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The American Grand Slam scandal! German superstar angrily criticized the venue for being too bad, so don’t do it if the grass team can’t do it?

7:40pm, 9 July 2025Football

On July 9, various unpopularities in the WTT US Grand Slam broke out continuously, and the men's national table tennis team collapsed, and four people were eliminated in 2 days. The German superstar simply criticized the organizers of the event. There was another scandal in the US Grand Slam. After a German superstar was directly eliminated, he now angrily criticized the equipment of the organizer of the game, the unreasonable environment and conditions of the game, which affected the players' performance. The multi-player national table tennis team may also be related to this situation.

Walther, a player from Germany, lost to Lilianbad in this American Grand Slam and went home in the second round. Walther angrily criticized the American Grand Slam this time, and the equipment and competition environment provided to them were in a mess. He was not worthy of holding a competition of this level. If you can do it, do it. If you can't do it, don't do it!

Walther said straight, what was the problem this time? First of all, there is a problem with the venue. The venue is a large tent and is placed in the parking lot. The competition in this venue is too hot. The German Qiu Dang had complained that the deputy hall did not even have air conditioners. In such a hot place, how can I play the deputy hall without air conditioners?

Later, he came over and angrily blew the second point. Because the tent structure in this venue was too hot, and sometimes the temperature difference between the air conditioner was too large, the ball table was seriously affected. This is the second aspect. The temperature difference between the outside and the inside was large, so the ball table was not good. The ball was too floating on the table and flew around.

Point 3, the ball table used for practice in this competition and the ball table used for competition were completely different. The ball table used for practice would significantly slow down, and when it came to the ball table used for competition, the ball began to accelerate significantly again. This table causes the ball to rebound particularly quickly, and there is no way to perform that kind of continuous pull-off, and the ball path is completely abnormal.

So Walther criticized the organizers of this competition for being too poor and having problems, and the arrangements were unreasonable. He felt that this was a very low-level organizer and could no longer bear it. During the competition, the players who came to participate in the competition directly complained and even criticized the venue problem, which shows that the venue problem this time is so serious.

And his statement is indeed consistent with Chinese players. Sun Yingsha and Wang Chuqin all talked about the situation on the table after the game. After Wang Manyu won the game, especially after winning 3:0, he had to make a special move, saying that he had prepared for difficulties before the game and increased his adaptability to the equipment of the venue for this game, because he had already thought about it in advance, the situation would be very difficult. This shows that the Chinese player is right, but we only say these things after winning the game, while the German player speaks after losing the game.

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