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Mattias Falck (Karlsson) Sweden
Style: Shortpips FH, shakehand attacker
Blade: Yasaka Ma Lin Soft Carbon
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BH: Yasaka Pryde

Swedish player Mattias Karlsson is a male short pips forehand player, which is quite unusual today as FH pips more or less disappeared among men during the 90's. He's doing quite well and recently jumped from 6th to 3rd in the European U18 Juniors Ranking.

He shows up in three team matches and one singles match over att ITTF's itTV from the 2009 World Junior Championships.
They can be found here: http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/itTV.as ... y=ittv_New" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Some points from a match in the Swedish premier league Pingisligan. Here Karlsson (in the black shirt) is playing Kristian Karlsson (Euro Rank 7 and no relation). The match starts at about 1.22. He plays a doubles as well, starting at about 6.20.



Another couple of points against Mikael Applegren, also from Pingisligan. This is a bit of a whitewash for Karlsson (in the black shirt) and a a very nice scalp as Appelgren has one of the best won/lost records in the league. The match starts about 3.10. Again he plays the doubles starting at about 7.25.



A short clip of Karlsson (yellow and blue shirt) from the Safir tournament 2009. Only one point, but a somewhat crazy one.

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that short clip is vs Boris de Vries. he's the best dutch junior he's a great player.

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There are lots of recent vids on Mattias playing (look at itTV), and he plays in the highest leauge in Sweden, in the same team as Jörgen Persson and another very good young player from Sweden - Kristian Karlsson (#186 in the world). They are in the top of the leauge and have been that almost the whole season.

Anyhow, Mattias is currently ranked #160 in the world, and today he will play this very interesting match:

12:15 8/2/2012 Table 1 16 CHTCHETININE Evgueni BLR vs 163 KARLSSON Mattias * SWE

Since it is on table 1 it will be filmed. Very interesting to see if Mattias will have some advantage of the SP on his FH... Normally young swedes are not very good against defensive players, but I am not sure about Mattias...

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I am quite impressed that a European player uses shortpips FH. It is happy to see his match. In term of FH smash, he should learn from Zhan Jian who is the professional level of this style now. For master level, pls refer to Teng Yi and Johnny Huang.

Mattias is playing in Czech Open against Matsumoto right now!

Match from his group: http://cdn.laola1.tv/ittf/iframe/player ... heimberger

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post moved to correct section-100 apologies...

Ian

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Which equipment is he using actually? And which one is using Kristian?

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Kristian uses Clipper + Calibra LT

Mattias uses Ma Lin Soft Carbon + Rakza PO and Rakza 9

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Nice videos! Nice to see a SP hitter in action!

THANKS! I will now watch for his matches!

I think there is more of Mattias (and his teammate Kristian Karlsson) playing in highest Swedis League here: http://bambuser.com/v/3185518

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Mattias is playing in Belarus:
http://cdn.laola1.tv/ittf/iframe/player ... attias_SWE

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Mattias made it past group stage in Japan:
http://cdn.laola1.tv/ittf/iframe/player ... attias_SWE

Tomorrow he will be playing at table 1 against MORIZONO Masataka JPN

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He just beat Ovtcharov 4-2 in the swedish open. Very impressive

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Also look at his match against Koki, he played almost flawless. The match against Groth was a true nail-biter - phu...
This is sooo great for Swedish TT since it was many years ago we had a Swedish male single player in the final in our own tournament (Jörgen Persson won 1996, don't know if anyone else has been in the final since).
I hope he get's Kenta in the final, he was really good against Freitas, and he is fun to watch.

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Does he still using Yasaka Ma Lin Soft Carbon blade ?