Nov 04, 2025
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After changing the game system, Sabai reached the peak of table tennis during the winter season.
Sabin is suspected of being able to feel the enthusiasm of winter, the beginning of November.This week, Frankfurt's lucrative world table tennis tournament worth half a million dollars is, after all, the champion of the competition.What the tennis player did not think: thousands of spectators will surely cheer his name in the competition in the southern French city of Montpellier a week ago.From the quarter-finals, 33 years old, and not the last Asian in the field.He Hong Kong Doo Hong Kong Doo defeated Hong Kem and Shin Yubin from South Korea and unfortunately lost 9:11 in the seventh round, against the last Chinese Wang Yidi, the French auditors loudly shouted "Sabin, Sabin".And winter smiled into the microphone: "Merci Bouaucoup!"
Sabine Winter from the Bavarian Bundesliga club TSV Dachau can be called the new anti-heroine of German table tennis.The secret of her new success lies in the so-called anti-topspin rubber, or anti-backhand for short.She started changing her game to this a year ago.Based on the smooth, frictionless surface, it first relieves the speed and rotation of the opponent with a lot of spin, and then uses its own strong rotational force.She scores a point with her forehand.In Montpellier, Winter brought several highly ranked opponents to the brink of a nervous breakdown with her new and different game.In the first two rounds, she defeated Germany's Han Ying, previously ranked first in the world, and previously ranked European Bernadette Sox from Romania.Now ranked 17th in the world, she secured the top spot for German and European players for the first time in her career.The winter season for German women's table tennis has begun.It started.
Table tennis: riding the Dutch bike to the quarterfinals of the world championship
Table tennis player Sabine Winter has made a 180-degree turn after her disappointing elimination before the Olympic Games.The 32-year-old now plays her backhand with a rare anti-topspin rubber, which is unpredictable for her opponents, and has had spectacular success with it.
Winter was the first European to reach the final of one of these world championships, and is now ranked higher in the world than at any time in her career.She wouldn't have thought about it when she changed her playing style a year ago because she was no longer improving on her previous backhand game and wanted to try something new, something bold.Of course, it takes a while before you get used to the constant changes in tempo between the fast forehand and the braking backhand.In Montpellier, she felt she had reached her fulfillment.Now comes the real match at home in Frankfurt, just 15 kilometers from their home city of Bad Soden am Taunus.“I hope this wonderful journey continues in front of the national fans,” she says.
In Frankfurt, it's up to the roof of the fruit in Japan in the second round
Four German women and six German men compete on both 32 pitches in Frankfurt's Süwag-Energie-Arena Höchst district.World number eight Benedikt Duda and up-and-coming 19-year-old Anete Kaufman could be among the crowd favourites, but Sabine Winter promises to be the biggest draw at the moment.Heavy favorite Yubin dropped a match point against China's nearly unbeatable Wang Yi to win the tournament.These are excellent prerequisites for possibly doing even better in Frankfurt.
Winter will play her first match on Thursday afternoon against 46-year-old Fu Yu of Portugal.In the second round, she will probably meet top seed Miwa Harimoto from Japan.Since the Chinese women are not there in Frankfurt, a win against Harimoto would give Winter another trip to the final.As in Montpellier, reaching the final would bring 700 points in the world ranking and $20,000 in prize money.Those are impressive numbers for Winter in her second spring.like professionals.
“Anti played a big role,” she says of her late career development.``But the fact that through Anti I rediscovered the joy of table tennis played an equally big role.'' Before the final in Montpellier, she won the European team title with the Croatian national team, while the German national team were undefeated.At the end of 2024, she had just begun her transformation into a villain, still feeling anxious and doubting her revolutionary plan.
Now he knows that changes are necessary.Although he expects his opponents to be able to defend against his game more and more effectively, he himself will continue to improve his game and has not yet reached the end of his development.The next national team will be held in Kazakhstan in 2027. A year later, the Olympic Games will be held in Los Angeles.
