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Edem Komlanvi   < back to Members / Profiles

Name
EDEM K KOMLANVI
USATT Rating: (current/highest)
1792/1925
Birthday
09/09/78
City/Country of Origin
Lomé-TOGO
Personal History
Master of science: Mathematical Finance ( In progress)
Bachelor of Science: Computer Engineering
Associate of Science: Industrial Electronic with PLC Technology
Other Hobbies
Soccer
Swimming( Junior Champion Togolese National Team 1992)
Movies( have seen more than 1500)
Currently/Formerly Employed With:
HMShost as a part-time supervisor        
Former Clubs
“Etoile Filante “: in 1992 Didi De Souza and I was part of this same club.
I had a chance that the coach was a relative, but I’ve never attended practice
and was more interested in swimming so did not know anything about Table Tennis until 2004.
Equipment
Blade:butterfly Timo Boll spirit/ Petr Korbel
Rubber: butterfly regular sriver/nittaku Hammond Pro α
Style
Shake hand - right handed
Memorable Matches
Took Jim McQueen to 5th game while I was 1756 and he was over 2000
TT: strength/weakness
Strengths: Quick attack, powerfully spiny, terribly wild backhand loop.
Most good players are usually afraid to visit my backhand.
Weaknesses: Hard time playing “PIPS”. Usually out of energy while playing consistent blocker
because most of my shots take a great deal of energy.
Need to work on serves, serve return and footwork.
Still have a lot of trouble with side spin
Get frustrated when things don’t workout as planned.
Common mistake people make when playing you,
Give me a serve that does not trouble me at all
Favorite shot
Backhand loop off underspin
Forehand quick flick off short side spin serve
Favorite serve
Short backspin serves on the forehand.
Comment:
Don’t get fool by reading this profile and try to learn my weaknesses.
You will be surprised how things can change. “I will give you a serious correction”.