher than net) to make his backhand strokes to avoid create high balls again. Because when he can not attact by his backhand from high balls, then the more quickly he touches balls at high altitude with his backhand, the more he will send higher balls to his opponents : it is bad. So, if decide attack from high balls, then should try to hit the balls at high altitude. But once if decide not to attack from high balls, then should wait for the balls to fall to low altitude (not higher than the net) to hit the balls.

I would advise Mr Johansson to also attack with his backhand, he would be much more dangerous!

У очконавта хорошая техника,не хватает скорости движения,а так , красавчик, конечно!!!

Очередной гоблин-шиповик :).

Marcus my favorite 🤩🏓🏓🏓

9:15

anyone can explain why this guy just won 2 games against truls? im not smart enough to figure it out

Truls bir ara bu sporu bırakmayı düşündü...ilk kez savunma yaparken gördük...

Surprising that he didnt know how to play an Anti-Top. Again and again he expected a reverse spin.

What is Johanssons Setup???

Muls Trollegardh strikes again

Interesting

What is happening? How can Truls play an unbelievable match against Fan Zhendong and then barely winning against a random swede who no one knows?

Imagine, in football, a clearly stronger team scores a few own goals on purpose... I think everyone deserves to be taken seriously as an opponent. That game is close to "making fun of someone", sorry. Nobody wants gifts like these. Do not get me wrong. It's ok to a certain extent and nobody expects 100% effort, but losing two sets is ridiculous.

När Truls hittar på en annan variant av serve blir Han best I Världen! Det håller inte med samma samma serve hela tiden! Alla VET ju!

Is that Antispin?

What rubber is the Johanssen using for backhand?

Coming from another sport it’s very weird for me to understand why it’s ok to play with rubbers that totally change the usual physics. 😅

Thats why most tt fans dont like him. He is very disrespectful

Anti spin rubber and anti spin players are a cancer in table tennis. Those rubbers should be forbidden. Unfair and unsportman. Not any sport ! Those clown players should have allowed to play only against each other in their own competitions. I think there would be not anybody interested to watch those clown-table tennis-competitions.