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WUTTO (unofficial) world championships 'standard bat' in Hilversum The Netherlands, where everybody plays with exactly the same hard bat.

This year Jan-Ove Waldner played as well as Trinko Keen and several other top Dutch players. Waldner reached the semi-finals where he lost to Marty Hendriksen. A fun match to watch.

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I personally find hardbat rallies, while longer than sponge bat rallies, to have much less personality than sponge bat rallies. In sponge bat, there are more ways to win or lose a point.
Therefore, I find hardbat less exciting to watch. How many times can you watch some guy hit a chop serve that doesn't hurt anyone?

Don't take this the wrong way, but you might use your argument to dismiss many, many different sporting competitions. For example, how many times can you watch some guy run 100 metres faster than anyone else? How many times can you watch someone bowl a tenpin bowling ball? How many times can you watch someone throw a javelin?

Any sport which limits variability in playing equipment is turning the attention on the players. Which might not be a bad thing.

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Now we need to have U.S. hardbat champion Johnard Baldonado challenge the WUTTO champion Marty Hendriksen.

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the crowd cheering equally for marty's every point whether he won it himself or got it by some unforced waldner's mistake is iritating, at least to me. otherwise good match. it seems that waldner is not hardbat master, i wonder if he even practiced a bit before tournament

Johnard Baldonado's level seems quite a but higher to me... less mistakes and more speed,

I get the feeling that for Waldner this was just a bit of fun, or perhaps a promotional thing...

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He practiced less than one hour with Trinko Keen, and played only one match before the semi.

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it was fun and promotion both, i suppose...