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In league / tournament play - never. Maybe I am never in the position to do it.
Casual, social games - almost always.

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Watched a couple of matches tonight where there were 11-0 games. No mercy at our club.........

Actually fair enough as the competition is close enough you don't want to be the person that loses from 10-0.

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I do give mercy points in club play.
BTW, I have also lost game 1 in club play 0-11 and gone on to win the match

This thread came to to of mind tonight. I was playing someone who has now played me 3 times. First time, while I saw he had game, he wasn't hard to throw off his game and beat him 4-0 with around 5's per game. Second time he got much harder and I really had to fight to overcome him. Tonight, I got the first game 11-6 but I really had to fight for very point. I even wondered if tonight would be the night he got me. 2nd game he took me 11-7 and my fears felt justified. Third game, I just overcame him 11-9 and was relieved not to be 2-1 down instead. 4th game and to my astonishment I worked my way out to 5-0 as he made errors in his loops he'd not made...so I pushed my luck and kept changing things around on him so he couldn't find a foothold....suddenly I was 10-0 up. This thread ran through my head...what to do? I decided to just let fate play the hand. I didn't go for an obviously over-zealous attack, I just rallied until a limited attacking opportunity presented itself and I went the smash on it....clipped the back edge of the table,he had no hope to hit it. 11-0! Oh well! I apologised to him, and he was very cool about it. Then he came on strong again in the next game. I played some of the best pip attacks I've ever played in one set as he went all out aggressive on me. At 10-9 up his way he hit a powerloop down my BH side that I just reflexively blocked and it bulleted back down the table and all he could do was spectate as he finished his loop action (god, I love those kind of blocks). We went through the deuce and I won the point at 13-12 with a crosscourt (FH side to FH side) pip chicken wing drive that was too quick for him to cover and took me to 14-12.

The 11-0 was not spoken of again as we shook hands He simply acknowledged I'd outplayed him once again. Then I played his lefty partner, who I used to always beat....and got a towelling 4-0 handed to me (including an 11-2), which was his best punishment he could dish me for doing an 11-0 on his teammate It was all in good spirit though.

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I always give one, usually a serve into the net.

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Fan Zhendong gave one in the semi-final today (WTTC).

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Reasons for not giving a mercy point:

It is artificial therefore meaningless.

Low scoring games are interesting statistically, so giving a point messes it up.

The low scorer would not feel right making a comeback after being given a point, so it turns the game into first to ten points ... which now I think of it, is not so bad. Why not award a game if someone gets to say 7 points while the opponent is on 0. Nearly anything would be an improvement on the current way of scoring table tennis.

Btw,

Rather than mercy point, I prefer for the smaller score to give the point for the audience. Something like what they do in Gilbert Cup for example.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rOg0-4ltLIM

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It is a golden rule with the team I play for,if your 10-0 up serve off the table or into the net,personally don`t agree with it I once lost from 10-3 up

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I really felt for Lee Sangsu when FZD gave him one at 3-0 in games, 10-0 in the World Championship semi-final. You can see it's a kind gesture from FZD in one way but it's also somehow incredibly insulting.

I'm sure that Lee Sangsu would have expected it, and that FZD would not have considered not doing it. He had just taken the guy's game apart, but was, in his terms, showing respect for his ability and performance in the tournament. Both of them knew the game was over well before that point.

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